Ana's Dev Scribbles

Welcome to my dev blog. You'll find a mix of topics here...DevOps, backend, frontend, mobile, macOS and Linux tips, and whatever else I happen to be exploring at the time. Subscribe for new articles, and check out my latest tutorials on YouTube.

My Apps

Apps I designed, developed, and shipped from idea to store.

ListDuo

Shared grocery list

Cookmarks

Recipe bookmark manager

Hexagram Dreams

I Ching journal

Dreamiary

Dream journal

Cikla

Local produce calendar

Managing App store apps on behalf of clients

There's a confusion going on when managing client apps, that you should have a developer account. You don't need one. When managing clients app store apps, client should own a developer account,...

Jan 21, 2026

2 min read

Your Ghost posts are publicly accessible

If you own a ghost blog, your ghost blog posts are publicly accessible. It doesn't matter if your post or page is in draft or a private status. I discovered this issue accidentally when...

Jan 20, 2026

Making Network tab work in a self hosted Ghost

For anyone who is self hosting ghost blog behind nginx, this is the configuration that worked for me: location ^~ /.ghost/activitypub/ { proxy_pass https://ap.ghost.org; proxy_http_version 1.1; proxy_ssl_server_name...

Jan 15, 2026

3 min read

Sign in with Apple in React Native Expo App

If your app includes third-party authentication providers like Google login or GitHub login, Apple requires you to also provide an equivalent login option that prioritizes user privacy by limiting data collection to name and email, allowing...

Jan 13, 2026

2 min read

Detect leaked secrets in GitHub repo and remove them

I recently found out about gitleaks. It's an open source tool that detects leaked secrets. If you just want to try it locally, it's a simple command: gitleaks detect --verbose Sometimes you&...

Jan 09, 2026

2 min read

Secure configuration in GitHub using SOPS

Usual problem with software development, since I started working, is handling configuration and keeping secrets. For managing secrets I have tried AWS secret manager and Google secret manager. I even tried keeping configuration in "plain...

Ana's Dev Scribbles

My Apps

ListDuo

Cookmarks

Hexagram Dreams

Dreamiary

Cikla

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Expo

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Managing App store apps on behalf of clients

Your Ghost posts are publicly accessible

Making Network tab work in a self hosted Ghost

Sign in with Apple in React Native Expo App

Detect leaked secrets in GitHub repo and remove them

Secure configuration in GitHub using SOPS