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The day I realised I had never tested a production backup TL;DR — I had run dozens of test-backup restore drills and felt safe. What I had never done was pull a real production snapshot, decrypt it, and bring it up in a sandbox. The day I finally di...
My family thinks WhatsApp can send anything. So I wrote a Python CLI. The weekend plot twist It was a normal weekend. My older cousin was visiting. Lunch was done, tea was going, the mood was relaxed. I had one of those rare afternoons where nobody ...
A short history of the CLI I built to stop curling IP APIs The rhythm Let me start with the rhythm, because that is really where this tool came from. If you have ever worked on anything involving IPs — abuse reports, rate limiting, geoblocking, susp...
The sed that didn't stick TL;DR - The nightly backup on one of my self-hosted servers kept failing. I patched the running container with a single sed command, ran the backup by hand, watched it succeed, and went to bed thinking I had it. The next mo...
The day I realised I had never tested a production backup TL;DR — I had run dozens of test-backup restore drills and felt safe. What I had never done was pull a real production snapshot, decrypt it, and bring it up in a sandbox. The day I finally di...
My family thinks WhatsApp can send anything. So I wrote a Python CLI. The weekend plot twist It was a normal weekend. My older cousin was visiting. Lunch was done, tea was going, the mood was relaxed. I had one of those rare afternoons where nobody ...
