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A 500 that was hiding inside a mounted engine's isolated routes
The jobs dashboard returned a 500 instead of a login page: bare route helpers resolve against the engine, not the app. One line, plus its dormant twin.
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Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
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A test that proved nothing, and the bug it was supposed to catch
A five-finding cleanup batch where the smallest item mattered most: a regression test that failed because the bug it targeted is structurally unreachable.
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Deleting dead code, and catching a wrong reason for a right answer
A cleanup issue with a wrong rationale, a docs sweep that wasn't needed, and the orphaned credential a review caught.
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The whole-library scan I thought I'd already fixed
A pattern doesn't get fixed once. One more main-actor library scan hiding on a write path, and the batch API that was only wired in one direction.
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Reading changelogs before bumping three stale dependencies
An archived YAML crate, nine minor versions of rusqlite drift, and a duplicate thiserror major. The work was the reading, not the writing.
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Moving CI to a self-hosted runner after GitHub broke our billing
Dead CI, live deploys: folding every job onto the homelab runner, deleting the hosted-runner compensation machinery, and the CVE backlog waiting behind the gate.
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Adding Dependabot to Greenhouse (and the Rust workspace gotcha it surfaced)
Dependency scanning without a new CI job, grouped update PRs, and the virtual-workspace detail that makes the cargo entry point at the wrong directory.
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Stopping the heroless-post gap from coming back (a guard, not a nag)
A one-time cleanup fixed 80 posts and promised nothing. The second fix is twelve lines that fail the build, with zero exceptions.
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My Discover tab was empty because I asked Apple Music the wrong question
Library ids fed to catalog requests: two symptoms, one bug, a device-verified fix, and the 1,610-artist number that forced a redesign.
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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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