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We had one API input schema declared twice. A Zod schema validated requests on the npm package path....

We had a bug that only fired sometimes, and "sometimes" turned out to be a coin flip on webhook...

I spent a year writing posts that were technically true and completely unreadable. "Learned a lot...

A vendor API we integrate with sends a field called publicaly_available_post_id. That is not a typo...

I ran a 50/50 homepage split for a couple of weeks. The arm counts came back 178 to 57. That is not...

For about four months I ran what I thought was a content distribution system. I wrote one post,...

I spent about a year being bad at Instagram before I admitted the problem wasn't the platform. I'd...

A user reported that a feature had stopped working. Classic regression report: "we used to have X,...

Every "post every day" attempt I made died the same way: strong Monday, decent Tuesday, gone by...

We added drag-and-drop rescheduling to our social media calendar (Next.js + dnd-kit, Rails API behind...

I market my SaaS through social posts, and for a year my pattern was: strong posting week, busy build...

I spent months drafting social posts with AI to stay consistent as a solo founder. The posts shipped...

Short answer: sometimes. Reposting your own tweet on X can squeeze a little extra reach out of a post...

Landing page attribution breaks the moment a user hits an OAuth flow. Here's the scenario: you're...

Last month I migrated XreplyAI from hardcoded gtag snippets to Google Tag Manager. One container....

For the first year of building XreplyAI, our tracking setup was the standard mess: gtag scripts in...

Sometimes the bug isn't in the code it's in the flow. We have a thread editor in XreplyAI (Rails API...