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Building Greenhouse: the rules engine that came before the app existed
A full Rust rules engine and 22 tests, written before Greenhouse had a UI or even a working Rust toolchain, and what broke the moment it finally compiled.
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Building in public
Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
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Starting a dev log
Why Imperfect Systems is keeping a public dev log, and how the blog is wired up under the hood.
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Sharing an Astro blog across two sites
You can't extract a blog, but you can extract its components: a token contract for two palettes, and the two CI bites that never happen on a laptop.
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The status that nothing ever wrote (Greenhouse engine dev log)
A rules engine that looked finished hid a status nothing ever set, backwards sorts, an unenforced constraint, and a settings file that could brick the app.
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The last native publisher: finishing the Postiz consolidation
Medium's native integration was a museum exhibit. A browser bridge, an article whose body is a URL, and minus 1,603 lines.
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Racing the main actor: when await is the race condition
@MainActor eliminates data races, not interleaving races. A generation token, a stale-failure guard, and a deterministic race test with no sleeps.
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Dark mode in an afternoon when your CSS is already tokens (and the false alarm that wasn't)
A whole dark theme by redefining CSS variables under one class, and 45 minutes spent proving a five-line toggle innocent.
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"Looks the same to me"
A UI redesign, a review comment that named the exact property I never touched, and what it takes to actually fix what someone reports instead of what's around it.
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My mocks couldn't fail: error injection and a Swift 6 isolation crash
Every catch branch was dead code in tests. A 15-line failure seam fixed that, and then one unannotated test suite took down the whole runner.
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Add a feature, or move a responsibility?
Adding Postiz social cross-posting looked done until a blunt question exposed a double-post bug, and a full audit of every posting path in the app found two more like it.
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