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Notes from building it.
Engineering write-ups, mostly about things that went wrong and what the fix turned out to be. If a post is about a bug, it is one of ours.
Engineering2026-08-03 · 4 min
We said 81 permissions. It was 352.
A marketing page made a specific, checkable claim about our own product. Nobody had checked it. Here is what auditing every number on the site turned up.
read →Incident2026-08-01 · 6 min
The reset that dropped every database
A server-reset playbook had no filter on which databases it destroyed. The fix was not a better filter — it was making the operation show its work before doing any.
Engineering2026-07-30 · 5 min
The bloom pass was eating the alpha channel
A transparent WebGL canvas that refused to be transparent, a dot grid that kept disappearing, and why the fix is two extra render passes rather than a setting.