Development
The formatter that never checked its own scripts folder
A deploy gate that ran, passed, and never once looked at the directory holding the script that runs before the build starts.
Dev Log
Building in public
Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
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Open Source OG cards, and the space that wasn't there
Five new social cards, a renderer that eats a whitespace character in one specific position, and the same bug already shipped on the card that had been live for months.
Development
Proving a fallback actually falls back
A test that passes whether or not your override option works is not a test, it's a coin flip that happens to land the same way every time.
Development
The aria-label i18n bug that was hiding in plain sight
A shared component library shipped a real Spanish translation layer, and two hardcoded English aria-labels rode along for months anyway - because being 90% correct is better camouflage than being 0% correct.
Development
The bug that only exists under a configuration nobody uses yet
A consent package that worked fine in production for months, until I turned on the one Astro feature that would have broken it from day one - and a stale closure that was never actually broken, just pointed at a ghost.
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