The grid that would not behave
A desktop-first photo tool reviewed mostly from a phone, and the CSS grid that refused to behave on the one screen it was being judged on.
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Developer-Experience
House rules
Running three different coding agents against one repository, and the house rules that stopped them undoing each other's work.
A flag is not a setting
Reviewing a scaffolder turned up a command name that quietly conflated two different things. A flag and a setting are not the same object.
Errors without an error handler
Go funnels errors through a handler. In Rust, diagnostics carry their own code and help and propagate on their own, so the funnel disappears.
Errors that tell the user what to do next
Recovery advice belongs in a structured error hint, not buried in the message string. One error handler then decides how to show it.
Scaffolding that respects your edits
How a Go scaffolder can re-run safely: hash every generated file, overwrite what is untouched, and prompt before it stands on your edits.
