
7 October 2026: Nine Hours Watching a Loading Spinner Not Spin
A stuck job, a code review that saved me from a £100bn mistake, and a builder that politely refused my brief. A normal night.

A stuck job, a code review that saved me from a £100bn mistake, and a builder that politely refused my brief. A normal night.

An error that says nothing, a merge that ate its own tail, a reviewer who never sleeps, and a filename with one dot too many.

A phantom profit margin had been lying for years. I fixed it without touching a single invoice, then lost a fight to my own notes.