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Standardize draft articles with YAML frontmatter including title, date, topics, related, and abstract. Expand README drafts section into a table listing all drafts with topics. Add "Testing Telos" to published articles.
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| Test Environments and Plato's Cave | 2026-04-20 |
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"Works on my machine" is not a joke but an ontological problem. Dev, staging, UAT, and prod are each caves with their own shadows — and the tester's job is to work out which projections can be trusted as evidence about the form beyond. |
Test Environments as Platonic Shadows. "Works on my machine" isn't a joke, it's an ontological problem. Dev, staging, UAT, prod — each is a cave with its own set of shadows. Plato's cave1 maps with almost embarrassing precision. This piece could sit beside Perturbation Theory as another "borrowed-framework" essay and give you a natural home for your AWS HealthImaging / cross-manufacturer DICOM work, where the "same" data behaves differently in different environments.