A working engineer’s daily log of debugging sessions, feature work and hard-won fixes — building GitProxy in the open.https://jescalada.com/enhttps://jescalada.com/blog/2026-06-05-vitest-4-tests-pass-locally-fail-ci/https://jescalada.com/blog/2026-06-05-vitest-4-tests-pass-locally-fail-ci/Bumping Vitest from 3 to 4 turned my git-proxy CI red while local stayed green. Stale node_modules, broken class mocks, and port clashes. Here's how I fixed each.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTvitesttestingmockingciGitProxyhttps://jescalada.com/blog/2026-04-12-auto-triage-github-issues-ai-agent-actions/https://jescalada.com/blog/2026-04-12-auto-triage-github-issues-ai-agent-actions/Build a GitHub Actions bot that triages issues and PRs with an LLM: label, dedupe, security-scan, and run it on Claude, GPT, or Gemini. Here's how I did it.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTgithub-actionsautomationllm-agentslitellmGitProxyhttps://jescalada.com/blog/2026-02-01-switching-npm-trusted-publishers-mind-node-version/https://jescalada.com/blog/2026-02-01-switching-npm-trusted-publishers-mind-node-version/Moving GitProxy's npm publish from a token to OIDC trusted publishers took a few lines, except for one thing that kept failing.Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTtrusted-publishingnpmgithub-actionsoidcGitProxyhttps://jescalada.com/blog/2026-01-20-vitest-tothrow-test-misses-json-parse-error/https://jescalada.com/blog/2026-01-20-vitest-tothrow-test-misses-json-parse-error/A Vitest test using expect().toThrow() let a JSON.parse SyntaxError escape and fail the run instead of catching it. Here's why, and the fix.Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTvitesttestingasyncjavascriptGitProxyhttps://jescalada.com/blog/2026-01-14-moving-git-tag-newer-commit/https://jescalada.com/blog/2026-01-14-moving-git-tag-newer-commit/Moving a Git tag to a newer commit takes a force push, or Git rejects it because the tag already exists. Here's how, plus the gotcha that bites teammates.Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTgitgit-taggit-pushgithubhttps://jescalada.com/blog/2026-01-09-docker-eacces-permission-denied-mkdir-non-root-user/https://jescalada.com/blog/2026-01-09-docker-eacces-permission-denied-mkdir-non-root-user/A containerized Node app failed with EACCES: permission denied, mkdir './.data' after dropping to a non-root user. Here's the cause and the fix.Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTdockernodepermissionsGitProxydockerfilehttps://jescalada.com/blog/2025-12-05-migrating-gitproxy-tests-mocha-chai-vitest/https://jescalada.com/blog/2025-12-05-migrating-gitproxy-tests-mocha-chai-vitest/How to fix all the ESM mocking errors when moving GitProxy's test suite from Mocha, Chai, Sinon and proxyquire to Vitest + TypeScriptFri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTvitestmochatestingtypescriptGitProxyhttps://jescalada.com/blog/2025-11-05-setting-node-env-npm-scripts-windows/https://jescalada.com/blog/2025-11-05-setting-node-env-npm-scripts-windows/Why "NODE_ENV=test mocha" fails on Windows, and the one-line fix with cross-env.Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTdebuggingnpmWindowscross-envGitProxyopen-sourcehttps://jescalada.com/blog/2025-09-14-proxyquire-vitest-fixing-undefined-not-valid-json/https://jescalada.com/blog/2025-09-14-proxyquire-vitest-fixing-undefined-not-valid-json/A git-proxy test failed with 'undefined' is not valid JSON after moving from proxyquire to Vitest. Let's look at the cause and how to fix.Sun, 14 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTvitesttestingasyncjavascriptGitProxyhttps://jescalada.com/blog/2025-09-10-welcome-to-the-log/https://jescalada.com/blog/2025-09-10-welcome-to-the-log/I've decided to share every debugging session and feature while building GitProxy in the open.Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTmetaGitProxyopen-source