My Front of House of Cards · The show ended at 10:12. The fix merged at 10:17.

Zabriskie is a social app I am building around music, films, books, art, and the people who care about them. I am building the entire application through vibe coding: I describe the behavior I want and evaluate the product in the browser, but I don’t read the implementation code. Coding agents write the implementation, tests, and audits. Its center of gravity is live music. When a band you follow is playing, Zabriskie opens a room for that show: the setlist updates song by song as they play it, and the people in the crowd and the people watching the stream from home share one chat. That last part is what this post is about, because on the night of a live Goose premiere I typed a message into that chat and watched nothing happen. No bubble over my body. I typed a second one. Still nothing. I threw the beach ball, which is a thing you can do on this page, and it sat exactly where it was. I threw a glowstick and nobody saw it. The room was not shared. It had not been shared for months,…