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What broke, what I measured, what changed.

Now and then I indulge the conceit that I can write. What follows is the evidence: engineering notes from client work and my own products, in which every figure traces to a commit, a log, or a doc.

Two names for one temp folder 537 passes on a Mac, 538 in Linux. One temp folder with two names, and a one-line fix.
The AI that ate my file handles A Mac said it was out of open files. The cause was the coding agent, and three commands proved it.
Locked out by my own fortress GameKal's Home page went from about 20 seconds to 1.8 by serving a public catalog as files instead of guarding every read.
Measure before you restyle A redesign made the portfolio's Work page 653 KB of HTML. Measuring it found one decoration responsible for 37% of that, and one change cut the page by 29%.
Icons are a performance budget too Switching to SVG is where icon performance starts, not where it ends. Ten small fixes, sorted by what they actually cost you, and the one rule that decides which of them to use.
A redirect is not a DNS record www.jodriscoll.com returned Cloudflare error 522 while the bare domain worked. The fix was one Redirect Rule, after a detour through Wrangler error 100117.
One source, many front ends The portfolio keeps a single record of the work and translates it for nine front ends: WordPress, Drupal, React, Angular and more. Drafts and private notes never leave.

I'm listening if you're talking

A bug, a new build, a data question, a site that needs to be faster or a full rebuild. Tell me what's going on.

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