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Everything else I've written — the older notes, in full.
From merged pull requests to a performance review
Merged pull requests already record what you did. Turning them into a work log with an LLM is easy; the hard part is the defensive rules that stop it corrupting the vault.
On console warnings and the things we don't remove
Removing unused documentation tooling and fixing prop type warnings: small changes that don't ship features but make the codebase a bit more honest.
Two kinds of correctness: currency bugs and ghost feature flags
A currency display bug in the exchange flow and a feature flag referencing something that never existed in production. Two different kinds of silent incorrectness.
The shape of shared libraries
A shared library is defined by the shape it presents to its dependents. Two cases make that concrete: an icon component used through an undeclared path, and a one-line logging change that quietly broke a numeric assumption.
Three quiet bugs hiding in a cross-service feature
Shipping a feature across four services meant coordinating an AI backend, a fare search service, and two frontend components. Along the way: a silent configuration bug, a duplicate event contract, and an HTML injection path.
The scaffolding tax: getting a new service properly bootstrapped
Bootstrapping a new service from a template isn't just renaming things; it's wiring it into the deployment pipeline, getting dependency management right, and building the scaffolding that makes all future work faster.