Development
Fixing four small lies on the Deep Cut Atlas page
A dash that didn't match the app's own typography, a tagline that didn't parse, a feature claim the app can't back up, and one missing trailing slash in the structured data.
Dev Log
Building in public
Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
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The normalization bug that only shows up on tags made of nothing
A strip-based normalizer meets an all-punctuation tag: empty string as a hash key, wrong-tag substitution, and an autocomplete that matches everything. Three symptoms, one root cause.
Development
The outline was right, the box it was drawn around wasn't
A focus ring spanning an entire header row, a WebDriver window that macOS never made key, and the inline-span trick that shrinks an outline to the words inside it.
Development
Pre-release albums, and the fix I couldn't fully verify
Apple's 'Track N' placeholders rendered as real data. The one detection signal I couldn't confirm became the one signal I stopped depending on.
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A subscribe button, a MusicKit API I'd never used, and a sheet that dismisses into silence
musicSubscriptionOffer presents Apple's native sheet - and nothing in the app would ever notice it closing. The correctly-coded action that was still a functional dead end.
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