My browser-only analytics dashboard now reads Google Play Console reports alongside Search Console and App Store Connect. The preset design held up, but UTF-16 files and earnings rows that aren't sales taught me a few things.
I turned my Astro portfolio into the Yongchivo brand: an animated bubble home page, a top bar instead of a sidebar, a page for every project, a full Spanish version — and every animation in plain CSS, with reduced motion respected and the CSP left untouched.
Before submitting PHV Prep UK 1.7.3, I corrected two statements in the app's privacy policy: a consent mechanism the app never had, and crash data it never collected.
What change management actually looks like when you're a solo developer, your product is a database, and every edit is a deployment.
PHV Prep UK is now live on Android and iOS — exam prep for the Wolverhampton PHV test, with 300+ questions, timed mock exams and an AI Tutor.
PHV Prep UK has started its 14-day Google Play closed test. If all goes well, the Android version launches on 18 August 2026.
The Android version of PHV Prep UK is finished. We need 12 testers to unlock the Play Store launch — join the beta and get free full access.
I built a file converter at yongchivo.com/convert that runs 100% in the browser — images, data formats, PDF, audio and video, all converted on-device with WebAssembly. Nothing is ever uploaded. Here's the architecture, the trade-offs, and what I learned.
I just shipped a hub of six free cybersecurity tools — built with Astro and Cloudflare Workers, with Claude Code as my only development hands. Here's what's live, an SSRF hardening story, a real secret-leak-and-rotation incident, and the day my own tool gave my own site an F.
PHV Prep UK is in closed beta on Android. Join the tester group, opt in, and install it from the Play Store.
