`mdls kMDItemLastUsedDate` returned `(null)` for Microsoft Word. I read the null as "never opened" and put Office on a removal list: 10.1 GB, four apps. One last check saved me. My home directory held 150 Office documents, a conference presentation edited two weeks earlier, and a PowerPoint lock file, which only exists while the file is open. The proof that the null was misleading had been sitting in my own diagnostic report for an hour. That was one of five. In a single day of hardening this machine, five different tools told me things that were not true. None of the answers looked like an error. Each one arrived as a clean, confident finding, and under each one a check had quietly failed or asked the wrong question. All five had the same shape underneath. Once I could name the shape, I stopped falling for it.
`env -u VAR command` did nothing. Exit code 0, no output, no error. A different command, same thing. A different variable, same thing. Any invocation that started with `env` just quietly evaporated. What finally made the problem visible was a `git init` that reported success while creating no `.git` directory at all. That was a year ago. The case closed last month, and the culprit was not uv, not some third-party installer, not anything exotic. It was this repo’s own bootstrap script. The thing that caught it was the regression test I had written for the original incident.
A reader clicking from my homepage to a post with a diagram got a block of raw mermaid source. The same reader pasting that post's URL directly got a rendered diagram. Same page, same build, same browser. The difference was the click, and the bug had been live on this site for months across every diagram, every math formula, and every chart, because I had only ever tested pages by loading them directly. 🧪 Tested with Blowfish 2.10x · htmx 2.0.10 Two features, both reasonable, one collision # This site has htmx’s hx-boost on the body: internal navigation swaps page content in place instead of doing full page loads, which keeps transitions smooth. Separately, the Blowfish theme is smart about heavy libraries: mermaid, KaTeX, and Chart.js bundles are only included on pages that use them, injected into the <head> of exactly those pages.