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Mining the Support Inbox for Bugs Your Crash Reporter Can’t See

July 29, 2026

A decade of support email, parsed into a local SQLite corpus and classified by agents, became a second telemetry channel - and found a silent subscription bug that produced zero crash reports.

Never Trust the Vendor’s Language List: Probing 10 APIs in 27 Languages

July 29, 2026

We live-probed every upstream data source in all 27 supported languages and found four distinct failure modes hiding behind vendor documentation.

Measuring Strings Before You Translate Them: Fixing Truncation in 22 Languages Without an App Update

July 29, 2026

Standalone Swift validators that render every localized string at its real font and compare it to a computed layout budget - turning UI truncation into a committed work-list, and then into a server-side content fix.

The Vendor Sent Gzip Without a Content-Encoding Header — and the CDN Cached It

July 29, 2026

A vendor returned raw gzip bytes in a 200 with no Content-Encoding header, CloudFront cached it for 24 hours, and 12.7k errors a day were invisible in CDN logs. The fix sniffs magic bytes at one transport chokepoint — with a hard cap on inflation, because Falcon shares one reactor.

The Agent-Doc Audit: Deleting the Fiction Your AI Has Been Believing

July 29, 2026

A four-tier audit of every agent-facing doc across three repos. Wrong content is worse than no content, because agents act on it - and deleting a quarter to a third of the corpus made the agents better.

Adversarial Review Rounds: Fresh-Context Reviewers Catch What Informed Review Can’t

July 29, 2026

Before the merge call, dispatch two or more read-only reviewer agents with deliberately different lenses and no session context - then adjudicate their findings yourself.

Server-Controlled Promo System with Offer Codes

April 03, 2026

A flexible promo architecture that uses App Store offer codes instead of introductory offers, with server-side activation and CLI-based offer management.

StoreKit 2 Implementation Guide

March 05, 2026

A complete production-ready StoreKit 2 implementation with transaction verification, real-time monitoring, persistence, and paywall UI patterns.

Research First: Using Claude Web Before Claude Code

March 04, 2026

A workflow for better decisions: deep research on Claude.ai, then implementation handoff to Claude Code with full codebase context.

Multi-Source API Adapter Pattern in Ruby

March 04, 2026

A pattern for normalizing multiple external APIs into a unified interface with automatic unit conversion.

Debugging Dependencies: Research Before Workarounds

March 04, 2026

Two patterns for working with third-party code: investigate source before guessing, and research upstream before patching.

Privacy-First Crash Reporting

March 04, 2026

A philosophy for minimal crash reporting: collect only stack traces, audit SDK updates for hidden telemetry, and verify nothing extra ships.

AI Agent Permissions: Trust but Verify

March 03, 2026

A tiered permission system for Claude Code and Codex that balances autonomy with safety.

APNS Background Refresh: Privacy Through Simplicity

February 27, 2026

How Hello Weather uses silent push notifications to refresh weather data without storing customer locations on the server.

Falcon and Ruby Async: Why Ruby Works for I/O-Bound Services

February 27, 2026

Using Falcon and async-http for fiber-based concurrency, achieving 87% latency reduction without leaving Ruby.

CloudFront Logging: Time-Boxed Investigations

February 27, 2026

Running targeted logging campaigns to investigate timeout behavior and tune per-source timeouts.

CloudFront as an Infinite Cache

February 27, 2026

Using CloudFront distributions as a caching layer between your app and upstream data providers, with careful cache key design.

Heroku Capacity: Scaling for Traffic Spikes

February 27, 2026

Dyno scaling decisions backed by data, not guesswork, with guardrails that prevent both over-provisioning and capacity crunches.

App Store Pricing: 175 Territories, One CLI

February 27, 2026

Managing App Store subscription pricing across 175 territories with PPP adjustments, offer codes, and a CLI that prevents mistakes.

Planning Skill: Living Documents, Not Project Management

February 27, 2026

A lightweight approach to planning with Claude: create plans, implement them, remove them. No project management software required.

Mono-Repo Architecture: One Rails App, Multiple Products

February 27, 2026

Using host-based routing to serve Hello Weather and WeatherMachine from a single Rails application.

Skills and Scripts: A Pattern for LLM Workflows

February 27, 2026

How pairing SKILL.md files with bin/ scripts creates powerful, reusable LLM workflows.

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February 27, 2026

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