Development
Proving the backup actually works
"We have backups" and "we have backups that work" are different claims. A file-level restore, a query against the restored data, and a stray copy cleaned up along the way.
Dev Log
Building in public
Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
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Three lines of config, an afternoon of verification
Uncommenting Rails SSL flags took ten minutes. Reading the framework source, testing two plausible-but-wrong review findings, and proving the live cookie took the rest.
Development
Three ways "the spec said X" was wrong
A dead symlink target, a fix already queued by automation, and docs describing components that don't exist - three sources of truth, same lesson each time.
Development
A two-second accessibility gate that runs on every push
axe-core over the existing component-test harness, scoped to actual WCAG rules - and an honest accounting of what a jsdom gate structurally cannot catch.
Development
A UX decision I got wrong on the first try
The add-to-playlist action matched its sibling gesture on the same card - and fought the rest of the app. Picking the wrong reference point for "consistent."
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