Development
The bug behind the bug
A broken GitHub widget traced to a paused upstream demo - and, found along the way, a hash-pinned CSP silently invalidated by a one-line accessibility fix.
Dev Log
Building in public
Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
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Pro-gated iCloud sync for the "Not Interested" list
A KVS blob with tombstones instead of CloudKit-everything, a decorator that keeps free users off iCloud entirely, and proving sync works with only one device.
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The syndication tracker that couldn't answer its own question
Missing status pills hid the real signal, a system test would have merged silently red, and firewall rules killed every outbound container connection.
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Rescue-or-Keep: building the vault zone for Greenhouse
Vaulting now really moves your files, and a "Keep Vaulted" no-op that wasn't - re-vaulting would have reset the exact timestamp the daily review sorts on.
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The CSP that only broke in production
Four failures behind one header: dead middleware, _headers rules that merge instead of override, a blob-URL worker under script-src, and a script only the edge injects.
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Shipping a shared-package feature across two repos for one route
An RSS feed that split into a pure helper in the shared package and a local route per site, plus the release discipline a tag-pinned tarball dependency demands.
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Building the project detail view for Greenhouse
Does advancing a stage count as a touch, what happens at the last stage, and a cooldown-vs-rotation tangent that turned out to be one question, not two.
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The 404 that was already correct, and the robots.txt that wasn't
A Sitemap directive that had to point at the index, a 404 fix that almost got overbuilt, and a documented Cloudflare behavior that didn't materialize when checked.
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Reconciling Medium cross-posts blog-manager never staged
An RSS feed that silently caps at 10 items, a synthetic-key backfill that only upgrades, and 76 of 78 titles matching without any fuzzy logic.
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Giving every share link a face
An og:image guard that never fired, a one-line default that fixed it, a purpose-built terminal card, and a retina gotcha in headless Chrome.
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