Bake Off

A free, public, consented audit of a volunteer’s repo. The audit is free for now — it is not charity, and I would rather tell you the trade than let you assume there isn’t one.

What I audit

Repo history + the live app’s user-visible promises.

What gets published

Findings you can reproduce in one action; your stack; anonymized or named — your choice, in writing.

Where findings publish

On getbakery.dev and the Substack (thirteenthloaf.substack.com), under James’s name.

What never gets published

What you get

What it costs you — required for a free audit

The anonymized commit-shape profile — counts, dates, intervals; no file contents, no commit messages, no names — becomes calibration data. Won’t allow it, no free audit, said in those words.

Upper Crust releases this. If you’re not willing to allow calibration and you’re not Upper Crust yet, that’s an honest “not yet.”

What stays yours — never the price of anything

Permission to publish, on every finding, for any reason or none; named or anonymous; anything you redline. Bundling publication into the price would be buying your embarrassment, and a veto you can only use by forfeiting the audit is not a veto.

What I also get, not required

Your one-click confirm/dispute on the record. Disputes are as useful as confirmations and get published alongside them.

How findings are produced

Findings are produced by instruments where instruments exist and by me where they don’t; the write-up says which is which.

Private repos

Private works without granting repo access — a commit-history export is enough. See the commands on the audit page.

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