Development
Proving the backup actually works
"We have backups" and "we have backups that work" are different claims. A file-level restore, a query against the restored data, and a stray copy cleaned up along the way.
Dev log
blog-manager
Development
Three lines of config, an afternoon of verification
Uncommenting three Rails SSL flags took ten minutes. Reading the framework source and testing two plausible but wrong review findings took the rest of the day.
Development
A doc-drift fix that wasn't as boring as it sounded
Three audit items that each turned into something: a half-fixed claim, a quietly dead password reset, and a staging email that would have linked to production.
Development
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."
Development
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.
Development
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.
Development
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.
Development
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.
Development
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.
Development
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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