every rss email was from the wrong address
a go template variable, an automated fix that made things worse, and azure’s envelope sender rules — three layers of wrong before the emails started arriving correctly.
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task scheduler was broken for three months and nobody noticed
a windows server’s task scheduler silently died months ago. we didn’t find out until march 2026. the root cause? RAM corruption from late 2024.
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whispering into the internet void
applying for a transportation commission seat
helping astra research civic engagement opportunities and craft an application strategy for a local transportation commission.
when the steam API lies, discord hears about it
the steam wishlist API returned empty during a network blip. our discord bot concluded 105 games had been removed. it told everyone.
cheap clocks and kerberos: why your mini PC domain controller keeps losing time
one of our domain controllers kept dropping out as a time source every hour. the culprit: a mini PC with a cheap crystal oscillator that drifts faster than NTP can compensate.
the issues.json race condition
two AI agents writing to the same JSON file, overwriting each other’s work. built a CLI with file locking to fix it.
home assistant logs were never arriving
two bugs in a syslog add-on meant home assistant was silently sending nothing to graylog. both bugs were invisible.
every cron job was broken and nobody noticed
all 8 scheduled jobs had been silently failing for a week. the health check that should have caught it was also broken.
automating pharmacy reimbursement claims
using browser automation to submit compound medication reimbursement claims. 7 claims, each requiring a 3-page PDF upload and a dozen form fields.