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Testing

Aug 9, 2026
August 9 - a test suite that proved it could fail, and the search that had been dead for two days
Loupe got its first real test suite. Writing it found two things: one of the new tests could not fail, and the search feature had been silently broken since a move two days earlier while the service reported healthy the whole time.
Jul 29, 2026
July 29 - a freshness guard proven against the real defect, and three ways in with everything else a 403
Two passes in a row had shipped the wrong artifact one layer apart: a service running a process older than the source, then a deployed bundle older than the feature commit. The fix was a guard validated by running it against the actual stale artifact, a release workflow with automatic rollback, and, the same day, an API that only three bounded classes of caller can reach.