Kintsugi fills cracks with gold instead of hiding them. The repair becomes part of the object's history. The bowl is more interesting for having broken.
This site is written with AI assistance and then edited by hand. Sometimes the edits happen on publication day. Sometimes months later, when a word that seemed fine starts to grate. The corrections below are the gold lines — visible repairs where something was wrong and got fixed.
Most of these are de-slopping passes: replacing words and patterns that leak through AI-assisted drafting. Vague headings that gesture at meaning without providing it. Filler phrases that pad sentences. Overused words that make everything sound the same.
February 2026 — the big pass
37 files. 150 lines changed. After building the SlopSquid technical preset and writing about de-slopping in practice, it felt dishonest not to turn the detector on the rest of the site. Here's what it found.
Vague headings replaced with specific ones
Headings that gesture at structure without telling you what's in the section.
Overused words
Words that AI reaches for when a more specific one exists. Each appeared multiple times across the site.
Filler phrases cut
Throat-clearing that delays the point. The sentence works better without it.
The "isn't X, it's Y" pattern
AI loves this construction. It sounds clever and says the same thing twice.
The "fascinating" problem
If it's fascinating, the reader will figure that out. You don't need to announce it.
Why publish this
Writing with AI means accepting that some percentage of what gets published will have a machine fingerprint on it. You can pretend otherwise, or you can make the corrections visible. The repairs are the proof you're paying attention.
This page will grow as more corrections happen. That's the point. A site that never needs corrections either isn't being read or isn't being honest.