Things we build. Things we break.
And everything we learn along the way.
One plausible wrong config key left every Chrome flag I set unread for nearly six months, hidden by two lines in an old deploy script. When the deploy changed, Chrome died in a tenth of a second in my rebuild and Ferrum waited ninety. The receipts...
One plausible wrong config key left every Chrome flag I set unread for nearly six months, hidden by two lines in an old deploy script. When the deploy changed, Chrome died in a tenth of a second in my rebuil...
When enhancement work spans multiple applications and rendering services, how do you systematically verify that everything was implemented correctly? This article describes a methodology where parallel resea...
Discover an elegant pattern for Rails controller validation logic using `performed?` checks after each validation method. This approach keeps validation logic focused and testable while maintaining clear con...
Bot scanners probing for .env files, AWS credentials, and WordPress admin panels were triggering CSRF exceptions and database queries deep in the Rails stack. A purpose-built Rack middleware intercepts these...