Writing
Essays and records from building flakestat.
Essay8 September 2026
A week to build it. Rather longer to work out whether it did anything, and three bugs that all had the same shape.
ReadValidation record8 September 2026
Three third-party subjects, one frozen build, and a set of rules fixed in advance about what each result would be allowed to mean.
ReadField notes8 September 2026
An overnight run against five active Go repositories, and why it closed nothing.
ReadDesign8 September 2026
Why flakiness is scored as inconsistency, and the three times that principle was implemented wrong.
ReadReleases8 September 2026
Every release, and which changes move scores you have already recorded.
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