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When a filter set quietly becomes a feature
The Not Interested store only ever kept keys. Then it had to become a screen, and the model needed to carry its own description.
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Building in public
Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
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Building Greenhouse: the first screens
The UI arc: a wizard shell built before its walls existed, a capture flow torn out for being wrong, a dashboard verified without launching the app, and the gaps between green checkmarks and the truth.
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The buttons weren't broken: the main thread was busy
118 green tests, a clean simulator pass, and dead buttons on a real phone. The bug was a @MainActor service doing synchronous work between awaits.
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Building Greenhouse: the vault on disk
The folder layout that outlives the app: zones vs stages, a config that refuses to overwrite, a printout of a database, adopt-in-place import, and the parameter that did nothing.
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Building Greenhouse: the rules engine that came before the app existed
Writing a full Rust rules engine and 22 tests before Greenhouse had a UI, or even a working Rust toolchain on the machine building it - and what broke the moment it actually compiled.
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