Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
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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.
Why Imperfect Systems is keeping a public dev log, and how the blog is wired up under the hood.
Writing the CLAUDE.md for a new iOS app before a line of Swift exists - the MusicKit-in-simulator trap, CloudKit's SwiftData rules, and why the learning-project framing came first.
Writing down the rules for what to do when CI goes red on a solo Rails project, and the GitHub limitation that turned the merge gate into a load-bearing comment.
Starting blog-manager: a Rails Blog model with Active Record Encryption for per-blog credentials, and a CRUD UI I'd actually enjoy using.