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A per-blog toggle, and when not to "fix" a bug
A boolean threaded through four layers, and three independent reviews agreeing on a finding I deliberately didn't fix, since the cache is the dedup mechanism.
Dev Log
Building in public
Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
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The blog that couldn't publish on a schedule
A batch pipeline design that started with a five-minute substrate check: future-dated posts weren't hidden, they were 404s, and nothing ever rebuilt the site.
Development
The scan that offered to import itself
An import scanner found the app's own scaffolding, then re-offered a folder it had just imported - two versions of one missing conversation.
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The dialog that closed itself before I could use it
A callback renamed to something generic kept its wizard-specific meaning, and the same signal meant two different things to two different listeners.
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Debugging a hidden checkbox on Medium's real UI
A zero-sized invisible input behind a styled toggle, a disabled state that silently eats clicks, and verification against the live page instead of my own logs.
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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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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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