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A two-second accessibility gate that runs on every push
axe-core over the existing component-test harness, scoped to actual WCAG rules - and an honest accounting of what a jsdom gate structurally cannot catch.
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Greenhouse
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Teaching an agent to click-test my Tauri app
macOS has no official Tauri WebDriver, a community plugin fills the gap, and Cargo's feature unification nearly compiled the whole test server into release builds.
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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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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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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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Building Greenhouse: the first screens
The UI arc: a wizard shell built before its walls existed, a capture flow torn out for being wrong, a dashboard verified without launching the app, and the gaps between green checkmarks and the truth.
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Building Greenhouse: the vault on disk
The folder layout that outlives the app: zones vs stages, a config that refuses to overwrite, a printout of a database, adopt-in-place import, and the parameter that did nothing.
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Building Greenhouse: the rules engine that came before the app existed
Writing a full Rust rules engine and 22 tests before Greenhouse had a UI, or even a working Rust toolchain on the machine building it - and what broke the moment it actually compiled.
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The status that nothing ever wrote (Greenhouse engine dev log)
A status no code ever set, a parser that guessed, and an engine review that kept finding more: backwards sorts, an unenforced constraint, and a settings file that could brick the app.
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