Writing

Notes from real projects

Not tutorials. What broke, what I tried, and what it taught me — written for whoever hits the same thing next.

September 2, 2026
The symlink that expired five months later
A one-line rename in VS Code broke extension testing on macOS — but not for five months, and not where the change was made. What that delay taught me about hardcoding other people's names.
- debugging
- open source
- macos
- vs code