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Refactors with the numbers attached. Architecture decisions that never made it into a slide deck. The bumps along the way and what they teach you to look for next time.

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April 28, 20265 min read

Our Flutter app started in 7 seconds. The fix wasn't to make it faster.

How we went from 7.4s cold start to 294ms — by removing scaffolding instead of optimizing code. A story about the wrong plan, five bumps along the way, and what we learned to look for next time.

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How a feature rotted in plain sight for six months — and the 17 lines that brought it back
How a frontend migration silently dropped 22 of 24 user rankings, a routine cleanup made the lie audible, and what it taught me about caches that quietly tell you what you want to hear.
May 14, 2026

Our Flutter app started in 7 seconds. The fix wasn't to make it faster.

How a feature rotted in plain sight for six months — and the 17 lines that brought it back