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4 articles · 4 topics · 8 min of reading
4 articles
Building Offline-First: How Law Buddy Works Without Internet
Most legal info apps assume a stable connection. Law Buddy was built for Uganda's reality — offline-capable, fast, and accessible to anyone with a mid-range Android.
CASE STUDYBuilding a 4-Step Booking Flow in Plain HTML/CSS/JS: The Velour Salon Case Study
A technical assessment build for a salon booking site — no framework, no build step, just fast, accessible, 93+ Lighthouse HTML/CSS/JS with a live calendar and WhatsApp confirmation.
3 min- ARCHITECTURE
Designing Offline-Resilient Payment & Sync Architectures for Emerging Markets
How to handle spotty 3G, intermittent mobile money webhooks, and local database conflict resolution when building payment-adjacent systems in East Africa.
2 min - PERFORMANCE
Zero-Bundle Analytics: Privacy-First Event Logging at the Edge
Ditching bulky third-party tracking scripts in favor of lightweight Cloudflare edge worker ingestion to keep client bundles under 50KB.
1 min
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