Development
The vault-review card that never rotated
"Keep" set a client-side flag, and a comment promised the pick would change tomorrow. It never did. The fix: one nullable column and distrust of comments.
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Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
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Development
Fixing a race, an Esc-key bug, and a duplicate-key crash in Greenhouse
A monotonic counter for out-of-order refreshes, a cancelable Esc-key dialog event, and a duplicate-key crash from a timestamp that collides within a second.
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What happens when a job broadcasts to nobody
Closing the hero-image loop: insert-only frontmatter patching, a guard that caught real drift on its first run, and a Turbo broadcast with no listener.
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Cleaning up abandoned tooling taught me two things npm and git don't tell you
An npm uninstall that leaves a 44MB binary behind, and a stash whose label records where HEAD was pointing, not what the diff is about.
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I recovered a stashed fix, then a live repro on my phone showed me a different bug
A clean stash apply, a SwiftLint rule pattern-matching syntax instead of tracing consumption, and a three-tab stall that wasn't the bug I'd fixed.
Development
Rebasing an affiliate PR into a build dependabot quietly broke
A grouped 12-update dependabot bump hid a Tailwind major that broke loudly and an Astro major that broke silently, triggered by one unmerged branch.
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Teaching blog-manager to write, not just read, GitHub repos
One PUT endpoint, an error-mapping decision (409 is the optimistic lock, 422 is your fault), a PRD that pointed at a file that doesn't exist, and a salvageable stash on a dead branch.
Development
An App Store rejection, a MusicKit gotcha, and work I thought I'd lost
Authorization is not subscription, an error type that doesn't exist, and a finished fix sitting invisible in git stash while I rebuilt it from notes.
Development
The bug my unit tests could never have found
A kanban board rendered a prop that went stale the moment other data changed, and every mocked test passed because a mock can't express staleness.
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Auto-merge assumed CI existed. It didn't.
The check that shows up on merged PRs is Cloudflare reporting a build that already ran, not a pre-merge gate - so the gate became a synchronous local build instead.
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