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The bug that was actually the debugger
The site-wide mobile clipping bug that didn't exist: headless Chrome silently clamps to a 500px floor and crops the screenshot to whatever width you asked for.
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Building in public
Notes on the software, games, and music coming out of Imperfect Systems.
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Three doors that were never locked
A null CSP, a config value joined onto a filesystem path unchecked, and a vault picker that would accept your home directory - none broken yet, all unlocked.
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Medium kept dropping my hero image, so the bridge now pastes it in
Two theories disproved at one manual import each, a paste that saved dimensions but no src, and the native file-chooser path that finally attached the image.
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Screenshots for an app that has no simulator
MusicKit returns nothing in the simulator, so the marketing screenshots came from the mock service the app already shipped - plus real cover art from the iTunes Search API.
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Dark mode, and the browser test that fought back
light-dark() made the CSS easy. Three test-tooling failures made the contrast gate hard. Then real screenshots proved the green gate wasn't the whole story.
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Removing a cooldown lock that was never true to the source
The 7-day lock on active projects was idea-incubation logic pasted onto the wrong pipeline stage. Rotation already did the useful part of the job.
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Backfilling reality into a syndication tracker
Prod said zero Medium posts. Rake tasks fixed that in minutes, but the reconciler crashed everywhere and CI failed three separate ways.
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The bug behind the bug
A broken GitHub widget traced to a paused upstream demo - and, found along the way, a hash-pinned CSP silently invalidated by a one-line accessibility fix.
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Pro-gated iCloud sync for the "Not Interested" list
A KVS blob with tombstones instead of CloudKit-everything, a decorator that keeps free users off iCloud entirely, and proving sync works with only one device.
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The syndication tracker that couldn't answer its own question
Missing status pills hid the real signal, a system test would have merged silently red, and firewall rules killed every outbound container connection.
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