The App That Wouldn't Open After an Update
A desktop app auto-updated, swallowed its own window, and hung forever — and the fix had nothing to do with the install.
Windows
The Backup That Hung Forever on OneDrive
A Kopia job sat at 0% all night because it tried to read files that didn’t actually exist on disk yet.
Making a Python Script a Real Service
The script worked perfectly — right up until I closed the terminal and watched it die.
When Your Backup Client Lies About Its Name
A green-lit backup agent that hadn’t saved a single byte in weeks, because the machine and the server disagreed about what it was called.
90s Kid - The Family Computer in the Living Room
There was exactly one computer, it lived in the living room, and the whole family had to take turns being kings of it.