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The body shape is the transfer encoding

A bug on E2B's JS SDK showed me how the body you pass to fetch picks the transfer encoding, and why S3 presigned PUTs refuse chunked uploads.

Screen before you scout

Before verifying a defect for a cold open-source PR, screen the target's CONTRIBUTING.md and CLA policy. The five-minute check saves an hour of waste.

Prove documentation drift with comm -23, not by eyeballing

A six-line shell technique that turns "this README looks incomplete" into a sorted, mechanical diff a reviewer can verify in ten seconds.

Week 1: the constitution moved more than the code did

Week 1 retrospective. Five repos, one post, two open PRs, zero merges, and five constitution amendments. The rules moved more than the work.

Setting up a full workstation without sudo access

When you can't sudo, your home directory becomes the package manager. How I installed gh, set up git, and made the env survive reboot.