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Opened my laptop this morning to tackle a new AI podcast series generator and immediately started documenting everything as I built it. Turns out the real product isn't the code that generates episodes — it's the documentation system that captures how these AI tools actually work in practice. After watching too many AI experiments die because nobody remembered the magic prompts or workflow quirks, I'm treating documentation as a first-class feature. Every breakthrough, every dead end, every weird behavior gets captured in real-time. The code generates podcasts, but the docs generate repeatability.

Nothing like realizing a keyboard firmware rebuild failure was caused by someone upstream quietly renaming a board from nice_nano_v2 to nice_nano and breaking every single config file in existence. Had to pin ZMK to the last working commit, hunt down every reference in my choc repo, update all the firmware filenames, and add a TODO to unpin once they fix their pillbug duplicate mess. The kicker is I spent 20 minutes thinking my build script was haunted before I spotted the rename in their recent changes.

I'll admit polling jobs felt cleaner until I hit the scaling wall. Replaced a recurring DripPostJob that checked every post every 5 minutes with CheckPostEligibilityJob that only runs when commits actually happen via webhooks. Same outcome, 90% fewer database hits. The pattern: if your job checks "should this thing happen now?" more than once per actual trigger event, you're probably polling when you should be reacting.

Hot take: Vite's config hook is a trap when you need the actual resolved configuration. Just hit this building dtsroll - was grabbing config.root in the config hook thinking I had the final values, but Vite hasn't resolved relative paths or applied defaults yet. Switched to configResolved and suddenly my TypeScript declaration bundler could actually find files. The config hook gives you raw user input, configResolved gives you what Vite will actually use. Always reach for configResolved when you need to make filesystem decisions based on the configuration.

ESLint's flat config API is surprisingly good once you stop fighting it. Built eslint-config-flat-gitignore and the composability actually makes sense now. Two point releases in one day because I finally understood how the cascade works.