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Engineering Notes
Practical lessons from building and maintaining real-world Ionic, Angular, Capacitor, Cloudflare, and open-source projects.
Some articles are reviewed English editions of work originally published in Japanese on Zenn and note.
September 2026
- From Zenn
From Capacitor to Brother Printers: Official Bluetooth Support in v8.2.0
Brother Print v8.2.0 fixes the iOS Bluetooth discovery crash, corrects Android permissions, and adds optional printer filtering and SDK-free regression tests.
- From Zenn
Making Ionic Themes Easier to Override: Rethinking !important and Shadow Parts in v9.1.0
How v9.1.0 of the iOS 26 and Material Design 3 themes makes Ionic styles easier to override by reducing !important, preferring public CSS custom properties, and fixing grouped Inset Lists.
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I Was Ready to Move Everything to OSS Models on Cloudflare Workers AI—Then the Benchmarks Said No
A production-shaped benchmark of seven OSS models on Workers AI against GPT-5.2, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Claude Haiku 4.5 for schema compliance, latency, accuracy, and cost.
August 2026
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Visual Regression Testing for OSS: Mac-Independent Baselines Updated Only in CI
How an Ionic theme project uses Playwright in a fixed Linux container, maintainer-authorized screenshot updates, and separate read/write jobs to keep visual baselines reproducible and reviewable.
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Let Users Try This PR with npm install: Building Per-PR Beta Releases for OSS
How I built a secure per-PR npm beta release flow with GitHub Actions, OIDC trusted publishing, immutable versions, and maintainer-approved /beta commands.
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The Library Grew by 0.1KB, but the Angular App's Initial JavaScript Shrank by 685KB
Why replacing Ionic root imports with granular entrypoints in a provider library cut an Angular app's initial synchronous JavaScript closure by 36.5%, even though the library itself became slightly larger.
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Bringing iOS 26 and Material Design 3 to Ionic: Both Themes Reach v9
The iOS 26 and Material Design 3 themes for Ionic now align with Ionic 9, adding two-line list items, supporting-text layouts, iOS outline fields, visual regression testing, and a smoother migration path.
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A Material Design 3 Theme for Ionic Has Grown into Something Really Good
@rdlabo/ionic-theme-md3 brings Material Design 3 to Ionic while preserving its components and markup, with dark mode, transitions, incremental adoption, and iOS 26 theme compatibility.
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Ionic 9 Is Here! Web Standardization Takes a Big Step Forward — Five Major Changes
Ionic Framework 9 highlights five changes that matter in day-to-day app development: rich Select options, Font Icons in ion-icon, ion-img deprecation, cleaner form controls, and more accessible sheet modal handles.
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Capacitor App Release Best Practices: Split Live Update and Store Submission in CI
Wire Capawesome Live Update, Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, and GitHub Actions so a version tag alone routes bug fixes over-the-air and feature or native changes through store submission.
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Live Updates for Mobile Apps: Overcoming the Next Bottleneck After AI-Accelerated Development
AI can make implementation dramatically faster, but mobile delivery still stalls at store review. Live Updates can shorten that last mile when the change, policy, and native runtime all allow it.
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The Implementation Load Was Too Heavy—So I Shelved It. What I Learned Shipping That Feature with AI
I shipped offline sync for a business app after shelving it for years. AI expanded what developer knowledge could reach—not replace it—and guardrails made a release I could not fully trace line by line still controllable.