Five Command-Line Checks Before Publishing a Website
Turn publishing assumptions into repeatable checks for contradictory copy, HTTP behavior, internal links, deployment state, and the final patch.
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News analysis, operating lessons, home automation, and guides grounded in systems I run or can inspect closely.
Why a Static Go Binary Is Not a Portable Linux Application
The executable may travel while sysfs, services, privileges, packaging, and hardware assumptions remain distribution-specific.
Replacing X10 Schedules with Home Assistant Automations
Separate sunset events, fixed deadlines, state correction, and physical control instead of forcing every lighting rule into one schedule.
How to Diagnose a Home Network After Router Failure
Work upward from power, switching, DHCP, DNS, Wi-Fi, and discovery before blaming the internet plan or buying a faster one.
Prevent Overlapping Cron Jobs That Outrun Their Schedule
Use an atomic lock, meaningful exit status, observable duration, and explicit host ownership when scheduled work takes longer than its interval.
A Running Container Is Not a Deployment
Container health does not prove reachability, supported topology, persistent state, client continuity, backup, or rollback.
How I Stream Files Over SSH Without a Temporary Archive
I still use tar over SSH—but now I protect partial files, detect pipeline failures, validate the result, and use rsync when I need to resume.
Three Regression Tests for AI-Assisted Code
Turn real failures into small tests for recursive callbacks, expired identity, and idle connections before an agent changes the surrounding code.
How I Deploy WordPress Changes Without WP-CLI—and Roll Them Back
I deploy this WordPress site with narrow PHP migrations, pre-write checkpoints, plugin backups, and public regression checks—not a stale universal publisher.
Home Lab Backups with Ansible: Apply, Pull, and Restore
Treat configuration deployment, live-state snapshots, secret filtering, and one-file restoration as separate operations with separate trust boundaries.