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import.meta.glob is a Vite feature, not a standard

NoteSeptember 6, 20222 min read

Globbing imports removes an index file that had to be maintained by hand, and it ties the code to one bundler. The lazy form code-splits per entry with…

Bus::batch, and the completion callback that is not a job

NoteSeptember 6, 20221 min read

A batch gives progress and a completion hook for a set of jobs, and the callbacks run on the worker that finished the last one. The callbacks are…

A read-through cache that stampedes exactly once

Deep diveAugust 24, 202210 min read

A cache entry expired at 09:00 and four hundred requests recomputed it. A latency spike every hour, exactly on the hour.

Bootstrap 5.2, CSS variables, and a theme that stopped being a fork

Deep diveAugust 17, 202210 min read

5.2 in July, and custom properties throughout the components. A Sass fork that had to be rebased on every patch release.

Reading someone else’s language well enough to review it

NoteAugust 12, 20222 min read

A polyglot system needs more than one person able to read each part, and that is a lower bar than being able to write it. Setting the bar…

Composer audit, and the advisory that was already fixed

Deep diveAugust 8, 202210 min read

2.4 in August, and an audit command in the tool that already knows. A separate scanner reporting on a lock file it half understood.

An admin panel that was a security boundary

Deep diveAugust 2, 202210 min read

/admin on the same hostname, behind a login form. A support engineer with the same session cookie as a customer.

Vue 2.7 exists so you do not have to migrate yet

Deep diveJuly 28, 202210 min read

July, and the Composition API backported to the 2.x line. 214 components and no appetite for a big-bang rewrite.

Backups and erasure have no clean answer

NoteJuly 26, 20222 min read

A backup is an immutable snapshot by design, and deleting one row from one is either impossible or defeats the purpose of having it. The third option is…

A GDPR deletion request across eleven tables

Deep diveJuly 4, 202214 min read

A request arrived and nobody could say where the data was. Personal data in eleven tables, three of them denormalised copies.