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There's a gap between a script that works when you run it and a script that survives running...

Three separate incidents taught me the same lesson over about a year. A */1 rsync stacked six copies...

The backup ran fine every night for fourteen months, and then it didn't run for nine days, and...

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

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

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

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