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Harvest shelf: giving Greenhouse's released items somewhere to land
Releasing a project was write-only: the database stamped a timestamp, a badge branch could never render, and the entire payoff of the pipeline was invisible.
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Building in public
Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
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The bug that only exists under a configuration nobody uses yet
A consent package worked fine for months, until enabling Astro's view transitions exposed a stale closure that had been pointing at nothing all along.
Development
Two notes nobody ever saw
Greenhouse saved a capture note and a handoff note faithfully, but showed neither: one had no field in the wire type, the other's command was never called.
Development
Pulling sanitized prod data into dev when rsync isn't there
A rake task copies the production SQLite file down, nulls out every secret before it touches dev, and survives schema drift and a host without rsync.
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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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The fix I talked myself out of
A 'don't build this' recommendation built on two unverified assumptions, and the one-line Tauri activation-policy fix that was sitting there the whole time.
Development
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.
Development
Adding Unsplash as a second hero-image provider
Mirroring the Pexels client line for line, a fire-and-forget download-tracking ping, and a browser-controlled URL that almost got the API key attached to it.
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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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The config that got baked into every vault, forever
Stage names serialized into every config.yaml at creation time made translation and templates a per-vault migration - until the words stopped being data.
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