Building developer infrastructure across Appwrite and Homebase. Multi-language code generation and SDK tooling, agentic systems, and privacy-first, self-sovereign architecture. 6+ years.
Working notes: what we learned building the tooling we publish, and the parts of an engagement we're allowed to talk about.
A second test for the kit, this time on mobile: take India's face-recognition airport app, dense and low-contrast today, and rebuild all 15 screens using only @hopline/ux4g-react. Here's the case study, and the one insight that reshaped the whole app.
UX4G for React gave web teams India's government design system as real components. Now the same 41 components are genuinely native: @hopline/ux4g-react-native, no WebView, no DOM, one shared token source.
To see how far the kit really goes, we redesigned a real, demanding government service end to end, using only @hopline/ux4g-react. Here's the case study, and what the design system made easy.
UX4G is India's official government design system, shipped as a Bootstrap and jQuery bundle. We rebuilt it for modern React: 41 zero-dependency components, CSS-variable tokens, and a shadcn registry.
Why Hopline writes, and what to expect from this space as we work on deep tech and specialised systems.
Beyond the studio blog, we each share what we're learning in our own corners.
Building developer infrastructure across Appwrite and Homebase. Multi-language code generation and SDK tooling, agentic systems, and privacy-first, self-sovereign architecture. 6+ years.
R&D across Høgskolen i Molde, CERN-HSF and LBNL. Compilers and optimised backends, low-latency inference, and brain-computer interfaces. 6+ years.
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