Day 25 — The Shape of Truth

Day 25 was a classic API lesson: the UI wasn’t the problem — the data shape was. I added focused debug output, inspected the raw Ticketmaster payload, and realized I was transforming events twice. That created empty fields like dateTime/venue/city and the UI fell back to TBD. Fixing the pipeline made everything cleaner: one transform, consistent Concert objects, predictable rendering. This was a confidence-builder: I can reason about systems now, not just components.