A dashboard that stopped telling time
A $derived block that read Date.now() exactly once, a midnight that meant different things to the frontend and the Rust engine, and the grammatically broken sentence that proved it.
Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
RSS feedA $derived block that read Date.now() exactly once, a midnight that meant different things to the frontend and the Rust engine, and the grammatically broken sentence that proved it.
A batch rename that reported success while posts failed, a limits_concurrency key that never actually shared a lock, and 465 real tags with a live casing duplicate to test against.
Five hotlinked image requests firing on every homepage visit, on a site whose privacy page says nothing tracks you - and a fetch that failed silently because it had no User-Agent.
155KB down to 11KB was the easy part. Being the first code to ever hit the /_image endpoint uncovered a latent middleware crash - and a verification habit worth breaking.
The config swap was documented. The real work was grepping node_modules for removed utility names - and fixing a shared package without changing how it renders on a v3 site.
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