Development
Teaching a project manager to recognize a Logic Pro session
Logic Pro sessions are folders in disguise, and the filter hiding .DS_Store junk hid every DAW project too. A silent click also fooled a retry loop.
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Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
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Fixing the stale GitHub pinned-repo list
A comment claiming the list 'mirrors the pinned repos' was true once. A hardcoded list with no drift check eventually lies about what it mirrors.
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Making a silent failure loud: proactive Medium session-expiry detection
A health check and dashboard tile replace waiting for a publish to fail as the way to catch a stale Medium session, plus a timeout bug five reviews found.
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Adopting a shared component surfaced a bug the component didn't have
A privacy-policy page from a shared library rendered perfectly by every check I ran, except the one that actually mattered.
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Adding Openverse: the third image provider, and the first one nobody has to configure
800M+ CC and public-domain images, anonymous by default - and the design consequence that an install with zero configured providers now makes real API calls.
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Making a CSP hash a build output instead of a hand-maintained one
A game launch button broke silently two days before anyone noticed. The fix wasn't recomputing a hash - it was making sure nobody ever has to again.
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A one-line token swap that found a broken button and a GDPR gap
Fixing a placeholder analytics token turned into a lesson about how CSP hashes go stale silently, and why a dev server can lie to you about production behavior.
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Retrofitting Deep Cut Atlas to Xcode String Catalogs (and the CLI gotcha nobody warns you about)
xcodebuild compiles the extraction files and reports success - and never writes a single key into the catalog. The merge step is an Xcode-IDE-only move.
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Retiring the staging environment
A second container, a separate monitor, an 11% workflow failure rate, and zero evidence it ever caught a bug production deploys missed. Deleted.
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Adding Spanish and Portuguese to a desktop app, and getting caught on my own assumption
A reload-based locale switch proven against the real compiled app, a settings file that turned out to matter, and a Spanish word from the wrong hemisphere.
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