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A Cron Job Took Our Server to Load 41 by Attacking Itself

Dev.to · Anguishe ☁️ DevOps & Cloud ⚡ AI Lesson 2d ago

A Cron Job Took Our Server to Load 41 by Attacking Itself

A */1 rsync took our staging box to a load average of 41 one afternoon, and it took me longer than I...

A Function Without local Overwrote My Variable and rm -rf Deleted the Wrong Directory

Dev.to · Anguishe 3d ago

A Function Without local Overwrote My Variable and rm -rf Deleted the Wrong Directory

The deploy script had been running in production for four months without a problem. It built releases...

The Alert Never Fired Because the Loop Skipped the Last Line of the File

Dev.to · Anguishe 5d ago

The Alert Never Fired Because the Loop Skipped the Last Line of the File

We kept a plaintext file of hostnames, one per line, and a monitoring script read the file and pinged...

The Pipeline Was Green for Three Weeks. It Had Been Shipping a Build That Never Compiled.

Dev.to · Anguishe 1w ago

The Pipeline Was Green for Three Weeks. It Had Been Shipping a Build That Never Compiled.

A build step piped its output through tee, bash returned tee's exit code — always zero — and the compiler's failure vanished. Every run went green and deployed

6 small things we shipped across the BashSnippets tools this week

Dev.to · Anguishe 2w ago

6 small things we shipped across the BashSnippets tools this week

Nobody announces small features. You ship them, they're in there, and the people who find them either...

I was handed a server with no docs and no idea what it was listening on. One command fixed that.

Dev.to · Anguishe 2w ago

I was handed a server with no docs and no idea what it was listening on. One command fixed that.

A client handed me SSH access to a server they'd been running for two years. No documentation. No...

I Got Tired of Googling ShellCheck Errors. So I Built a Decoder.

Dev.to · Anguishe 4w ago

I Got Tired of Googling ShellCheck Errors. So I Built a Decoder.

It happened on a Tuesday at 10pm. I was trying to get a CI pipeline to pass, and ShellCheck was...

I Lost a Client's Database on a $5 VPS. Here's the 12-Line Script That Would Have Saved It.

Dev.to · Anguishe 1mo ago

I Lost a Client's Database on a $5 VPS. Here's the 12-Line Script That Would Have Saved It.

It was a WordPress site on a $5 DigitalOcean droplet. Client's small business. Nothing fancy. I had...

Stop Guessing 'chmod' I Built a Free Visual Permissions Builder for Linux

Dev.to · Anguishe 1mo ago

Stop Guessing 'chmod' I Built a Free Visual Permissions Builder for Linux

The Problem You're about to deploy a script. You know you need the file executable, but...