Software I've built, maintained, or had to apologise for. Mostly about durability — why the boring choice usually outlives the clever one.
A file-lock error that wasn't a file lock at all. Tracing Claude Desktop's Windows launch failure down to a leaked AppX container handle — and why the fix was to stop using MSIX entirely.
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