https://steekam.me/ Field notes from Kamau Wanyee on building reliable products with React Native, TypeScript, and backend systems. en Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://steekam.me/the-exception-is-the-work/ https://steekam.me/the-exception-is-the-work/ When systems disagree about a claim, show the evidence, assign the next action, and record how the case was resolved. Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kamau Wanyee operations evidence business intelligence audit workflow automation vertical software systems-design compliance vertical-software https://steekam.me/reviewing-agent-assisted-technical-work/ https://steekam.me/reviewing-agent-assisted-technical-work/ A verification loop captures an agent’s change, the checks behind it, what remains unknown, and the next action. Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kamau Wanyee agents posts research https://steekam.me/using-cli-tools-for-reproducible-research-workflows/ https://steekam.me/using-cli-tools-for-reproducible-research-workflows/ A CLI workflow stores normalized run results in Parquet and queries them locally with DuckDB. Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kamau Wanyee posts research cli data https://steekam.me/scrolling-to-a-field-that-does-not-exist-yet/ https://steekam.me/scrolling-to-a-field-that-does-not-exist-yet/ A reliable field jump finds the control, waits for it to render, scrolls, retries, and cancels cleanly. Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kamau Wanyee mobile performance interaction-design posts react-native virtualization https://steekam.me/react-query-is-not-your-offline-database/ https://steekam.me/react-query-is-not-your-offline-database/ React Query is a hot memory cache. MMKV holds the durable snapshot, while initialData connects offline storage to a fresh query session. Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kamau Wanyee offline-first mobile architecture posts react-query mmkv react-native https://steekam.me/sad-i-had-to-kill-a-technically-cool-feature/ https://steekam.me/sad-i-had-to-kill-a-technically-cool-feature/ I built a native LiveKit extension whose capture design worked and was satisfying to solve. Then pilot use showed that the feature no longer earned its place on the critical path. Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kamau Wanyee mobile reliability architecture posts react-native https://steekam.me/recording-is-a-distributed-system/ https://steekam.me/recording-is-a-distributed-system/ A phone recording crosses the operating system, native audio, disk, and network. Durable segments and server-side repair protect work a user cannot recreate. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kamau Wanyee reliability mobile posts react-native https://steekam.me/offline-queues-that-dont-lie/ https://steekam.me/offline-queues-that-dont-lie/ Save each task and its checkpoints so retries can resume unfinished work without clearing it. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kamau Wanyee offline-first reliability posts mobile systems https://steekam.me/state-machines-for-messy-human-workflows/ https://steekam.me/state-machines-for-messy-human-workflows/ Make retries, interruptions, and handoffs visible in a mobile workflow, from network loss to final submission. Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kamau Wanyee reliability mobile architecture posts notes react-native https://steekam.me/a-love-letter-to-react-native-audio-api/ https://steekam.me/a-love-letter-to-react-native-audio-api/ Lower-level mobile audio APIs expose interruptions, routes, and PCM buffers so a recorder can detect failures and recover. Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kamau Wanyee react-native reliability posts audio recording open-source https://steekam.me/batching-graphql-field-resolvers-with-one-microtask/ https://steekam.me/batching-graphql-field-resolvers-with-one-microtask/ Twenty sibling GraphQL fields call load() one after another in the same JavaScript turn. Dispatch immediately and you get twenty downstream requests. Schedule… Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Kamau Wanyee performance event-loop nodejs posts graphql https://steekam.me/guide-to-navigating-your-career-as-a-frontend-engineer/ https://steekam.me/guide-to-navigating-your-career-as-a-frontend-engineer/ This is an essay like version of my presentation at Rendercon Kenya 2023 - Before diving into anything, figure out your learning style and how to learn… Tue, 19 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT Kamau Wanyee career programming conferences sessions events posts https://steekam.me/i-tried-pair-programming/ https://steekam.me/i-tried-pair-programming/ I recently completed my undergrad and had some free time on my hands as I applied for jobs. I was a little bit low on motivation to work on side projects or… Wed, 31 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT Kamau Wanyee programming pair-programming community https://steekam.me/deploying-laravel-applications-to-a-shared-server-using-github-actions/ https://steekam.me/deploying-laravel-applications-to-a-shared-server-using-github-actions/ I recently worked on a project where the staging server was on a shared hosting plan with users having very limited privileges. At the time I would push… Sun, 20 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT Kamau Wanyee github-actions programming posts