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Driving a locked iPhone from a coding session
WebDriverAgent needed an always-unlocked phone on my desk. iPhone Mirroring plus mirroir-mcp let an agent tap and verify MusicKit with the screen dark.
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Pausing on a Homebrew "untrusted tap" prompt to actually audit before trusting
The trust gate exists because a real tap got compromised. Twenty minutes of reading the formula, the permissions, and the maintainer beat ten seconds of running the suggested command.
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Cleaning up abandoned tooling taught me two things npm and git don't tell you
An npm uninstall that leaves a 44MB binary behind, and a stash whose label records where HEAD was pointing, not what the diff is about.
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I recovered a stashed fix, then a live repro on my phone showed me a different bug
A clean stash apply, a SwiftLint rule pattern-matching syntax instead of tracing consumption, and a three-tab stall that wasn't the bug I'd fixed.
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An App Store rejection, a MusicKit gotcha, and work I thought I'd lost
Authorization is not subscription, an error type that doesn't exist, and a finished fix sitting invisible in git stash while I rebuilt it from notes.
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A filter bug report that turned into three separate issues
The reported filter worked fine - the real issue was a different, deliberately independent filter, and the fix was a third option nobody had considered.
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Building a rating prompt I was sure wouldn't render in the simulator
A three-wins gate, one requestReview() call, and a piece of received wisdom about simulator behavior that turned out to be wrong when actually tried.
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The bug I filed was wrong, and the fixture that fixed it broke four other tests
The bug I filed was a write-time guard for something that couldn't happen. The real fix was a read-time exclusion, and its fixture broke four other tests.
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The playlist that already had the right name
A rename artifact, an API with no author field to update, and a device test proving the bug had already fixed itself - closed as accept-as-is.
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Featured albums, real MusicKit data, and a test that lied about passing
There's no isEssential flag - Essentials is a song playlist. featuredAlbums is the real signal, and a fixture change exposed a test nobody had re-run.
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