Writing & build logs.
Essays on software development, web builds, and AI tooling. Plus build notes from what I'm actually working on right now.
Correct answers, wrong questions: four DVLAW scope errors in 72 hours
Between 2026-06-10 and 2026-06-13, four DVLAW bugs caused cascading slot failures, auto-published style violations, and a near-duplicate article. None threw an exception. All of them were answering the wrong question correctly.
The bass mask belongs on the front layer: that's what turns the background into a different season
Moving the radial bass mask from a dark overlay to the front panorama layer changes what the effect communicates. Previously the bass revealed texture through a luminosity window. Here it cuts a hole in spring to show winter behind it — a temporal portal, not an illumination effect.
The identifiers I didn't know I'd published
Five fixes across /learning, /now, a published article, the privacy policy page, and a global pre-commit hook — all tracing back to the same root cause. Not tracking, not data harvesting. Just private names in places I'd stopped looking.
Before the first word: three architecture decisions in an 8-chapter GSC and GA4 course
An 8-chapter guide to Google Search Console and GA4 automation forced three architecture decisions before any writing started: a throwaway GCP project per reader, Steps components over prose, and inline chapter links from day one. I made the first two immediately. The third I retrofitted.
Calendar → Day → Back Landed on Accounts. The Stack Was Correct; the Model Wasn't.
A8 in the round-2 device QA pass: tapping Back from the day view skipped the full-screen calendar and landed on Accounts. The NavigationStack had done nothing wrong. The navigation model had no concept of levels.