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Green, and Injectable

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I wrote a test for the one thing I had never thought to check, and it failed. Nothing my application rendered had ever been escaped, on any page, while every...

Everything Before the Click

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Every tool my agent had until now could be run twice with no consequence. Adding one that puts something in my actual Amazon cart changed what the code aroun...

Sold Separately

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I typed t.timestamps into a Hanami migration out of twenty years of habit, and it blew up. Declaring the two columns by hand fixed that and fixed nothing, be...

Fresh Forever

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Three bugs in the same twenty lines, each one created by the fix before it. The last was the good one: two behaviours that are correct on their own, and toge...

One Layer Thick

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I wrote the validations, the database had its constraints, and I assumed the two of them covered the ground between. Then I measured what each one actually r...