An Expressive Code plugin that labels command output — the gutter API and the copy payload
Building an Expressive Code plugin for Astro that marks command output: the gutter element API, plugin ordering, and rewriting the copy button payload.
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A GitHub Action that patches the pnpm advisories Dependabot cannot — via a GitHub App token
Dependabot cannot update transitive dependencies on pnpm. Building the GitHub Action that patches them, and why its credential decided the design.
A stale TypeScript server reported TS5097 on a correct file — deleting the .ts then broke the script
A stale TypeScript server reported TS5097 on a correct import, and deleting the .ts broke a Node script while tsc stayed green. The cause was a failed extends.
Why GNU Make beats a root-level package.json in a Python and TypeScript monorepo
GNU Make as a task runner for a polyglot repo: prerequisite composition npm scripts cannot express, CI calling the same targets, and GNU Make 3.81 on macOS.
A GitHub Actions job that mints its own Cognito M2M token to test what it just deployed
GitHub OIDC gives CI an AWS identity, but a JWT-authorized MCP endpoint needs a second one: a Cognito client_credentials token read from terraform output.
A hand-authored, self-verifying CSP for Astro on Vercel — after security.csp broke offline support
Astro's own security.csp feature silently breaks service-worker registration. A hand-authored CSP for Astro on Vercel, verified by CI and a real browser.
Marp vs Reveal.js built from identical content — Markdown slides vs an HTML framework
Building the same deck in Marp and Reveal.js: source readability at 243 vs 287 lines, the animation gap, export formats, and which one fits which job.
Pausable looping video in an Astro blog — WCAG 2.2.2 rules out GIF, iOS rules out VP9
A GIF cannot be paused, so WCAG 2.2.2 ruled it out. MP4 then beat the smaller VP9 on iOS hardware decode. The encode recipe, the guards, and the tests.
A Claude Code translation pipeline adds a fluency gate — modeled on Andrew Ng's reflection pattern
An outside review caught defects in a zh-TW translation this Claude Code pipeline's QA never checked for; the fix adds a research-grounded Section C gate.
This blog's articles were too narrow and small on desktop — dev.to fixed it, and found a CJK bug
Astro article pages ran narrow and small at 68ch/17px. Widening them against dev.to's own numbers also fixed a CJK line-length bug the ch unit had hidden.
Bedrock DELETE_UNSUCCESSFUL — the knowledge base needs its OpenSearch collection to delete
Two Amazon Bedrock knowledge bases stuck at DELETE_UNSUCCESSFUL after their OpenSearch Serverless collections were deleted first, and the RETAIN fix.
Two SQL shapes that stopped a text-to-SQL agent doing arithmetic in prose — ROLLUP and scalar subqueries
A text-to-SQL agent broke a written rule against adding rows by hand. GROUP BY ROLLUP and scalar subqueries fixed it by deleting the step, not the rule.