A risk email every fifteen minutes about nothing
The risk-monitor cron on a side project I run was emailing me every 15 minutes with "risk factor appeared" or "risk factor resolved" for low-severity…
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Why the sleep-window learner kept collapsing to the wrong four hours
The v1 sleep-window learner for a side-project safety app produced a sleep window of 01:00–05:00 for me. My actual sleep is more like 23:00–07:00. The…
Read →Sonarr was dead because of a Cyrillic filename
Sonarr's web UI was unresponsive. systemd said the service was active (running). The process was using 100% of multiple cores. Load average on the…
Read →When Sonarr's UI hangs after a restart, blame the WebSocket cache
I'd just restarted Sonarr to recover from an unrelated issue. The service came back up, API requests responded fine, but the web UI in my browser was…
Read →94% SpO2 is not an emergency
I got a high-severity SMS from my own safety app: "may be at risk. Factors: Low blood oxygen: 94%." 94% is normal. Consumer pulse oximeters have a ±2%…
Read →Teaching the arrs to skip Russian and very long releases
Sonarr blew up at 3 AM with PathTooLongException thrown across the import queue. The release that triggered it was a translated upload with a…
Read →Heartbeats were polluting my activity table
The phone in a side-project safety app posts a stationary_heartbeat every few minutes when it's not moving — so the server knows the device is alive even…
Read →Sixty-five lines ahead of git, in production
I went to deploy a fix to a backend Lambda and stopped halfway through because the file I was about to overwrite was 65 lines ahead of the repo…
Read →The arr stack wasn't crashing, qBittorrent was thrashing
I caught a "Sonarr's down again" frustration from a household user. The actual problem wasn't Sonarr at all — Sonarr was fine. It just had a download…
Read →Voice on watchOS without the Speech framework
I wanted to talk to my homelab assistant from the Apple Watch. Action Button down, dictate, get a spoken reply back. Standard project except for one…
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