Development
Shipping a shared-package feature across two repos for one route
An RSS feed that split into a pure helper in the shared package and a local route per site, plus the release discipline a tag-pinned tarball dependency demands.
Dev Log
Building in public
Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
RSS feedDevelopment
Building the project detail view for Greenhouse
Does advancing a stage count as a touch, what happens at the last stage, and a cooldown-vs-rotation tangent that turned out to be one question, not two.
Development
The 404 that was already correct, and the robots.txt that wasn't
A Sitemap directive that had to point at the index, a 404 fix that almost got overbuilt, and a documented Cloudflare behavior that didn't materialize when checked.
Development
Reconciling Medium cross-posts blog-manager never staged
An RSS feed that silently caps at 10 items, a synthetic-key backfill that only upgrades, and 76 of 78 titles matching without any fuzzy logic.
Development
Giving every share link a face
An og:image guard that never fired, a one-line default that fixed it, a purpose-built terminal card, and a retina gotcha in headless Chrome.
Development
A UX decision I got wrong on the first try
The add-to-playlist action matched its sibling gesture on the same card - and fought the rest of the app. Picking the wrong reference point for "consistent."
Development
Three ways "the spec said X" was wrong
A dead symlink target, a fix already queued by automation, and docs describing components that don't exist - three sources of truth, same lesson each time.
Development
Proving the backup actually works
"We have backups" and "we have backups that work" are different claims. A file-level restore, a query against the restored data, and a stray copy cleaned up along the way.
Development
A two-second accessibility gate that runs on every push
axe-core over the existing component-test harness, scoped to actual WCAG rules - and an honest accounting of what a jsdom gate structurally cannot catch.
Development
Three lines of config, an afternoon of verification
Uncommenting three Rails SSL flags took ten minutes. Reading the framework source and testing two plausible but wrong review findings took the rest of the day.
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