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Six tests that passed for the wrong reason

My backup script told me the restore was verified. It restored ten tables with zero rows in every one, checked the schema, and printed VERIFIED.

  • Backup script reported successful restoration of ten tables with no rows
  • Stability gate flawed, recent-quiet rule mislabeled
  • Health-check scenario maintained low volume that never existed

Blog Pipeline Fence Corruption: How a Naive Sed Rule Swallowed Markdown Code Blocks

A draft came out of my blog generation pipeline with the frontmatter intact, the title correct, the word count in range, and roughly 1,400 words of prose rendered inside a single syntax-highlighted…

  • Sed rule corrupted Markdown code blocks by removing closing fences, causing unclosed code blocks.
  • Fix involved changing sed rule to match whole-document wrapper instead of substitution.

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