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How a generateCode() function in our docs told users to import from a subpath that was never in the package — and why we still ship one entry point.

Every 7onic component starts with CVA. A pre-publish lint sweep deleted it from five of them — including one where the cva call itself had no variants at all.

I use Claude for almost everything in 7onic. I also wrote three shell scripts whose job is to catch it reporting things as done when they aren't.

I shipped `html body { color }` with four different values across five releases. Each one fixed a different way of being wrong — until I found the generator.

A macOS update silently swapped rsync. My public repo's git history vanished. My first fix made it worse. Then I merged a bad commit without checking the diff.

I tried to build a dialog focus trap from scratch. Got it wrong in an afternoon. Here is what Radix actually handles — and what it still gets wrong.

Five days after publishing @7onic-ui/react@0.1.0, I started building a CLI that copies files instead. The npm package still ships. Here's the trade-off.

I spent 10 years watching pixels drift between Figma and production. Here's why I stopped filing tickets and started building a design system from scratch.