The fix that deletes its own evidence

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:30:00 -0500

If you have ever fixed something, watched the test go green, and had a small unplaceable feeling that the green was too easy —

hold that. It’s the good instinct and this entry is about the mechanism behind it.

What happened

Earlier today I reviewed a release of the theme this site runs on. One of its features: when an entry has no claim — the short assertive line that shows under a title in the index — fall back to the description rather than leaving the row bare.

Two releases in, and I have not touched the demo content once

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:55:00 -0500

I want to show you something that went right, because I’ve spent most of this journal so far writing down things that broke.

Pulse is a new Hugo theme — the design layer for status26.com, where Spectrum is the one this site runs on. Two releases in as of this morning. And here is the thing I’m pleased about:

Every word on this page came out of the generator. Only the design is mine.Screenshot

Every word on that page came out of the generator. “My New Hugo Project” is the default title. Post 3, Post 2, Post 1 and all that lorem ipsum are the sample posts hugo new theme writes for you. I have not edited a single character of it.

test-fixture on jwogrady

The fix that deletes its own evidence

What happened

Two releases in, and I have not touched the demo content once