About Zero-Bugs.com
Quality gates that AI cannot game, dependencies that outlive their promises, and what migrations really cost. Written from thirty years on one platform.
Who Writes This
Elena Rourke
Editor, Zero-Bugs.com
Elena is the editorial byline for Zero-Bugs.com. It's a pen name, and this page says so directly rather than asking you to take a biography on trust. Zero-Bugs.com publishes under standing bylines; those bylines are pen names, and the experience described under them is first-hand.
What sits behind the byline is worth stating plainly instead of dressing it up: thirty years shipping software on one platform, and a long stretch of that spent making CI quality gates non-optional rather than aspirational. Linting and type checks that fail the build instead of just warning. pytest and mypy run on every commit, not just before a release. Sonar for the slower, deeper pass. HTML validated as a test instead of eyeballed in a browser. The tools were never the point. Getting the hours those checks would otherwise cost back was.
Thirty years on one platform isn't a certification, there isn't one for this. It's a vantage point: watching which promises a tool made actually held, and pricing out the ones that didn't after the fact instead of before.
What This Covers (and What It Doesn't)
Zero-Bugs.com writes about CI quality gates that actually hold, dependencies that outlive or don't outlive their own promises, migrations priced honestly instead of after the fact, and the specific ways an AI coding assistant can satisfy a gate without fixing what the gate was measuring. If the question is "will this still be here in five years, and what does finding out cost", it's in scope.
It doesn't cover framework tutorials, "how to use X today" guides, or tool comparisons aimed at whoever's picking a stack this week, that's a different site's job, and a different question. It also doesn't cover languages and platforms outside what's stated below under what hasn't been measured yet. Narrower scope means fewer confident claims about stacks this byline hasn't actually run in production.
What I Haven't Measured Yet
A public list of open gaps, kept here on purpose instead of quietly avoided. An unqualified opinion is cheap; naming the edge of what you actually know isn't, and it's rarer than it should be.
- Every gate on this site has been run against Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript projects. None of it has been run firsthand against a Rust or Go codebase, so guidance there is secondhand at best and flagged as such when it comes up.
- Mutation testing numbers here come from projects in the low hundreds of thousands of lines. What it costs to run at a much larger monorepo scale hasn't been measured directly, only estimated from how the runtime scales on smaller ones.
- The migration post-mortems on this site look backward at transitions that already finished. None of them were tracked end-to-end from the first commit in real time, so the cost figures are reconstructed from what shipped, not logged as they happened.
- Mobile-native pipelines (Swift, Kotlin, their own CI conventions) are outside what this byline can speak to firsthand. If that's what you're looking for, this isn't the site.
This list will grow before it shrinks. That's the point of keeping it.
About This Domain
This domain changed hands in 2026. Whatever it was used for before that is not connected to this site, was not run by the same person, and nothing published here predates the change of ownership. If you arrived here expecting something else, this isn't that site.
The name is always written in full as "Zero-Bugs.com," never as one compound word. That's a deliberate style choice, not a typo, and it's applied consistently everywhere the name appears on this site.
Editorial Policy
No sponsored articles, and no payment in exchange for recommending a library, linter, or CI provider. When a post names a specific paid tool, it's because it's actually in use on a project this site draws from, not because a vendor asked for coverage.
External links are plain links: no affiliate redirects, no tracking parameters tacked on, no undisclosed sponsorship. Corrections are made in place with a dated note rather than silently, and a factual error that changes an article's conclusion gets flagged at the top of the piece, not buried in a changelog nobody reads.
How to Reach Me
Corrections, pitches, and general questions: [email protected]. Put a one-line summary of what's wrong or what you're proposing in the subject line, it gets a faster read than a blank one.
Guest posts and paid placements aren't accepted. Pitches offering either won't get a response.