What do you need for UCP? There are two levels of UCP readiness. The first is the minimum viable manifest — the bare requirements to pass validation and appear in the UCP directory. The second is the agent-ready setup — what it actually takes for an AI agent to browse, cart, and check out at your store without friction. Think of this as your UCP checklist — the minimum requirements plus the recomm
Why This Topic Matters OTP (One-Time Password) verification is a critical security feature in modern mobile applications. Whether you're building a fintech app, healthcare platform, or any service requiring user authentication, implementing OTP verification efficiently can be the difference between a smooth user experience and frustrated users abandoning your app. The react-native-otp-auto-verif
How I Built a Bitcoin-Only Digital Store (No Stripe, No PayPal) What happened when I deleted my payment processor and embraced financial sovereignty I still remember the day Stripe froze my account. A client disputed a $200 payment and before I could even respond, my entire balance was locked. Three weeks of emails. Two verification requests. And ultimately, a 30-day hold while they "investigate
Introduction Building a mobile application that handles sensitive financial data — crypto transactions, KYC verification, gift cards — means security is not an afterthought. It is a core deliverable. During the development of a cross-platform fintech application, one of the non-negotiables on the security checklist was runtime application self-protection (RASP). After evaluating our options, we
React Native's New Architecture — JSI, Fabric, and TurboModules — has been "coming soon" for long enough that some teams wrote it off as vaporware. It shipped. It is now default in new React Native projects. And it meaningfully changes how the framework works at the performance-critical boundaries between JavaScript and native code. This post is not a getting-started guide. It is an honest account
It's a one-line item on the roadmap. "Send a push notification when X happens." Estimate is two days, three if the backend doesn't have FCM credentials yet. There's a library for it. The library is the visible part. The other 90% is platform lifecycle, registration state machines, race conditions with navigation, payload archaeology, and a half-dozen iOS and Android quirks. Nobody writes them down
"OK, I understand the RPS formula. But is our RPS — actually — high or low compared to our industry?" Right after I published the RPS-definition guide last week, this was the most common question I got back from EC operators. They want to know where they sit, not just how to compute the number. Knowing your RPS is $1.20 means nothing if you don't know whether that's the industry median, the top qu
I run a flower shop in Munich and recently migrated my entire e-commerce setup to Medusa v2. The shop, the One thing that was completely missing: a connection to Lexware Office, which is the most popular accounting software So I built LexBridge - an open-source Medusa v2 plugin that automates the entire invoicing workflow. What it does When a customer places an order, the plugin: Looks up the cust