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Project-filtered dev log routes, and the concurrent session that snuck up on me
Fixing two dead-end homepage links meant building tag filtering, then a git collision from a concurrent session I didn't see coming caught me mid-ship.
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Imperfect Systems
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Two triggers, one KV id: why preview builds were dark on imperfectsystems.com
Chasing down why non-production branch builds never ran on Cloudflare Workers Builds - a KV namespace nobody asked for, and a trigger model I'd misread.
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Two Astro i18n bugs that don't show up until you diff the rendered HTML
Astro's fallback rewrite silently shadows real translations behind getStaticPaths, and Astro.url reports the wrong page location on fallback-rendered routes.
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A repeatable a11y check for imperfectsystems.com
A one-off axe run isn't a check, it's a snapshot of one moment. Porting the sibling site's pa11y-ci setup, with wrangler dev resolving bindings for free.
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Spotlighting the shared packages this site quietly depends on
Star counts undersell infrastructure. I hand-wrote a subsection above the auto-generated cards, then found a tooling assumption that didn't survive checking.
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Rebasing an affiliate PR into a build dependabot quietly broke
A grouped 12-update dependabot bump hid a Tailwind major that broke loudly and an Astro major that broke silently, triggered by one unmerged branch.
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Auto-merge assumed CI existed. It didn't.
The check that shows up on merged PRs is Cloudflare reporting a build that already ran, not a pre-merge gate - so the gate became a synchronous local build instead.
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The landing page copy that competed in the wrong category
The marketing page pitched new-release tracking - an incumbent's home turf - while the view model's doc comment had the real pitch all along.
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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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