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Teaching Greenhouse to preview vault audio in-app
A spike into Tauri's asset protocol, a runtime-scoped grant for a user-chosen vault, a narrow CSP widening, and an autoplay bug the a11y tests caught first.
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Building in public
Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
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The 8-second scan hiding in every refresh
Measuring on device found a whole-library scan running on every Discover batch - and a 16x measurement trap where the HTTP cache flattered the wrong path.
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try? turned an outage into "all caught up"
A try? ?? [] made network failure indistinguishable from "no releases", which let an outage cache an empty feed over good data for 24 hours.
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The setting that worked perfectly and felt completely broken
A filter setting only applied after relaunch, since a TabView keeps view models alive and seeded state stays frozen. The fix deleted a concept, not a bug.
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One knowledge base for all your AI agents
CLAUDE.md is great for stable conventions, but bad at holding gotchas and hard-won lessons. That needs one shared vault, not a copy per repo.
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Shipping Deep Cut Atlas: what broke during my first App Store submission
A consumable that should have been non-consumable, a product ID you can never reuse, an archive that quietly didn't rebuild, and a rename with a two-week fuse.
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The runbook that lied twice
A one-line docs fix turned into three meanings of one hostname, a renamed runner directory, and automation reintroducing the bug it was meant to prevent.
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Closing the door nobody was using
The apex domain sent no mail and had no SPF or DMARC, which meant anyone could forge it. Two DNS records, ninety seconds in a dashboard, one dig to verify.
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The bug that was actually the debugger
The site-wide mobile clipping bug that didn't exist: headless Chrome silently clamps to a 500px floor and crops the screenshot to whatever width you asked for.
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Three doors that were never locked
A null CSP, a config value joined onto a filesystem path unchecked, and a vault picker that would accept your home directory - none broken yet, all unlocked.
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