Notes from building KNJ Panel, in the order it actually happened.
blog /blɒɡ/ noun — 1. A web log. 2. Here: a build log. What we built, what broke, and what we learned.
The Malware Scan and Backups sidebar entries had already been folded from several rows into one tabbed parent, each as a side effect of building something else. Feedback…
Read more →The brief was simple to state and hard to verify: a shield that stays lit, with a glow that rotates around its edge, colored by how much attention…
Read more →The scheduled scanner had been running for a day, quarantining and suspending where appropriate, but doing all of it silently. Nobody was told anything unless they went looking.…
Read more →Two unrelated reports landed the same evening, and both turned out to be the same kind of mistake: something that should have happened all at once was happening…
Read more →Testing this feature against a real account for the first time, rather than a sandbox built to exercise it, turned up two places where a reasonable assumption was…
Read more →The routing fix from earlier the same day worked. Double-checking it by using the support access mode, which lets staff see exactly what a customer sees without needing…
Read more →A tester’s job, done well, is trying the thing nobody else got around to yet. That’s what turned this one up: not a code review or an automated…
Read more →After the previous fix, the signup form still failed with the same browser error. It is tempting to assume the same bug, but several causes can look identical…
Read more →A restyled signup form, intended to confirm in place without a page reload, stopped working entirely. Cause A plain form navigation can cross sites freely, but a script…
Read more →During testing, a mail filter rule ran for the first time after a mailbox had been moved, and folder listing for that mailbox then failed. Cause When a…
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