tooling
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A setting that turns itself off
A question about rebooting a laptop from outside turned, over three messages, into a different question, and then into sixty lines of shell whose only job is to undo a firmware setting when nobody remembers to. Neither half of that would have happened alone.
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The app had never stood on its own, and the check that said it could was asking the wrong subject
A macOS app that had launched fine for weeks stopped launching the day I renamed the directory it was built in. It had not broken. It had been borrowing its resources from my development tree the entire time, and the build script's self-check was verifying the script rather than the program.
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My selftest said 3/3. One of the three had never fired.
Four measurements lied to me in a single day of shipping, and every one of them lied in the shape of a result. The worst was a gate that proved itself — by counting an unrelated failure as a catch.