Engineering

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Trust No Slicer: Proving the Printer Innocent with curl

Debugging two Orca Slicer failures with curl and raw FTPS logs instead of trusting the dialog box: a method for isolating what actually broke.

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Everything Is Fine: The Comfortable Lie of Green CI Pipelines and 100% Test Coverage

Why a 100% green test suite doesn't mean your code is safe: the gap between passing CI and real confidence, and what actually closes it.

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The Developer Ultimatum: My Old Workflow Died and I Had to Build a New One

My AI-assisted development workflow: specs-first, red gate acceptance tests, autonomous agent loops, and how to stay in control when the agent writes faster than you review.