A record of what I ran into, tried, and chose while building SideKick.
Website
While working on site updates, I found three cases where fixes to templates were never reflected in the live HTML, and one test whose results changed depending on how it was run. In every case, nothing went wrong at the moment the problem was introduced — symptoms only appeared the next time someone rebuilt or re-ran something.
SideKick
In certain environments, the AI mask generation feature in SideKick Star would stall mid-process and never complete. Each promising hypothesis turned out to be wrong, and the fix I eventually landed on came from a different direction entirely. This is a record of that investigation.
Website
I am moving the SideKick Lab site to shared templates without replacing every page at once, checking the layout and navigation as I go.
Website
I set up this dev journal so it can be published on the SideKick Lab site. Both the Japanese and English versions went live, but along the way I ran into the same kind of missed update four separate times. It was a pitfall that comes with running a static site.
AI Development
I published the first English-language articles for the Uchide no Kozuchi (Knowledge Base). The workflow I had built earlier — having AI translate articles and write Japanese-language review reports so I can make a publish decision without reading the English myself — ran on a real set of articles for the first time, and those articles are now live.
AI Development
I am prototyping a feature in SideKick's Knowledge Base that automatically generates English versions of Japanese articles. By having the AI write an audit report in Japanese, I designed the system so I can judge quality without needing to read the English output myself.