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CI You Can Afford to Run on Every Push
Closing real CI gaps while treating runner minutes as a budget: hermetic Playwright e2e, measured coverage gates, and the gate we refused to add.
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Thoughts on AI-powered changelog generation, developer tools, and building in public.
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The 477-Megabyte Build Context
A routine Fly deploy was uploading a 477 MB Docker build context. On dockerignore semantics, silent deploy waste, and the fix that cut it to about 3 MB.
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Why Review-Before-Publish Is Free
Review before publishing used to be a Pro feature. Why paywalling the safety check on AI output was backwards, and what changed when we ungated it.
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Two Test Suites, One Database
A shared local test DB, parallel worktree agents, and an Alembic catalog collision. Why a 30-line POSIX file lock beat per-run databases.
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A Changelog Generator Must Not Invent Features
Why a hallucinated release note is the worst failure for an AI changelog tool, and the three invariants KittyLog holds its generation pipeline to.
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Pricing Copy Drifts Unless It's Generated
Our blog and README contradicted our own pricing page. How KittyLog now generates pricing constants from one YAML file instead of transcribing them.
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No Testimonial Beats a Fake One
For seven months KittyLog's README carried a quote from "Happy Customer," who never existed. How filler proof survives, and why absence beats invention.
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When the Database Stops Matching the Migrations
KittyLog's production schema drifted from its Alembic chain: twelve timestamp columns, one stamped migration, and a guard that fails closed.
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The Changelog That Logged Zero Tokens
KittyLog's usage metering broke silently for most of a day while changelogs kept shipping. What a zero-token day taught us about alarming the meter.
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Why KittyLog Has a Worker Behind Its Pages Domain
A look at the OpenNext migration, the Pages compatibility proxy, and the deployment checks that keep the front door stable.
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A Release Note Needs a Destination
What an opt-in GitHub Release integration taught us about event seams, ownership markers, and leaving human notes alone.
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When the Blog Queue Runs Dry, the Repository Should Tell You
A queue-health issue can make the boundary between finished content, scheduled posts, and human editorial judgment visible.
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The Case for Automated Changelogs
Changelogs are the most neglected piece of developer docs. Automation is not just convenient; it is the only way to keep them accurate.
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Stop Writing Changelogs by Hand. Let AI Do It Instead.
For too many teams the changelog workflow is scrolling through 200 commits and writing something probably wrong. There is a better way.
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