One Project, One Global Scope: The Apps Script Collision That Hides in Plain Sight
Two files in the same Apps Script project each declared a list called the same thing. The values matched, so everything worked — until the day someone edited one copy and not the other.
We Built CI Governance for a Team We Didn’t Have
Over a quarter we grew a careful set of governance workflows. Over a week we deleted almost all of them. The bill was the trigger — but the autopsy found something more useful than an overspend.
Why a Merged Branch Suddenly Conflicts: Squash-Merge Divergence
You squash-merged a branch cleanly, kept working on the same branch, opened a new pull request — and it says CONFLICTING, on files nobody else touched. The branch isn't broken; squash merge quietly spent it.
The Anti-Eye Rule: Why Your Centered Hero Starts Staring Back
Put a glowing core in the middle of a darker ring and something unsettling happens — the image looks like an eye. It's not a rendering bug; it's your own visual system, and the fix is compositional.
We Lost an Image Bake-off to Gemini’s SVG, Then Our Code Kit Closed the Gap
Our code-drawn hero kit and Gemini, writing SVG for the same subjects, went head to head. Gemini won the hard-science rounds. So we read why it won, rewrote the kit, and ran those rounds again.