Development
Building a MusicKit app when MusicKit won't run in the simulator
A protocol, a real service, and a mock that records its writes: making the simulator useful again, plus the worktree mishap and the newborn-target trap.
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Building in public
Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
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The config change that was already done (Postiz public API)
A prerequisite ticket said to flip a flag that was already on. Reading the source at the deployed tag turned a no-op into three corrections.
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File-system synchronized groups: how Claude Code drives Xcode
An agent can't click the New Project wizard. Xcode 16's file-system synchronized groups are the seam that lets it own every source file anyway.
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Setting up Claude Code for an iOS project
Writing the CLAUDE.md for a new iOS app before any Swift exists: the MusicKit-in-simulator trap, CloudKit's SwiftData rules, and the learning-project framing.
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Hashnode cross-posting in the blog manager
Hashnode is a third syndication target, and the first over GraphQL: no client gem, a two-step publish flow, and sync by slug instead of draft ID.
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Adding Dev.to as a syndication target
The Forem API as the anti-Medium, a shared LinkedIn announce service with idempotency, and the Zeitwerk acronym gotcha that struck twice.
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Building a blog syndication backfill
72 Medium posts my database knew nothing about: the RSS cap, an undocumented GraphQL workaround, Unicode apostrophes, and the kamal stdin trap.
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Untangling the Colima dependency in Kamal deploys
My Mac's Docker daemon was a load-bearing part of production deploys. Build-once-deploy-many with Kamal 2, and the three research assumptions that were wrong.
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When Medium doesn't have an API: RSS polling and LinkedIn cross-posting
Detecting Medium publishes by polling the RSS feed, LinkedIn's four mandatory headers, and the Zeitwerk acronym rule that broke migration rollback in CI.
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Adding live blog URL links to the post dashboard
Making dashboard titles link to the live posts: a configurable path prefix, a pub_date gate against broken links, and a spec column I scrapped.
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