In-Band Terminal Multiplexing Considered Harmful
A consideration of why the reliability of a terminal environment is a decreasing function of the density of in-band multiplexers.
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10⁻¹X Engineer stuff.
Why a static button can time out in Playwright
Playwright's click stability check depends on animation frames, even when the target button is static.
Cutting Tauri CI in half: the APT scaffolding tax, clippy metadata, and cargo-nextest
How caching desktop sysdeps saved 48 seconds in Shitty, and why parallelizing Clippy with cargo-nextest cut DeepBlock's CI from 10 minutes to 5.
Shipping DeepBlock 0.2.0: a verified Tauri release pipeline on GitHub Actions
The eight-job workflow that builds, installs, and byte-verifies a Tauri release across macOS and Debian, and the gotchas that shaped every guard in it.
Pi 1.0 and Gondolin: Codemode, Pi Durable, and a Clean 3-Tier Sandbox
How I run Pi 1.0.4 on the host, experiment with Durable sessions, and isolate regular Pi in Gondolin without per-tool wrappers.
Dagger vs native GitHub Actions for a Tauri app: a same-commit CI comparison
I ran the same CI checks through Dagger containers and native mise-driven GitHub Actions on the same commit, and measured a 78% test-time cut once the Rust cache actually stayed warm.
Fixing a 45-minute CI hang in Tauri WebDriver native tests
How a DeepBlock release job went from a 45-minute timeout to a two-second failure exit, in one afternoon of trial and error with runner disk space, APT stalls, and duplicate builds.
Two git config lines that make status incremental
Setting core.fsmonitor and core.untrackedCache makes git status check only what changed instead of walking the whole worktree.
git add --resolved stages conflict fixes without the rest
Git 2.56 adds an add mode that stages only unmerged paths and refuses files that still contain conflict markers.
Git 2.56 ships branch --delete-merged: why my gbm and gbdm shell helpers stay
Git 2.56 can now sweep merged local branches natively, but its ancestry-only check misses the squash merges and rebased patches my workflow produces, so my shell helpers stay.
Two Proton Pass CLI PAT Gotchas: --pat Argv Exposure and Rotation Limits
pass-cli login --pat exposes the token in argv and shell history, PAT-authenticated sessions cannot manage PATs, and a rotated token that never reaches the Keychain silently breaks auto-renewal.
The Belt-and-Suspenders Check That Deadlocked My Nvim
A duplicate socket-registration call made nvim probe its own RPC server with a blocking child process, freezing nvim and kitty-scrollback launches.
Replacing ESLint with Oxlint in an Astro site
How I migrated an Astro blog from ESLint and typescript-eslint to type-aware Oxlint, and why astro check still blocks TypeScript 7 here.
pnpm 12 audit is CPU-bound, not network-bound
pnpm audit got ~60x slower in 12.x and the fix starts with checking user CPU time, not the registry.
Migrating a Tauri app to TypeScript 7 and Oxlint
How I replaced ESLint and typescript-eslint with Oxlint to unlock the native TypeScript 7 compiler in a Vite + Tauri repo.