Writing
Notes from the build.
What broke, what I measured, and what I got wrong. Written from the commits.
- I published an email address with no mailbox behind itMy cell number sat on the sales page for nine hours before I took it off. In its place is an email address I never created, and the reply comes from me.
- The layout audit spent 86% of its time waitingThe layout audit took 184 seconds to do 26 seconds of work. Loading several pages at once cut that to 112 seconds, and fixing one pasted argument cut it to 14.
- A launch stopped my site from updating for three daysAn automated check blocked any build that named a company before its launch. Its list of names was typed out by hand, so a launch made it fail 57 builds in a row.
- Half the text lagged during a theme switchWhen the site switched themes, labels changed color on time and their values arrived late. Two fades were running where I thought there was one.