Development
Cleaning up abandoned tooling taught me two things npm and git don't tell you
An npm uninstall that leaves a 44MB binary behind, and a stash whose label records where HEAD was pointing, not what the diff is about.
Dev Log
Building in public
Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
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The empty database that looked perfectly healthy
SQLite treats a zero-byte file as a valid fresh database, so every corruption check passed - and the backup pruning would have deleted the good copies within a week.
Development
Pausing on a Homebrew "untrusted tap" prompt to actually audit before trusting
The trust gate exists because a real tap got compromised. Twenty minutes of reading the formula, the permissions, and the maintainer beat ten seconds of running the suggested command.
Development
What happens when a job broadcasts to nobody
Closing the hero-image loop: insertion-only frontmatter patching, a guard that distrusts the database and caught real drift on its first run, and a Turbo broadcast with no listener.
Development
Fixing a race, an Esc-key bug, and a duplicate-key crash in Greenhouse
A monotonic counter for out-of-order refreshes, a cancelable dialog event, a timestamp key that collides within a second - and a regression test that couldn't fail.
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