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There's a gap between a script that works when you run it and a script that survives running...

Three separate incidents taught me the same lesson over about a year. A */1 rsync stacked six copies...

I once spent forty minutes at eleven at night debugging a deploy that wasn't broken. The release...

The backup ran fine every night for fourteen months, and then it didn't run for nine days, and...

A */1 rsync took our staging box to a load average of 41 one afternoon, and it took me longer than I...

The deploy script had been running in production for four months without a problem. It built releases...

We kept a plaintext file of hostnames, one per line, and a monitoring script read the file and pinged...

A build step piped its output through tee, bash returned tee's exit code — always zero — and the compiler's failure vanished. Every run went green and deployed

Nobody announces small features. You ship them, they're in there, and the people who find them either...

A client handed me SSH access to a server they'd been running for two years. No documentation. No...

It happened on a Tuesday at 10pm. I was trying to get a CI pipeline to pass, and ShellCheck was...

It was a WordPress site on a $5 DigitalOcean droplet. Client's small business. Nothing fancy. I had...

The Problem You're about to deploy a script. You know you need the file executable, but...