Category · 4 articles
Engineering
September 11, 2026
Five Bugs From Shipping an Android App Google Play Will Never List
The bugs that cost us the most time this week all had one thing in common: nothing crashed, nothing logged an error, and the thing that looked broken was never the thing that was broken.
May 29, 2026
Why YouTube Downloads Actually Fail in 2026 — The Top 10 Causes, Ranked
We tracked failed YouTube downloads for several months. The reasons cluster into a small number of categories — and the ranking isn't what most people guess.
May 27, 2026
YouTube's Anti-Bot Has Quietly Become a Full-Stack Adversary in 2026
How YouTube's anti-bot moved from "sign in to verify" prompts to a full-stack signal mesh — and what every downloader has had to adapt to in the last two years.
May 26, 2026
What I Learned Building a YouTube Downloader From a $4 VPS
A small VPS, a Go API, a Next.js frontend, and a few thousand lines of in-browser muxing code. Here's what I learned shipping a YouTube downloader on a budget — including the mistakes I'd unmake if I started over.