Oddly / Field guide
Revisions & corrections
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October 19, 2026
- Rewrote the eight earlier anti-pattern articles: corrected Java examples, separated polling from spinning, qualified negative caching, removed an unreliable quote attribution, and made authorization and cleanup semantics explicit.
- Added article-specific implementation contracts and failure checks throughout the current writing, with runnable boundary and measurement examples in the toolkit.
- Clarified that harness experiments, release examples, and classifier datasets are illustrative. The accompanying fixtures do not measure model reliability.
- Added full-text search, three reading routes, complete collection durations, a glossary, and accessible section navigation.
- Added canonical sitemap, article metadata, sharing images, and visible revision dates while preserving original publication dates.
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