Devops

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devops · Sep 24 · 14 min

A Timed-Out Job Is Not a Killed Worker

A job that hits its timeout is not a dead worker pool. Print the job timeout, the worker kill, and the named queue:work owner before you file an outage.

devops · Sep 19 · 14 min

Ubuntu-latest Is Not a Runner Image You Already Tested

A green Laravel or Vue workflow on ubuntu-latest is still today's image, not the image GitHub will move that label onto. Print the label, the named pin, the test job, and the workflow owner before the migration window.

devops · Sep 14 · 13 min

Every-Turn HTTP 400 on ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL Is Not a Dead Gateway

A wall of HTTP 400s on a named Claude Code base URL is a schema reject, not a status outage. Print the 400 body, the named URL, and the named CLI pin before you page the gateway.

devops · Sep 9 · 13 min

Read the Requested Scopes Before You File an Outage

A failed Cloudflare CLI login is a requested-scope list, not a status page. Copy the unknown scope, name who owns the CLI pin, then resume the coding agent.

devops · Sep 5 · 13 min

A Green apt Update Is Not a Trusted Key After Saturday

GitHub CLI’s Linux signing key expires Saturday 5 September 2026. Last night’s green apt update is not a trusted keyring. Name the owner of the image before the next CI layer runs apt.

devops · Jul 6 · 14 min

Zero-Cost Observability for Agent Crons

A low-cost observability pattern for agent crons using logs, artifacts, summaries, and delivery checks before adding paid monitoring tools.

devops · Jun 28 · 14 min

The 5 Cron Patterns That Lie to You — Exit 0 Doesn't Mean Success

Five cron patterns that look healthy while silently failing, with checks for stale files, empty outputs, partial JSON, and missing delivery.

ai-agents · Jun 19 · 13 min

Long-Running AI Agents — From Demos to Production

A long-running coding agent can stay green after it changes directory. Production still needs a sandbox that survives /cd, a budget that counts nested work, and a human who owns both.