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The folder that stayed put
A code review turned up an invariant Greenhouse's adopt/import feature quietly broke, and the fix that made it boring again.
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Building in public
Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
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Featured albums, real MusicKit data, and a test that lied about passing
There's no isEssential flag - Essentials is a song playlist. featuredAlbums is the real signal, and a fixture change exposed a test nobody had re-run.
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A per-blog toggle, and when not to "fix" a bug
A boolean threaded through four layers, and three independent reviews agreeing on a finding I deliberately didn't fix, since the cache is the dedup mechanism.
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The blog that couldn't publish on a schedule
A batch pipeline design that started with a five-minute substrate check: future-dated posts weren't hidden, they were 404s, and nothing ever rebuilt the site.
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The scan that offered to import itself
An import scanner found the app's own scaffolding, then re-offered a folder it had just imported - two versions of one missing conversation.
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The dialog that closed itself before I could use it
A callback renamed to something generic kept its wizard-specific meaning, and the same signal meant two different things to two different listeners.
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Debugging a hidden checkbox on Medium's real UI
A zero-sized invisible input behind a styled toggle, a disabled state that silently eats clicks, and verification against the live page instead of my own logs.
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Shipping Greenhouse's release pipeline on a security camera's Mac Mini
A self-hosted macOS build runner sharing a box with an NVR, a DMG bundler that drives Finder through AppleScript, and the env var that overrode my env var.
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Adding a Listmonk newsletter integration to blog-manager
Why a newsletter batch needed its own model instead of reusing the 1:1 post-sync pattern, plus Listmonk's odd auth scheme and a Brakeman quirk.
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A tracklist section, and why it took 30 minutes
One protocol method, a reused state enum, a routing convention that held, and a lint budget that forced a split worth making anyway.
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