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The cancel button that didn't cancel
Escape looked like it worked in every manual click-through. Writing the regression test forced the real event order - and the stray blur that saved what should have been thrown away.
Dev Log
Building in public
Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
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The paragraph that skipped translation because it never asked
A footer paragraph sat hardcoded in English next to fully translated Spanish strings - because it was never in the shared i18n strings file at all.
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Project-filtered dev log routes, and the concurrent session that snuck up on me
Fixing two dead-end homepage links meant building tag filtering, then a git collision from a concurrent session I didn't see coming caught me mid-ship.
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The post editor shell, a stale-token bug, and no mocking gem
A drafts table, autosave, and the first synchronous GitHub call in the app - plus a bug green tests sailed past and a hand-rolled stub helper when minitest/mock wasn't there.
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A gate that never runs isn't a gate
An IPC contract test, a release smoke test, a dependency audit with 18 surprise advisories, and a contrast check broken the whole time it wasn't running.
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Seed tray: the ideas that vanished for a week
A captured idea in Greenhouse vanished for a full week. The fix was a Seed tray zone with a countdown, and no button to skip the wait.
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The hero image bug that was actually three bugs
A card that lied about a missing hero image, a relative path resolved against the wrong origin, and a hotlink block from my own blog against my own app.
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Two triggers, one KV id: why preview builds were dark on imperfectsystems.com
Chasing down why non-production branch builds never ran on Cloudflare Workers Builds - a KV namespace nobody asked for, and a trigger model I'd misread.
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Harvest shelf: giving Greenhouse's released items somewhere to land
Releasing a project was write-only: the database stamped a timestamp, a badge branch could never render, and the entire payoff of the pipeline was invisible.
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The bug that only exists under a configuration nobody uses yet
A consent package worked fine for months, until enabling Astro's view transitions exposed a stale closure that had been pointing at nothing all along.
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