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James O'Claire

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2026 12

  1. How to Install Python3.14 from source on Ubuntu 26.04
  2. Pip 26.2: –only-deps solves 16 years of app deployment hacks
  3. How to stay in the coding flow using LLMs
  4. The Pregnancy and Health Apps Still Leaking Data in 2026
  5. The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models
  6. Scan any iOS or Android App for SDKs and API Calls for Free with AppGoblin, no login
  7. Attribution in the Browser: Who Really Benefits from Google and Meta’s New Privacy Standard
  8. App Marketing: Free App Analytics vs all the “Free” paywall companies
  9. How many app SDKs did Publicis add with LiveRamp acquisition?
  10. AppGoblin App Ecosystem Report 2026 Q1
  11. Receiving Unexpected Positive Signals from the Mobile Ad Tech Community in 2026
  12. Mobile B2B Trends in 2025 SDK Usage across 50k Apps

2025 27

  1. Where are All the AI Generated Native Android & iOS Apps?
  2. PSA/Reminder: AI apps access your clipboard
  3. AI Companies are raising crazy amounts of money so why not use their free tiers?
  4. How creepy is the personalization in ChatGPT?
  5. Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop + disks
  6. Contabo Defaults Encourage Using SSH Passwords
  7. Mobile Trackers your Ad-Blocker Doesn’t Know About
  8. Contabo Private Networks are a Pain
  9. The 300 Most Common Android Data Endpoints (and the Companies Behind Them)
  10. Uncovering Lesser Known Mobile Adtech Domains
  11. August 2025: Top Mobile App Advertisers
  12. AI can’t solve novel problems yet
  13. The Trackers and SDKs in ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Perplexity
  14. How to self host your own S3 in 2025
  15. Apple: The Silent Advertising Monopoly
  16. Watching the Watchers: What to track when tracking app trackers?
  17. Free Mobile App ASO Tools: Fastest Growing Apps & Keyword Research added to AppGoblin
  18. 2025 How to Sniff Android HTTPS Traffic with Waydroid & mitm-proxy
  19. Easiest way to get Tanstack Table v8 working with Svelte 5!
  20. Which Apps have Mobile Trackers on Your Android Phone?
  21. Nearly 50% of Android Apps use Mobile Trackers
  22. Mobile SDK Showdown: Unveiling 2025’s Most Popular Frameworks Powering 30K Apps
  23. iOS SDK .Frameworks: Known Unknowns
  24. Quick Peek at DeepSeek’s Android Chinese SDKs
  25. Why is an MMP ‘required’ for buying mobile app ads?
  26. Apple App Store Dropped Support for Anti Ad Fraud Specs
  27. Google Search Console Has Deindexed Nearly my Entire Site

2024 14

  1. Top Business Tools for Finance Mobile Apps
  2. ClickHouse in Less than 2GB RAM in Docker
  3. Open Source & Paid Alternatives to Firebase Dynamic Links
  4. GitHub Large File Storage (git lfs) is basically paid only
  5. How to get Geo Location Info for IP Addresses
  6. AppGoblin New Features, Mobile Stats and Breakdowns
  7. WIP: Sharing the Monetization channels for mobile apps
  8. What does DIRECT mean for App-Ads.txt?
  9. Svelte 5 Data Table Comparisons
  10. How to figure out which 3rd Parties might be integrated with an iOS App?
  11. See which MMPs and Networks Apps and Games are Using
  12. Is this a TikTok security vulnerablity for ad fraud?
  13. Before You Agree: What data does TikTok collect before Terms of Service?
  14. ClickHouse: Refreshing Take on Materialized Views

2023 5

  1. AppGoblin: Free App Stats & Info
  2. Keeping Mobile Gamers Engaged with App Widgets
  3. Stay up to date with the latest tech new with Hacker News Widget & App
  4. I built my own very simple strategy game
  5. How to see traffic from your Android Device

2022 3

  1. Is Someone Else Using Your Game’s Monetization IDs?
  2. What A Mobile Ad Monopoly Looks Like
  3. Can You Use AI to Generate Marketing Creatives?

2016 4

  1. The Future of VR: Open Frontier or Walled Gardens
  2. To Love & Hate in the World of Advertising
  3. Why I started up away from home, and you should too
  4. The Future of Ad Networks? Where they might turn for market position.