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Engineering Notes

Real-world retrospectives, architecture breakdowns, and notes from shipping software into production. No artificial fluff just honest trade-offs and code that works.

Muhammad Riyad

Full-Stack & React Native Engineer

Sep 2, 2026 7 min read

How I Took Our E-Commerce Storefront from a 41 to 96 on Mobile PageSpeed

A practical breakdown of fixing bundle bloat, building an on-demand WebP pipeline in Laravel, and tuning Core Web Vitals on real mobile connections.

#Performance #Laravel #React

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Aug 15, 2026 7 min read

Building an Offline Barcode Scanner in React Native for Spotty Warehouse Wi-Fi

What I learned getting hardware laser scanners, messy GS1 barcodes, and local SQLite writes to work smoothly inside insulated warehouse freezers.

#React Native #Offline-First #Architecture

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