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Building NICHLYST: The 14-Day Clock, the "Web App" Illusion, and Hardening the Archive
15+ min ago (463+ words) On September 10th, at 10:19 AM, the system finally turned green. Twelve confirmed, opt-in testers. The threshold is met. The 14-day Google Play closed testing clock is officially locked. For the next two weeks, NICHLYST sits in a state of anabiosis. My…...
Polar sandbox vs live webhooks — why checkout works and entitlements do not
22+ min ago (794+ words) Checkout can succeed and your app can still treat the buyer as a free user. On Polar that usually means the webhook landed in the wrong world — sandbox secret on a live deploy, production endpoint still pointed at last night’s…...
Data Modelling, Relationships & Joins in PowerBI
10+ min ago (595+ words) Introduction Data Modelling in Power BI is about organizing data into tables and defining... Tagged with analytics, data, database....
My release smoke test passed on the message that says it failed
21+ min ago (607+ words) Here is the step, as it had been since the first release: Read the last line on its own. It passes when the released version appears anywhere in the output. Now read what npm prints when the version is not…...
Software Engineering Isn't Dead (We're Just Writing Specs Now)
22+ min ago (323+ words) "Software Engineering is programming integrated over time." AI is insane at churning out code... Tagged with ai, programming, softwareengineering, productivity....
Reciprocal Tester Exchange vs Marketplace: Which Works?
14+ min ago (1184+ words) When I was trying to publish my first Android app on a personal developer account created after November 13, 2023, I ran straight into Google Play's 14-day testing rule. Google requires personal accounts to have at least 12 opted-in testers who keep the…...
Why I Built cost-guard-mcp: Pre-Flight Cost Guardrails for AI Agents Talking to Data Warehouses
14+ min ago (747+ words) The query that shouldn't have run Give an AI agent a warehouse MCP server and, sooner or... Tagged with aiengineering, mcp, python, opensource....
How to Obfuscate a.NET App in GitHub Actions (CI/CD)
12+ min ago (359+ words) This guide shows the full workflow with Nebula.NET, but the pattern applies to any CLI-based.NET obfuscator..NET compiles to IL, which decompiles back to near-original C# in seconds (try it in ILSpy). Obfuscation rewrites that IL so it's…...
tracehub-mcp: Giving AI Assistants a Real Query Interface Into Your LLM Traces
12+ min ago (102+ words) The Copy-Paste Problem Here's what debugging an LLM application looks like for most... Tagged with aiengineering, mcp, observability, opensource....
My duplicate-code detector flagged the check I had just written. I deleted the duplication, not the rule.
6+ min ago (415+ words) A detector in my build looks for repeated code shapes. It caught a ten-line window shared between two checks that I had written deliberately, days apart, believing them to be different. They were not different. They were the same shape…...