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Two honest counts, one wrong number: Counter and Validator count different things

The live counter said 5,982 of 6,000. The server said too long. Both were honest; they were counting different strings, and multipart encoding was why.

Sep 02, 20264 min readRails
Counter and Validator count different things

Restorable but not shareable: hiding a token in history.state

A result that survives refresh and the back button but cannot be shared by copying the URL. A forgotten browser API, a header, and one deliberate deletion.

Sep 01, 20266 min readFrontend
Restorable but not shareable