JavaScript was right about the number
Rust sent a count across JSON as an i64. JavaScript turned it into a BigInt. Then one innocent addition crashed the dashboard.
This blog could not tell you it was broken
This blog could disappear, deploy successfully, and return 200. The friendly empty state was hiding a dead content pipeline.
The feature that never ran
I sold scheduled publishing. It had never published a single post. Nothing crashed, which was the problem.
Why I Built JamWidgets
I loved when the web was open. Somewhere along the way it got complicated. You want comments on your blog? Here's a 200MB JavaScript bundle. You want email...