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

September 2026

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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

The entire embed rebuilds from one string in a share link.

spotify markdown embeds

No error, no warning, no trace. The element simply is not there.

hugo markdown silent-failure goldmark

Zed doesn't autosave, and an unsaved buffer looks exactly like a saved one.

zed silent-failure verification

The image proved the shortcode worked and nothing about the page.

hugo silent-failure workflow

A file's location decides what Hugo is allowed to do with it.

hugo asset-pipeline images