Journal
Journal
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October 10, 2026
Its For You is out
Released through Amuse, on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music and Deezer.
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September 22, 2026
the daw had no ears
Reading every setting out of a song file turned out to be the easy half. Hearing the mix needed a plugin - and a plugin needed a compiler, which this machine did not have.
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September 15, 2026
the code was the clean part
A security audit of the thing I'm building. The credential handling held up. What didn't was a folder git didn't ignore, a permission step I documented instead of enforcing, and a comment that promised…
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September 15, 2026
the wheel didn’t carry it
I wrote here that the license notice travels inside the built package. Then I built it, and it wasn't in there.
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September 15, 2026
the name was in the metadata
I stripped a codebase so it could be sold as a product. The name turned up inside a file I had already deleted, and the license notice was the one thing that had to…
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September 15, 2026
the terminal said it worked
PowerShell ate every line I typed and handed back a prompt. No error. No warning. The reports were confident, and some of them were wrong.
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September 15, 2026
the grep found the prose
Six references to the folder I deleted were in prose. The one that would actually have broken was assembled at runtime, so the grep missed it.
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September 15, 2026
three copies of the same file
The same skeleton existed in three places, and the same protocol spec existed in two wordings that disagreed.
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September 15, 2026
every post was written by admin
The byline said admin, the journal posts carried no structured data, and the search page was asking to be indexed.
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September 15, 2026
files with backslashes in their names
Two files on the server had Windows paths for names, which made them impossible to delete with any tool I had.
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