Development
Shipping Deep Cut Atlas: what broke during my first App Store submission
A consumable that should have been non-consumable, a product ID you can never reuse, an archive that quietly didn't rebuild, and a rename with a two-week fuse.
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Building in public
Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
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A tracklist section, and why it took 30 minutes
One protocol method, a reused state enum, a routing convention that held, and a lint budget that forced a split worth making anyway.
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try? turned an outage into "all caught up"
A try? ?? [] made network failure indistinguishable from "no releases", which let an outage cache an empty feed over good data for 24 hours.
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Backfilling reality into a syndication tracker
Prod said zero Medium posts; the rake tasks fixed that in minutes. Then the reconciler crashed everywhere, a dashboard got scraped from the DOM, and CI failed three ways.
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The bug that was actually the debugger
The site-wide mobile clipping bug that didn't exist: headless Chrome silently clamps to a 500px floor and crops the screenshot to whatever width you asked for.
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