A golden screenshot is a per-platform artifact, whatever the test says
Font rasterisation differs per renderer, so one reference image cannot hold.
kmp
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ignoreUnknownKeys is a compatibility policy you are choosing for everyone
Strict parsing is an outage on a new field; lenient is silent data loss on a rename.
Gradle's configuration cache, and the one task that kept invalidating it
A task capturing Project at execution time disables it for the whole build.
Ktor plugin order is not style — it decides what gets retried
Install auth after retry and a refresh happens per attempt; before, once.
The multipart upload that worked on three engines
Streaming a file body needs a filesystem, and one target has none.
There is no Logcat in commonMain, and println is not a logger
Five targets, five sinks, and one of them discards your output silently.
Shared navigation state and the one platform that kills your process
A back stack in memory is correct on desktop and loses the user's place on Android.
One notification API, four delivery systems that behave differently
Channels, categories, a service worker and a tray have different rules.
One shared call, five targets, three different strings
Locale-aware formatting is implemented per platform, and the outputs differ.
Two Kotlin classes, one Objective-C name, and a header that will not compile
Objective-C has no namespaces, so two same-named classes export as one.
The shared analytics event that meant something different on each platform
Each SDK truncates names, coerces types and limits parameters differently.
Two feature modules that needed each other, and the type that fixed it
A direct dependency between siblings is a cycle waiting for the third one.