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"Looks the same to me"
A UI redesign, a review comment that named the exact property I never touched, and what it takes to actually fix what someone reports instead of what's around it.
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Building in public
Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
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My mocks couldn't fail: error injection and a Swift 6 isolation crash
Every catch branch was dead code in tests. A 15-line failure seam fixed that, and then one unannotated test suite took down the whole runner.
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Add a feature, or move a responsibility?
Adding Postiz social cross-posting looked done until a blunt question exposed a double-post bug, and a full audit of every posting path in the app found two more like it.
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I reviewed my own iOS app with five parallel agents: here's what they found
Five ~700-line slices, briefs that ask what's well done too, and the verification step that separated real bugs from plausible ones.
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Deleting an integration by moving it to Postiz
Routing Dev.to publishing through Postiz and deleting the native client: the DTO that validates stricter than the runtime, the draft that isn't, and a cover image lost to local storage.
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Wiring up SwiftLint and GitHub Actions CI for an iOS app (and the runner that lied)
Adopting a linter on code that never had one, a framework-free pre-commit hook, and three things the macOS runner did that the docs didn't mention.
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StoreKit 2 lifetime unlock in a Swift 6 SwiftUI app: three things that bit me
The purchase API is the easy part. The seams between StoreKit 2, Swift 6 isolation, and SwiftUI observation are where the time went.
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Deleting a publishing integration I just built
Removing the never-used native Hashnode integration: 31 files, +14/-1126, a grep that lied a little, and the architecture question the deletion forced.
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The Postiz webhook I couldn't build, and polling instead
A spike that ended in "don't build this": private-IP rejection, an unauthenticated empty payload, and the pull API that had everything the push lacked.
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Building a music player I can't actually hear
An inline mini-player when MusicKit playback is silent in the simulator: a two-method protocol, an honest lie of an indicator, and a bug left in on purpose.
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