1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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