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●SDK58 — The Expo SDK 58 beta is open. It ships the React Native 0.88 release candidate, and the beta period is stated as three to four weeks●11/01 — For anyone who requested an extension, Google Play's target API deadline lands on November 1. Forty-four days out●EASENV — A long-open report: secrets handed to a local build arrive as the literal variable name rather than its value, and the damage surfaces much later●NEW — The replacement the table recommended had already shut down. A record of reconciling all 74 rows of the deprecation list●UISCENE — iOS 27 requires the new scene lifecycle. SDK 57 makes it something you opt into; it only becomes the default in 58●CREDIT — What "AI errors don't cost credits" actually covers becomes clear once you record a day of asking for the same fix more than once●SDK58 — The Expo SDK 58 beta is open. It ships the React Native 0.88 release candidate, and the beta period is stated as three to four weeks●11/01 — For anyone who requested an extension, Google Play's target API deadline lands on November 1. Forty-four days out●EASENV — A long-open report: secrets handed to a local build arrive as the literal variable name rather than its value, and the damage surfaces much later●NEW — The replacement the table recommended had already shut down. A record of reconciling all 74 rows of the deprecation list●UISCENE — iOS 27 requires the new scene lifecycle. SDK 57 makes it something you opt into; it only becomes the default in 58●CREDIT — What "AI errors don't cost credits" actually covers becomes clear once you record a day of asking for the same fix more than once
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⬡ Rork Dev/2026-09-06Intermediate

There is no --json on eas env:list, so I rebuilt my environment variable inventory

eas env:list does not accept a --json flag. Here is how I turn --format short output into safe JSON, and how I spot a missing variable across three environments in one line.

⬡ Rork Dev/2026-09-02Intermediate

I counted how many versions expo install starts recommending after one patch bump

What expo install recommends is tied to the patch version of expo itself. I measured the ledger diff against the npm registry, how far npm install drifts, and the one check worth adding to a generated project.

◇ App Dev/2026-07-31Advanced

My generated wallpaper catalog hashed differently on every run — isolating five sources of nondeterminism

The same image folder refused to produce the same catalog.json twice. Directory enumeration order, JSON.stringify key reordering, collation, Unicode normalization, and async completion order — measured one at a time across 1,225 files until the output settled on a single hash.

⬡ Rork Dev/2026-07-30Advanced

What Renovate may bump in an Expo app, and what it must never touch

Turning on automated dependency updates in a Rork-generated app also hands Renovate the 123 packages Expo SDK 57 pins. Measured on 2026-07-30, six of them sit a full major version behind npm latest. Here is how to generate the ignore list from the SDK instead of maintaining it by hand.

⬡ Rork Dev/2026-07-09Advanced

Holding Layer Boundaries in a Rork-Generated Expo App with ESLint and dependency-cruiser

Long-lived Rork-generated Expo apps quietly accumulate screens that import the API client directly. Here is how I froze 214 existing violations as a baseline, eliminated 17 circular dependencies, and made CI reject anything new for 38 extra seconds.

◇ App Dev/2026-06-25Advanced

Why Untranslated Strings Leak to Production Every Time You Add a Language — A Catalog and Gap-Detection Design for Rork (Expo) Apps

A design for stopping untranslated strings from leaking into production after you localize a Rork-generated Expo app. Covers a single source-of-truth catalog, CI-based missing/extra key detection, explicit fallback chains, plurals, and pseudolocalization for layout — with implementation.

⬡ Rork Dev/2026-06-19Intermediate

Before You Burn Out Hand-Testing Every Release: Automate Your Rork App's Critical Flows with Maestro

With Rork, a prompt that fixes one screen can quietly break another. Here is how I automate the revenue-critical path from launch to paywall using Maestro and run it in CI, including the spots where I got stuck as an indie developer.