Monitoring tells you what was never working.
Scatter
Small things: reading, building, thinking. One or two lines at a time. Each note is a post with the internal tag #note.
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Rereading an old favourite and noticing everything I skimmed the first time.
Today's favourite line of config:
restart: unless-stoppedOne line, three fewer late nights.
A browser's secure DNS setting will quietly skip your VPN's DNS. Found that one the hard way.
A now page is a better cover letter than a cover letter.
Two chapters in and the narrator has already made three decisions I'd argue with.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Every home lab is a museum of past mistakes with the lights still on.
Index cards are still the best planning tool ever made.
If a fix needs a comment explaining why, write the comment first.
Small websites are having a moment. Good.