Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
RSS feedA routine provider-registry refactor turned up an unvalidated param that could commit a mislicensed image to the live blog as legitimately self-hostable.
The streak and the badge computed the same concept two different ways, and imports were quietly crediting six-month-old ideas as today's creative act.
Star counts undersell infrastructure. I hand-wrote a subsection above the auto-generated cards, then found a tooling assumption that didn't survive checking.
An untracked PRD commitment with zero CI, zero path-handling audit, and zero pressure behind it - resolved in fifteen minutes by actually making the call.
A download-and-rehost pipeline for CC images: vips from a buffer, a UTF-8 force-encode that would corrupt JPEG bytes, and a stale queue mimicking a bug.
The trust gate exists because a real tap got compromised. Twenty minutes of reading the formula, the permissions, and the maintainer beat ten seconds of running the suggested command.
SQLite treats a zero-byte file as a valid fresh database, so every corruption check passed - and the backup pruning would have deleted the good copies within a week.
"Keep" set a client-side flag, and a comment promised the pick would change tomorrow. It never did. The fix: one nullable column and distrust of comments.
A monotonic counter for out-of-order refreshes, a cancelable Esc-key dialog event, and a duplicate-key crash from a timestamp that collides within a second.
Closing the hero-image loop: insert-only frontmatter patching, a guard that caught real drift on its first run, and a Turbo broadcast with no listener.
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