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Shipping Greenhouse's release pipeline on a security camera's Mac Mini
A self-hosted macOS build runner sharing a box with an NVR, a DMG bundler that drives Finder through AppleScript, and the env var that overrode my env var.
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Building in public
Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
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Adding a Listmonk newsletter integration to blog-manager
Why a newsletter batch needed its own model instead of reusing the 1:1 post-sync pattern, plus Listmonk's odd auth scheme and a Brakeman quirk.
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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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The ULID spec admits its own bit math doesn't add up, then never explains it
A spec that states its own encoding wastes 2 bits and then never says how the remaining 128 map onto its two fields - decoded by trusting the spec's own worked example over its prose.
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When an RFC test vector isn't the RFC's test vector
A fetched table of RFC hex values looked fine until I checked digit counts: several entries were a character short, a summarization artifact, not a spec error.
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Teaching Greenhouse to preview vault audio in-app
A spike into Tauri's asset protocol, a runtime-scoped grant for a user-chosen vault, a narrow CSP widening, and an autoplay bug the a11y tests caught first.
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The 8-second scan hiding in every refresh
Measuring on device found a whole-library scan running on every Discover batch - and a 16x measurement trap where the HTTP cache flattered the wrong path.
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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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The setting that worked perfectly and felt completely broken
A filter setting only applied after relaunch, since a TabView keeps view models alive and seeded state stays frozen. The fix deleted a concept, not a bug.
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One knowledge base for all your AI agents
CLAUDE.md is great for stable conventions, but bad at holding gotchas and hard-won lessons. That needs one shared vault, not a copy per repo.
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