Journal · 4 posts
Engineering
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14 min
The Upgrade Path Is a Product DecisionAtelier is built for people who have never heard of Drupal and will never open a terminal. That single fact turns 'it upgrades itself' into a veto over the dependency list — and a refactor where I had to say no to modules we wanted, delete code we were proud of, and start reading other people's roadmaps.
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17 min
The LLM Read Every Register. The Answer Was a Smell.I gave an AI agent full access to a broken robot. It ran better experiments than I would have, ruled out six causes by measurement, and then wrote 'definitively exonerated' about a part it had no way to inspect. Every correction came from something I knew and it structurally could not — and one of its confident errors nearly went out in a warranty claim.
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7 min
Your llms.txt Isn't Being Ignored — Your Analytics Just Can't See ItA recurring claim: 'I added llms.txt and nothing reads it — zero hits.' Almost every time, the zero comes from checking the wrong instrument. Client-side analytics is structurally blind to a plaintext file fetched by a bot. Here's why, and where the real answer lives.
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7 min
Why I Don't Trust the Submit Button ToggleThe day I stopped writing classList.toggle('enabled') around an async submit and started deriving the button's state from the form. A walk through why toggle is a weaker promise than set — and why even set is wrong, just more slowly.