— Journal · API
W27 · Pin Down the Vague.
One concept, three names, three layers — so nothing lined up. This week I pinned it down.
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All posts— Reports · Tools
June · Converging the Toolchain.
June shipped no new features. It only made the existing ones hold. It may be the most valuable month of the year.
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— Journal · Fonts
W26 · Fonts Arrive First.
One Chinese typeface weighed seventeen megabytes. Split into ranges, first paint drops under one — and the page finally looks like itself.
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— Journal · Incident
W25 · A Bad Rollback.
The rollback took forty minutes. Thirty-five of them went to working out which version to roll back to.
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— Journal · API
W24 · Interfaces as Contracts.
Renamed one field. Three downstream places broke at once. A week spent re-learning the word "contract".
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