October ends and November is here. My monthly IT newsletter includes AWS and Azure outages, undersea datacenter, EU Chat Control, AI gambling addicts, chip factories, and the story behind Oracle's name.

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When AsyncStorage Is No Longer Enough: On my React Native learning journey, I recently integrated SQLite as a local database to store user data in my latest app. Funny enough, SQLite was also the very first database I ever used to learn SQL.

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I started a new blog series called #TechStackTrivia about little stories from IT history. My first piece: where did the name Oracle come from? medium.com/@mostsignifi...

My new app‘s Currency Selection dialog is ready to go. Including a function that determines your local currency from your GPS position.

It is a very geeky joy you feel when one functionality of your app is working for the very first time. My currency converter app is working with (day) live exchange rates.

Part 2 of my blog post series, where I write about building and launching a mobile app in just one month.
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The Tech News Roundup for August 2025: Mobile app in four weeks, PayPal double-mishap, Windows lawsuit, end of dial-up, local AI, Electronic Literature Lab
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I joined RevenueCat’s Shipaton, a public challenge to develop and publish a mobile app in just two months. Since I was on vacation during the first month, I now have just one month left to finish mine. I will share the process in a new blog series, From Zero to App Store: medium.com/@mostsignifi...

AI gives you the comfy illusion of coding faster.

I didn’t know any React Native boilerplate templates yet and how they could kickstart your next app—so I summarized 5 open source options in an article: medium.com/@mostsignifi... let me know if you habe questions or feedback!
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Chris

The Tech News Roundup for June 2025: Linux in Government, Pentagon Pizza Meter, PNG Update, Google Earth Turns 20, OS Creator Dinner, and Data Modeling.

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