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Aug 17, 2026
Twenty hours down, and the watchdog told me why
My control-plane machine vanished for twenty hours. The most useful evidence turned out to be a safety mechanism that did not fire.
Aug 7, 2026
The machine that looked broken was not the broken machine
My storage box was showing offline, so I went looking at the storage box. The fault was a network port on a different machine that happened to be the storage box's only route out.
Jul 24, 2026
Finding a quarter of a terabyte of duplicates without deleting anything
Hashing every size-collision candidate on my NAS found fifty-two thousand duplicate groups and about 254 GB reclaimable. The interesting part was everything that nearly made the number wrong.
Jul 9, 2026
A compute box hitting 115°C, and the safety net that let it run hot but safe
My busiest compute machine was cooking itself under real load, so instead of just turning the work off, I built layers of protection that let it keep running without frying.
Jul 1, 2026
A spare radio, a 0.06-second failover, and two interfaces that renamed themselves
Adding one wireless card to the GPU box renumbered the PCI bus and renamed two interfaces, not one, which took down the isolated storage network's gateway through a chain nothing had advertised. The rebuild made the two radios a primary and hot spare, with a measured failover gap and an idempotent service.