Blog
2026
- four ways to break a five-line cmd scripta duplicate /d flag in fnm's cmd hook, and why the obvious fixes all fail: parentheses, setlocal, and goto each break batch in a different way.
- retries make chat messages twinsa mobile client on a bad network will send your mutation twice. idempotency keys are the boring, correct fix, and the details are where the work is.
- the corruption came from the searchan unreproducible corruption bug in openplc editor, and what happens when a decorated html string becomes an element's identity.
- the same stylesheet, shipped twiceastro's server output builds your site twice, and tailwind makes the two copies of your css different enough that content hashing cannot deduplicate them.
- only one of apollo's cache writes rolls backoptimistic responses, manual cache updates, and a difference between them that shows up as a bug much later.
- the clipboard race every dictation app hasevery local dictation tool pastes your previous clipboard sometimes. the fix is not a longer sleep, and my first attempt at it was wrong.