Why this blog exists
I build How Are You?! — a safety-critical Android app that quietly watches an elderly parent's phone 24/7 and emails their family if something looks wrong. Working on it surfaces a steady stream of stories: OEMs that quietly kill background services, a bug that hid for 21 hours, an AI prompt that learned the wrong thing, an OTA that wiped six months of careful permission setup in a single night.
Some of these I post on the usual platforms. Many I don't. Every platform I've tried rewards seniority — how long you've been there, how many followers, how well you play the algorithm — over whether what you wrote is worth reading. Something written this week, by someone the system doesn't recognise yet, doesn't compete on equal footing with content that has neither more insight nor more truth in it.
So this is the unfiltered version. A place where I share experience, thoughts, disappointments, successes, and technical advice from building How Are You?! — without anyone deciding it's too technical, too venting, or too boring before it reaches you. Long, short, niche, useful, useless. If something isn't for you, scroll. If it is, glad it found you.
— Stoyan