Software Engineer at Automattic | WooCommerce. Building and sharing what I learn.

Open Source

• 🏢 woocommerce/woocommerce-ios
• 🤝 woocommerce/woocommerce-android
• 🌍 woocommerce/woocommerce
• 🔩 Automattic/woocommerce-payments

Personal Tinkering

• 🚀 staskus/Pomafocus
• 📱 staskus/dreamspaces
• 🔬 staskus/iosforge
• ⚡ staskus/QuickBaby
• 🧩 staskus/AgentsHub
• 🎯 staskus/homebrew-tap

This week, I focused on a mix of stability fixes and feature enhancements across several projects. On the iOS point of sale app, I tackled a tricky EXC_BAD_ACCESS crash caused by concurrent accesses to a non-thread-safe dictionary and squashed subtle bugs around booking state updates, stale emails on receipts, and quirky input field behavior on iPadOS 26. I also improved the Tap to Pay workflow to ensure payments use the correct Stripe account after a store switch and added stronger PR automation by assigning labels and milestones directly from workflow steps. On the Android side, I extended the mobile announcements feature with an optional "Learn more" link to give users better context for new features. I found time to tinker with my personal tooling, too, refactoring my weekly summary workflow to improve parsing and reporting. All in all, it was a week of smoothing out the edges while pushing small but impactful new capabilities.

1. ℹ️ Labeled PR #16781 in woocommerce/woocommerce-ios
2. ℹ️ Labeled PR #16781 in woocommerce/woocommerce-ios
3. ℹ️ Labeled PR #63556 in woocommerce/woocommerce
4. ℹ️ Labeled PR #63556 in woocommerce/woocommerce
5. ℹ️ Labeled PR #15485 in woocommerce/woocommerce-android

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