Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
RSS feedA download-and-rehost pipeline for CC-licensed images: vips from a buffer, a UTF-8 force-encode that would have corrupted JPEG bytes, and a stale queue that made the guard look like a bug.
"Keep" set a client-side flag and a comment promised the pick would naturally change tomorrow. It never did - the fix was one nullable column and a healthy distrust of comments.
Authorization is not subscription, an error type that doesn't exist, and a finished fix sitting invisible in git stash while I rebuilt it from notes.
The check that shows up on merged PRs is Cloudflare reporting a build that already ran, not a pre-merge gate - so the gate became a synchronous local build instead.
A kanban board rendered a prop that went stale the moment new data existed anywhere else - and every mocked test passed, because a mock can't express staleness.
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