jwogrady Working notes on tools, and why they earn their place

20 SEP 2026

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The success of an agency is measured by the circumference of its digital key ring.

1password key-management devops github

Every entry so far has described its evidence instead of showing it.

chrome wsl automation verification workflow

The settings I wrote down two hours ago would have gone into a file nothing reads.

zed wsl silent-failure

The colour belongs to the vocabulary, not to any entry in it.

spectrum taxonomy information-design

A 6664px screenshot displayed at 672px is 99 percent waste.

hugo asset-pipeline performance

Rendering and being findable are different problems with the same symptom.

hugo taxonomy silent-failure

A date that depends on the build machine is not a date.

spectrum silent-failure conventions

An override is a fork of one file, not a patch to it.

hugo spectrum git submodules

The old structure still works, which is why nobody tells you.

hugo conventions spectrum

Stripping trailing whitespace silently rewrites Markdown.

zed markdown workflow