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Field notes
Investigations written the way they happened: symptom, evidence, refuted hypotheses, root cause. No tutorials, no listicles — autopsies.
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· 8 min · forensics · incident-response · methodology · debugging
The forensic method: six phases for production incidents
Production debugging fails when it runs on intuition: the loudest hypothesis wins and the evidence evaporates. This is the six-phase method I use instead — data before theories, and no hypothesis survives without surviving an attempt to kill it.
· 6 min · forensics · next.js · windows · debugging
The phantom build failure: when a capital letter takes down your Next.js build
Every page of a fully static site failed to prerender with an invariant blaming Next.js itself. The framework was innocent. A forensic walkthrough of refuting the obvious suspects until a single character confessed.