When the Percentage Looks Wrong
Every confusing statusline behaviour is a lesson about the harness underneath - the token arithmetic that refuses to match, the 300ms debounce, the five-second timeout, and the escape codes that fight back.
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Five Scripts and One Settings Key
The statusline build, end to end - a stdin JSON contract, an entry point that reads once and delegates, a colour-coded session line, git platform routing, and the single settings.json entry that wires it all in.
Terraform's Escape Hatches Are Load-Bearing
local-exec key minting, external data sources wrapping PowerShell, and a post-apply ARM PATCH - the imperative seams that held a declarative Azure estate together, and the idempotency, portability and security bills they ran up. Part 9 of the Terraform on Azure series.