Operations

A cartoon dashboard full of smiling green lights beams proudly while an empty printer tray beside it looks on in confusion.

Proof, Not Green Lights

APIs, queues, processes, builds, and dashboards kept telling me yes to questions I had not actually asked.

A laughing sysadmin watches a retro terminal run check-my-shit across servers, backups, cameras, security, promises, and forgotten stuff.

check-my-shit: The AI Command That Started as a Joke and Became a Real Closure Engine

What began as a blunt joke became a real, evidence-backed way to check infrastructure, messages, promises, outages, backups, and forgotten work without creating another dashboard.

HOST at a South Entrance booth with a long car line and a help-wanted notice on a thin staffing bench

Grand Canyon budget and staffing cuts, 2025–2026

February 2025 layoffs at the gates and waterline, systemwide NPS workforce drop, shutdown furloughs, and ops impacts through fire and flood.