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Pinning SwiftLint in CI when Homebrew won't let you
brew install swiftlint means whatever's stable today, and release-tag CI is most exposed to that drift. The fix pins to a portable binary, not a formula.
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Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
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Teaching an agent to click-test my Tauri app
macOS has no official Tauri WebDriver. A community plugin fills the gap, but Cargo's feature unification nearly shipped its test server into release builds.
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Writing tests that check the right thing
Two coverage gaps closed, and the more useful question a review pass asked afterward: not "does this pass" but "what would this test actually catch."
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Closing the test gaps: pure logic, an unreachable mock branch, and a Swift 6 flip
Extracting algorithms out of MusicKit's reach, a mock parameter that was silently ignored, and two tests that had been passing for the wrong reason all along.
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A segfault that wasn't a bug, and the API I finally deleted
A MusicKit service-layer cleanup where deleting dead methods crashed every test at once - and the fix was a clean build, not a debugger.
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The Cloudflare Workers Builds deploy that failed on a config file arguing with itself
Replacing dead GitHub Actions with Cloudflare Workers Builds meant a missing --config flag and a token type the Builds API flatly refuses to accept.
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Fixing History's load path, then catching myself over-commenting the fix
Three sequential fetches where one wasn't even needed up front, two quadratic recomputes, and a linter that exposed why I was really writing all those comments.
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Fixing a redirect, and the edge case one line missed
A one-word fix to the login return-path that a scanner and a review each caught being incomplete: HEAD requests slipping past, and a stale stored URL nobody cleared.
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A hardening ticket that needed re-deriving before I could implement it
A stale task that would have undone the CI migration, a master-key fix that escalated from shrink-the-window to close-it, and a parser that silently eats plausible syntax.
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The actor-isolation trap in "just move it off the main thread"
Synthesized Codable conformances inherit default MainActor isolation too, and async let has stricter demands than the task you already have.
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