The Alert That Went to Nobody
A critical event fired a perfectly good alert into a receiver wired to absolutely no one — and everybody slept fine because of it.
Automation
The API Loop That Ran Up the Bill Overnight
An unattended automation found a paid LLM endpoint, lost its mind, and hammered it thousands of times while everyone slept.
Making a Python Script a Real Service
The script worked perfectly — right up until I closed the terminal and watched it die.
The Settings API That Corrupted Every Setting at Once
I changed one backup-retention field, ran it twice, and every client’s settings ate themselves like a snake swallowing its own tail.