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Field Notes
Short reports from whatever broke this week.
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total 20 posts, newest first
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Mara Voss
2026-11-07
Rebasing Without Fear
What actually happens to your commits, and how to get them back.
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Ilya Kessler
2026-11-07
Replacing a Transient With Post Meta
One cached value per post, already loaded with the post, and one less query.
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Jonas Whitlock
2026-11-06
Debouncing Is Not a Personality
When to wait, when to throttle, and when to just do less work.
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Ilya Kessler
2026-11-06
Things I Would Tell Myself at 3am
Short, practical and mostly about going to bed.
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Mara Voss
2026-11-05
Why We Stopped Using Tabs in Config
A YAML parser taught us a lesson at the worst possible hour.
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Mara Voss
2026-11-05
Narrowing Unknown the Boring Way
Type guards, written plainly, beat clever generics at two in the morning.
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Ilya Kessler
2026-11-04
Nil, Null & Other Late-Night Surprises
A short field report on an empty value that was not actually empty.
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Mara Voss
2026-11-04
Pagination Without paginate_links
A windowed page list in one small function and no regular expressions.
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Jonas Whitlock
2026-11-04
The Cost of One More Web Font
Measured on a cheap phone on a slow connection.
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Priya Hale
2026-11-04
Tab Order Is a Design Decision
If you have not pressed Tab on it, you have not finished it.
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Odette Lang
2026-11-03
Unions Over Enums, Mostly
A small preference with a surprisingly large effect on the bundle.
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Tomasz Reyes
2026-11-03
A Surprisingly Long Explanation of Why the Sticky Header Jumped Exactly Once on Every Page Load on Phones
The title is the short version.
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Odette Lang
2026-11-03
Docker for the Reluctant
Just enough containers to run the same thing twice.
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Mara Voss
2026-11-02
A Build Step Nobody Remembered Writing
We found a shell script running in CI that no one could explain, so we read it.
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Ilya Kessler
2026-11-02
Promises You Forgot to Await
A lint rule, a production bug and a short apology.
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Tomasz Reyes
2026-11-02
The Query That Only Failed on Tuesdays
A scheduled report, a missing index and a very patient database.
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Ilya Kessler
2026-11-02
Generics, but Only Where They Help
Three examples worth writing and two worth deleting.
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Priya Hale
2024-05-16
Three Lines of Logging
The note I left for myself that saved the next incident.
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Priya Hale
2024-05-13
The Pager Went Off During Dinner
An hour-by-hour account of a very small outage.
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Tomasz Reyes
2024-04-28
Protected: Crew Only: Next Quarter
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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