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Moving CI to a self-hosted runner after GitHub broke our billing
Dead CI, live deploys: folding every job onto the homelab runner, deleting the hosted-runner compensation machinery, and the CVE backlog waiting behind the gate.
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Building in public
Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
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Adding Dependabot to Greenhouse (and the Rust workspace gotcha it surfaced)
Dependency scanning without a new CI job, grouped update PRs, and the virtual-workspace detail that makes the cargo entry point at the wrong directory.
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Stopping the heroless-post gap from coming back (a guard, not a nag)
A one-time cleanup fixed 80 posts and promised nothing. The second fix is twelve lines that fail the build, with zero exceptions.
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My Discover tab was empty because I asked Apple Music the wrong question
Library ids fed to catalog requests: two symptoms, one bug, a device-verified fix, and the 1,610-artist number that forced a redesign.
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When a filter set quietly becomes a feature
The Not Interested store only ever kept keys. Then it had to become a screen, and the model needed to carry its own description.
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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.
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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.
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