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Practical notes on iOS, Android, web, ML, and DevOps — alongside technology news from our 2021–2022 archive.
Sign in with Apple, background location, and in-app purchase rules keep causing rejections — even for teams that have shipped dozens of apps. Here's what actually gets flagged.
Shared logic, shared UI and platform boundaries: how to evaluate Kotlin Multiplatform for your product.
The right question isn't "which is better" — it's how many different clients need overlapping-but-different shapes of the same data.
Training/serving skew, silent data drift, and unowned retraining pipelines — the ordinary cost of running ML as a real product feature.
Right-sizing, targeted Spot usage, traffic-shaped autoscaling, and storage tiering — a practical cost review
The useful question isn't "build or buy" — it's which work benefits from deep institutional knowledge, and which is well-scoped and time-bound.
View updates, stable collection identity and the cost of creating views — three areas to investigate with profiling tools.
Environment drift, poorly-keyed caches, tests skipped under pressure, and no fast rollback path — checks to make before your next release.
The original November 2022 explainer introduced three terms often grouped together under artificial intelligence: narrow AI, general AI and superintelligence. They describe different levels of capability, rather than three interchangeable labels for the same technology.
Our October 2022 industry overview looked at five areas exploring machine learning: healthcare, transport, finance, retail and property valuation. Each used prediction or pattern recognition, but with very different data and consequences for mistakes.
The October 2022 archive explored how computer-aided systems could support clinicians by organising images, records and monitoring data. Its central theme was assistance with information-heavy work, with diagnosis and treatment remaining clinical responsibilities.
Ayming’s International Innovation Barometer 2022, covered on the old site in October 2021, described an uneven response to the pandemic. Some businesses accelerated new ways of working while others struggled to maintain research and development.