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Vite Dev Server in Production: The 871-Byte Tell

scorecardecho.com shipped the Vite dev server to every visitor. Three signals catch it in a minute; a multi-stage Dockerfile fixes it for any SPA container.

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Technical Deep-Dive

CI gap: shellcheck + ruff caught 4 findings

Plugin scripts had zero lint coverage. Added shellcheck + ruff to CI; caught four issues on first run. Behavior tests missed them.

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Technical Deep-Dive

CodeQL Caught the Race I Dismissed

Static analyzer caught a real TOCTOU race in audit-trail code I'd dismissed. How FD-based patterns beat suppression and lock-free approaches.

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Technical Deep-Dive

The Unicode Layer Your Validator Can't See

Schema validation can't see invisible Unicode. A stdlib-only CI gate that catches tag-char injection, Trojan Source bidi overrides, and homoglyph attacks.

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Self-Expiring Report-Only CI Gates: From Advisory to Enforced

How a meta-gate enforces deadline-driven CI hardening without freezing contributors — one logical concern per PR, permanent blocking by design.

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Technical Deep-Dive

Safety Model First: 16-Tool Ops MCP, One Day

Design a 7-point safety model before writing tools. How server-ops-mcp shipped 16 tools, 40 tests, and v0.1.0 in a single day.

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Technical Deep-Dive

FTS5 Fallback: How Zero Search Results Became Five (ICO Dogfood Day One)

First real dog-food run of Intentional Cognition OS scored 0/5 question engagement against a corpus that contained every answer. Root cause: AND-only FTS5 query construction plus a possessive normalization order-of-operations bug. Fix: strict-then-broad fallback. Result: 5/5, 28 citations, ~$0.20.

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Technical Deep-Dive

Ship Dormant, Wire Later — A Multi-Agent Slack Production Day

Ship infrastructure dormant behind feature flags. The activation day is wiring plus a CLI — eleven PRs, six dormant primitives going live in one day.

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Technical Deep-Dive

Five Tags, Zero Ships: How an Auto-Release Workflow Lied for a Whole Day

Five GitHub release tags created. npm registry unchanged. Three discrete bugs: tests silenced with || true, monorepo version drift, missing npm publish step.

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Technical Deep-Dive

A v1.0 Is a Gate, Not a Tag

Why release gates should accept GO with conditions, not binary GO/NO-GO. How ICO v1.0.0 shipped with documented gaps and a same-day v1.0.1.

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