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⬡ Rork Dev/2026-07-08Advanced

When the Device Runs Out of Space, What Should Your App Protect?

Design Expo/React Native apps that assume writes can fail. Free-space budgets, LRU reclaim, data-protection tiers, and telemetry that surfaces silent failures — drawn from running six wallpaper apps.

⬡ Rork Dev/2026-06-12Intermediate

Your Rork App's 'Documents & Data' Keeps Growing — Taming expo-image's Disk Cache

My wallpaper app's binary was 40 MB, yet 'Documents & Data' had ballooned to 2.4 GB. Here is how I diagnosed expo-image's unbounded disk cache and fixed it with cachePolicy tuning, thumbnail URLs, and generational cache clearing.

⬡ Rork Dev/2026-05-28Intermediate

Three Weeks of Moving Six Wallpaper Apps from AsyncStorage to MMKV in Rork

Notes from three weeks of gradually moving six wallpaper apps from AsyncStorage to react-native-mmkv. Personal write-up from an indie developer who has been shipping iOS and Android apps since 2014.

⬡ Rork Dev/2026-05-13Intermediate

Supabase Storage Returns 403 After Image Upload in Rork Apps ─ Fixing RLS Policies and Bucket Settings

Uploaded an image to Supabase Storage in your Rork app, but the URL returns 403 Forbidden? This guide covers the three most common causes: bucket Public/Private settings, missing RLS SELECT policies, and the getPublicUrl vs createSignedUrl confusion — with working code examples.