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The Cloudflare Workers Builds deploy that failed on a config file arguing with itself
Replacing dead GitHub Actions with Cloudflare Workers Builds meant a missing --config flag and a token type the Builds API flatly refuses to accept.
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Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
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Fixing History's load path, then catching myself over-commenting the fix
Three sequential fetches where one wasn't even needed up front, two quadratic recomputes, and a linter that exposed why I was really writing all those comments.
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Fixing a redirect, and the edge case one line missed
A one-word fix to the login return-path that a scanner and a review each caught being incomplete: HEAD requests slipping past, and a stale stored URL nobody cleared.
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A hardening ticket that needed re-deriving before I could implement it
A stale task that would have undone the CI migration, a master-key fix that escalated from shrink-the-window to close-it, and a parser that silently eats plausible syntax.
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The actor-isolation trap in "just move it off the main thread"
Synthesized Codable conformances inherit default MainActor isolation too, and async let has stricter demands than the task you already have.
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A 500 that was hiding inside a mounted engine's isolated routes
The jobs dashboard returned a 500 instead of a login page: bare route helpers resolve against the engine, not the app. One line, plus its dormant twin.
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A test that proved nothing, and the bug it was supposed to catch
A five-finding cleanup batch where the smallest item mattered most: a regression test that failed because the bug it targeted is structurally unreachable.
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Deleting dead code, and catching a wrong reason for a right answer
A cleanup issue with a wrong rationale, a docs sweep that wasn't needed, and the orphaned credential a review caught.
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The whole-library scan I thought I'd already fixed
A pattern doesn't get fixed once. One more main-actor library scan hiding on a write path, and the batch API that was only wired in one direction.
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Reading changelogs before bumping three stale dependencies
An archived YAML crate, nine minor versions of rusqlite drift, and a duplicate thiserror major. The work was the reading, not the writing.
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