The delete that didn't delete
Three Foxstash releases in four days: encryption at rest, a free lunch that wasn't, a delete that left the data on disk, and a position that wasn't an identity
Oct 18, 20268 min read3
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Quiet has to be earned
Two months of building FoxWatch, a PC health monitor that stays silent unless there's something to do, and the five times a quiet result hadn't earned it
Oct 10, 20268 min read
My contrast check found nothing, so I broke it on purpose
An accessibility pass on my company site: a measuring tool that read every colour as black, the sanity check that caught it, and what was actually wrong
Oct 7, 20264 min read
A maintenance page is not a locked door
The first run of my company's audit found a paused product still running a critical vulnerability, CI that had failed silently for 24 days, and three wrong numbers of my own
Oct 6, 20264 min read
Classify the errors before you trust the score
A forced model swap in Mousing, nine benchmark runs, and why the expensive model's lead mostly belonged to the answer key
Oct 5, 20265 min read
I asked another tool to check my numbers. It found my bugs, not its own.
Tezcatl, an open-source C and C++ metrics tool, and what cross-checking it against lizard and gcovr turned up
Oct 4, 20265 min read
Effects, Actions, and Why Workflow Runtimes Need Side-Effect Boundaries
First published in my LinkedIn newsletter. Corsac is still a work in progress; this describes it as it was then. The annoying part of a workflow runtime isn't running code. It's knowing what code is s
Oct 3, 20269 min read
Corsac Phase 2: Closing the Runtime Gap
First published in my LinkedIn newsletter. Corsac is still a work in progress; this describes it as it was then. At the end of Corsac Phase 1, the project had crossed an important line. It was no long
Oct 3, 202610 min read
Two beliefs that parked my Go rewrite. Both were wrong.
First published in my LinkedIn newsletter. Mousing has since moved to Go in production. Last year I started a Go/Lambda rewrite of my SaaS API. Got it about 60% feature-complete. Then parked it. The t
Oct 3, 20266 min read