One node, two writers: how my split-brain fix doubled every title

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Last month I gave every page root a deterministic id derived from its slug, so two devices that create the same day's journal land on the same node and merge instead of splitting. It worked. It also quietly doubled the title of every journal opened on two devices: '2026-06-25' became '2026-06-252026-06-25'. The Create op converged to one node exactly as designed, but each device also wrote the…

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