Notes
176 entriesMisc. et al.
2026
October
- A buoy is visited, just slowly and at a cost
- Nine pull requests for seven words
- One sentence of news, and the pill that failed contrast
- A 38 second nap after a two second wait
- Killing our own voter in orbit, on purpose
- A cap checked once per tick, and a tick that took three seconds
- A fault that left no line, and a chart that could not mark it
- The same 2,745 results, 520 kilometers up
- The TODO comments were in the page source
- The low priority that made the mark late
- One HTML file, printed as one page or two
- The files macOS tar adds, and then hides
- Two lines where 52,000 were, and the resume that wrote one twice
- A run of weeks, cut to five minutes
- Wordmarks as outlines, at the lockup's size
- A checkpoint that survived, and a log that lost its own resumes
- A required check is a name, not a job
- A test input of zero cannot see a bit stuck at zero
- An errata section, and three DOIs in one day
- A model checked against the code, and not calibrated by it
- Fixed TMR is one baseline, not the default
- Parity broken on purpose
- Seven minutes of checks, three at a time
- A font axis the site did not need, and two megabytes of logo
- One retry before paging, and one all clear after
- A mission clock, and finding the second it started
- A firewall window killed by a theme change
- An Alt+Tab that only ever reached two windows
- A health rule that retired healthy hardware
- Two owners of the screen tint, and the one that woke up late
- Changing my name everywhere it was written
- A cached page that handed every reader someone else's token
- The same 99 euros every few days, from a dollar figure that drifted
- The first unattended run, and the bookkeeping that broke it
- Under 14,000 is not 13,834
- A bill for a million writes, after 23,267 of them
- The lookup that cached no, and the check that caused it
- GitHub strips the CSS, so the README is a picture of the site
September
- Taking the speakers over, and stopping only my own stream
- A quorum that outlives its ground team
- A fare only on a day the nonstop flies
- A hub where nothing asks first, and what still can say no
- A rollback tested against nothing, and six copies in 23 minutes
- Safeguards that caused the condition they were measuring
- The pool that paid the most, and the question it answered
- A breaker only a person could reset, and a buyer who got a 500
- The ledger wrote down the plan, not what happened
- A laptop that died asleep, and a grep that found nothing
- Checks that could not fail, and a guard that could not act
- A chime with no machine awake, and a thousand writes to spend
- One reference, and three numbers that were guessed instead
- Three seams in a twelve-second loop
- Two deduplication windows, because the idle notice arrives late
- An undocumented ceiling, and the only paging on offer
- Six weeks looking for a signal, and what was left when there wasn't one
- Redacting network identifiers from a debug report
- The two-pointer merge that never reached the chart file
- Four sets of vendor claims, and why none of them can be ranked
- Streaming transcription, speaker labels and endpointing from open weights on a CPU
August
- Forking the Farcaster client: what you actually need
- Mail configuration as desired state, with a credential-free drift gate
- Measuring oracle staleness against a market that never closes
- Testing a content corpus like code, so an unsourced fact fails the build
- Selling placement instead of advice, in a directory companies claim by domain
- One page, seven files, and the two that decide whether it deploys
- Custom domains on GitHub Pages: five absolute URLs and one DNS setting
- A daily report on a systemd timer instead of a crontab line
- Manifest V3 never killed cosmetic filtering
- Keeping the model out of the verdict path