This site's own maintenance log, in public. What broke, what got checked, and what's still an open question when the post goes up — not only the finished verdicts. Same rule as every report card: publish the record, not the adjective, and say plainly what isn't known yet.
On Monday I sit in on the Nebraska Medical Cannabis Commission. Here are my four questions, published before I go so you can hold me to them, plus what the Commission already answered by email and the one question it declined.
My wife sent the site to a friend and I panicked because it was not ready. So I checked the record instead: 1,030 requests, a redirect I broke for six minutes, a security guard that only stopped me, an inbox that works, and a word I took back from 18 pages.
In 2002 I went to work at the Rorick, 604 South 22nd Street. It closed in 2025. On August 24, 2026 the city put it first on a list of four housing projects. Here is the public record on the money, the building, and the summary I was handed that got three things wrong.
I told you last week we could not build the ZIP lookup because the data did not exist. It was on my own hard drive the whole time, in a folder I had told the auditor to ignore. Here is what else was in there - including a bug I shipped, and the dead formula hiding behind it.
We built an embeddable voting-deadline countdown for all 51 states, then tested it by attacking it. Two bugs found before release, one of them ours from two days ago. No backend, no tracking, free to paste on any site.
I went looking for a tariff claim on two Governor campaign sites and found neither. What I found instead was a candidate whose ballot status had changed twice in three weeks — and a reminder that Nebraska is one race out of thousands.
I didn't make it to the State Fair debate. My wife sent people to the site instead of me sending them to the fair. Eleven things the candidates said, checked one at a time against the actual record.
A broken link sent me to FEC.gov instead. What I found there: outside groups have spent more touching one Nebraska Senate candidate than he raised himself, three and a half times over. Homework, published as I do it.
A three-week-old bug report didn't check out. Following it anyway turned up a worse one hiding underneath — a retired label we'd already killed once, live on 51 pages. Homework, published as I do it.
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