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Releases, notes, and the occasional deep dive. Mostly releases.

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2026-08-15

The schemas are the documentation

One rule about Zod, enforced nineteen times by nineteen copies of the same walk. They drifted, and the worst of them passed by not looking.

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2026-08-13

Zero of twenty-five conversations

One schema, two consumers, and why a strict enum is correct for the Worker that wrote it and wrong for the client that reads it.

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2026-08-11

Ada@ and ada@ are the same person

Two primitives that look too small to be worth writing about — and the bugs they cause, which never look like they are about email addresses or version numbers.

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2026-08-03

The worker says: unknown

A string written out in four places, a name truncated against a limit that does not exist, and what both have in common.

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2026-07-31

Twelve testers, fourteen days, and no screen that tells you

Google Play's closed-test requirement, run from your own event log — with every count honestly labeled an estimate, because no API exposes the real one.