Expo Router for Next.js Developers, a Translation Guide
The file conventions map almost one to one. Navigation state, data loading and deep links are where the App Router mental model stops working.
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Now
What has my attention this month, kept honest by a visible date.
Updated 06 09 2026|Cape Town, GMT+2
Building
Rebuilding this site with self-hosted fonts and no client-side framework on article pages. The brief I gave myself: every page under 50KB of JavaScript, and a real answer for how AI crawlers read it.
Leading
Tech lead on the mobile app for a major U.S. motorcycle brand, built in React Native and Expo. Different muscles than a browser: same discipline about state, worse tooling for finding out why a screen re-rendered.
Traveling
Booked for Lead Dev NYC. Still working out which talks to skip in favour of the hallway track.
Reading
Loop engineering and agentic workflows — where an AI agent's plan–execute–verify loop earns trust, and where it still needs a human in the loop before anything ships.
Not doing
Consulting work, new side projects, and anything that requires a fourth Slack workspace.