Development
Building Greenhouse: the first screens
The UI arc: a wizard shell built before its steps existed, a capture flow torn out for being wrong, and the gap between green checkmarks and the truth.
Dev Log
Building in public
Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
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The buttons weren't broken: the main thread was busy
118 green tests, a clean simulator pass, and dead buttons on a real phone. The bug was a @MainActor service doing synchronous work between awaits.
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Building Greenhouse: the vault on disk
The folder layout that outlives the app: zones versus stages, a config that refuses to overwrite itself, a database printout, and adopt-in-place import.
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Building Greenhouse: the rules engine that came before the app existed
A full Rust rules engine and 22 tests, written before Greenhouse had a UI or even a working Rust toolchain, and what broke the moment it finally compiled.
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Starting a dev log
Why Imperfect Systems is keeping a public dev log, and how the blog is wired up under the hood.
Development
Sharing an Astro blog across two sites
You can't extract a blog, but you can extract its components: a token contract for two palettes, and the two CI bites that never happen on a laptop.
Development
The status that nothing ever wrote (Greenhouse engine dev log)
A rules engine that looked finished hid a status nothing ever set, backwards sorts, an unenforced constraint, and a settings file that could brick the app.
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The last native publisher: finishing the Postiz consolidation
Medium's native integration was a museum exhibit. A browser bridge, an article whose body is a URL, and minus 1,603 lines.
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Racing the main actor: when await is the race condition
@MainActor eliminates data races, not interleaving races. A generation token, a stale-failure guard, and a deterministic race test with no sleeps.
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Dark mode in an afternoon when your CSS is already tokens (and the false alarm that wasn't)
A whole dark theme by redefining CSS variables under one class, and 45 minutes spent proving a five-line toggle innocent.
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