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2026

Why run your own (and when not to)original ↗
28 Sept 2026
The Seed, Built on a Benchoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2026
A sandbox the agents are allowed to breakoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
Give storage time to prove itselforiginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
Nothing critical runs on a laptop that travelsoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
Node0, in the Openoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
Power and environmentoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
Siteoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
Edgeoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
The rest of the seed designoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
Fabricoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
Bootstraporiginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
Storageoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
Computeoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
Servicesoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
Agents and devoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
Observabilityoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
Operationsoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
A resolver that lied by omission: healthy on every check while replication silently stoppedoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
A second AI, forked from the first one's memory, that could not find itoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
Grepping the module directory before proposing new workoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
Auditing your own infrastructure has traps of its ownoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
Forty-one of three hundred and forty-seven alerting rules carried no instruction for whether to actoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
A monitoring runbook's own numbers were stale prose, not live truthoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
Two power meters, 5% apart, and neither one is wrongoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
The second storage tier nobody was writing tooriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
Rules we now run byoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
Half a KVM stopped taking keystrokes, and the fix is a new KVMoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
The heartbeat that was not watching what matteredoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
Silencing a host by name during maintenance muted almost nothing the maintenance actually causedoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
One unique password, and a backup the verifier could not seeoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
A five-day-old battery warning fenced a hypervisororiginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
A raidz3 absorbed an 18 TB drive's sudden death without losing a byteoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
Creating an inventory record for a new host starts paging about it before it is builtoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
An abandoned wait loop locked the only Grafana account out for a full day, by re-arming its own lockoutoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
A DNS helper's own safety feature nearly destroyed the wrong record twiceoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
One switch generation, one silent 2.5 gigabit ceilingoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
Two agents, one git indexoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2026
A written-down cluster quorum threshold became wrong, in the dangerous direction, the day a fourth member joinedoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2026
Real outages and planned outages need different UPS commandsoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2026
Shipping an alert before the thing it watches exists pages a human about your own unfinished workoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2026
The route to the power controllers ran through the thing they had to surviveoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2026
The environment project made its own plan obsolete, and the team let itoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2026
Following one sensor sounds simple; the thermostat quietly refused for a dayoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2026
An alert fired continuously on the normal state of a design it misunderstood, and was removed rather than tunedoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
An alert redesigned by hand three times before it survived independent revieworiginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
A folder permission left from a partial deploy silenced the entire alerting path for 98 minutesoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
An agent caused a hardware fault, and it is on the recordoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
The PG autoscaler that silently did nothing, because two rules overlappedoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
Two measuring tools lied about a healthy network during a live firewall upgradeoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
The hard drives were hiding their worst counters, and a reboot's letter shuffle paged seven false alarmsoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
A failed fetch still exits zero, and already converged can mean still staleoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
A shutdown that works perfectly and still leaves the fleet dark foreveroriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
An NVMe controller can die and leave no evidenceoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
A monitor that logs into the thing it watches becomes part of the fault it reportsoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
A filter that returns everything is worse than a filter that returns nothingoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
HGST drives hide their worst counters, and a reboot can fake a SMART pageoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
103% of a UPS, and a nameplate rating that was wrong for monthsoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
A knocked-loose USB cable went unnoticed for four daysoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
Editing the config by hand took out both nightly backups at onceoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
The USB network adapter that was actually a flash drive in disguiseoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2026
ats6's application link died on its own management cardoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2026
A drive can be physically gone for nine minutes and every health check stays greenoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2026
Four monitor bugs in one week, and the silent ones were the dangerous halforiginal ↗
7 Sept 2026
A UPS running its own self-test looks exactly like a real power event, and nothing was watching UPS state at alloriginal ↗
7 Sept 2026
A monitoring tool with zero monitors configuredoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2026
Three X540 NICs die in one week, three different reasonsoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2026
A secret rotation that silently did nothingoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2026
The day four failures went unnoticed, and none of them paged anyoneoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2026
Ceph hosts hang with no OS-side traceoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2026
Building a dead-man's switch that only proves itself by being killedoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2026
A UPS service touch dropped a rack, and two hosts needed a personoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2026
One record per thing, and a re-seed silently reverts what you just fixedoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2026
A dirty bay connector wears two different disguisesoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2026
A NAT rule with a misspelled field name took public services down for six minutesoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2026
A laptop loses power exactly every five days, and the reason is out of Linux's reachoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2026
Identity lives on the drive or the card, never the boardoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2026
Remote access on a storage box, and the redesign that survived a lab-caught wrong assumptionoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2026
The recursion rule: a backup of a backup is worse than no backuporiginal ↗
5 Sept 2026
Rebalancing a ZFS pool: the math nobody runs before doing it anywayoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2026
The bucket that was declared purged and was notoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2026
NixOS creates users alphabetically, and that is a security-relevant bugoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2026
Proving an RMA: what Node0 learned by doing itoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2026
A settings dump that skips a whole menuoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2026
The whole fleet had two minutes to shut down a 218 TiB arrayoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2026
Everything moves off the old NAS: the migration and its USB boot sagaoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2026
Board damage an elimination tree cannot see: ceph7's three motherboardsoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2026
What thirteen pulled servers actually costoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2026
A management card that lies quietly when two callers ask at onceoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2026
A BMC that reported fabricated power and thermal readingsoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2026
Two NICs on one installer subnet look exactly like a crashing hostoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2026
A VPN client on a laptop that quietly captured Node0's own routesoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2026
A restrictive permission mode that looks like a broken account, not a broken directoryoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2026
Two files, one name lookup: reconciling six laptops' worth of SSH trustoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2026
The Intel chip that eats its own DHCP repliesoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2026
Cutting a flat 135-host network to eighteen VLANs in one day, and the DNS outage that came out of itoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2026
A VLAN renumber that never touched a live addressoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2026
An interim fix with no new part solved a real heat problemoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2026
A 208/240 V mismatch that looked like a bad transfer switchoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2026
Three battery packs is not a fault, it is a vocabulary problemoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2026
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