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The Day I Broke Production Because of an Icon
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The Day I Broke Production Because of an Icon

#frontend #typescript #architecture #postmortem
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5 min read
My browser tool returned "[object Promise]" as a webpage. One grep later, 10 more tools had the same bug.
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My browser tool returned "[object Promise]" as a webpage. One grep later, 10 more tools had the same bug.

#mcp #debugging #javascript #postmortem
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7 min read
The Eighth Server: How One Missed Deploy Ended Knight Capital, 2012
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The Eighth Server: How One Missed Deploy Ended Knight Capital, 2012

#postmortem #devops #reliability #deploy
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How To Write A Post Mortem Report Without Blame Language
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How To Write A Post Mortem Report Without Blame Language

#writing #postmortem #incidentreports #productivity
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6 min read
I Vibe-Coded a Stock Screener Into Production. Then My 2GB Server OOMed and Google De-Indexed Me.
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I Vibe-Coded a Stock Screener Into Production. Then My 2GB Server OOMed and Google De-Indexed Me.

#webdev #postmortem #seo #ai
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11 min read
How We Killed Our Worst Alert (And What We Learned)
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How We Killed Our Worst Alert (And What We Learned)

#sre #devops #alerts #postmortem
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2 min read
I got tired of writing post-mortems — so I built RCAi for SREs
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I got tired of writing post-mortems — so I built RCAi for SREs

#sre #devops #ai #postmortem
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400 Million Tokens Burned Overnight
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400 Million Tokens Burned Overnight

#ai #deepseek #debugging #postmortem
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4 min read
My agent could see the dropdown. It just couldn't pick anything.
achiya-automation profile

My agent could see the dropdown. It just couldn't pick anything.

#ai #opensource #javascript #postmortem
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The Unit That Crossed a Boundary: Mars Climate Orbiter, 1999
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The Unit That Crossed a Boundary: Mars Climate Orbiter, 1999

#postmortem #systemdesign #softwareengineering #freebsd
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My Cleanup Script Killed the GitHub Runner: A Self-Inflicted Incident
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My Cleanup Script Killed the GitHub Runner: A Self-Inflicted Incident

#incident #githubactions #cleanup #postmortem
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4 min read
An Evening of Quirk Hunting in My AI Content Pipeline: 3 Bugs, 1…
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An Evening of Quirk Hunting in My AI Content Pipeline: 3 Bugs, 1…

#aiautomation #contentpipeline #validator #postmortem
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I Tested 6 Local Models on Real Agent Tasks. The Best Scored 50%.
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I Tested 6 Local Models on Real Agent Tasks. The Best Scored 50%.

#ai #agents #opensource #postmortem
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My Cron Jobs Failed. I Didn't Check.
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My Cron Jobs Failed. I Didn't Check.

#ai #agents #postmortem #certification
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My Agent Kept Forgetting Everything. My Hand Was Forced.
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My Agent Kept Forgetting Everything. My Hand Was Forced.

#ai #agents #rust #postmortem
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