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- The Best Way to Learn a Codebase Is to Break Someone Else'sApr 8, 2026 · 4 min readWhat maintainers of kitty, calibre, libtorrent and Fallow taught me in review threads, usually by explaining why my fix was wrong in a way I hadn't considered.
- kitty's Parallel Test Runner Said OK While Its Workers CrashedOct 6, 2026 · 9 min readA missing addSubTest and an ignored exit status let kitty's new parallel test runner report success after failures. Fixing that exposed seven segfaulting workers on my Mac, and Kovid Goyal fixed those his own way.
- Most of My Pull Requests Started as an AnnoyanceApr 8, 2026 · 3 min readDrive-by fixes in qBittorrent, Dokploy and django-hijack: which ones merged, which didn't, and what the rejections taught me about scope.