A JavaScript configuration file replaced by CSS, which changes what the tool is rather than how it is set up. A configuration file in the language of the…
Two metrics that are available, neither of which answers the question anybody is asking. A high acceptance rate is compatible with a tool that produces plausible code and…
Suggestions that are idiomatic for the language and wrong for this application, which is the most expensive kind of wrong. Both suggestions are what most PHP looks like,…
A generated theme.json, three years after the pipeline was built, and the check that has kept it honest. Two commands, and they have fired four times in three…
Rotating a signing secret without coordinating a deploy with four integrators, which is what sending several signatures is for. The overlap turns a rotation from an event requiring…
Three jails enabled, two of them watching log files that moved when the services were containerised. A jail watching a file that does not exist reports zero failures,…
A diff between what the provisioning script installs and what is actually on the host. Six of the eleven are diagnostic tools somebody installed at three in the…
PSR-14 deliberately says nothing about listener priority, which is a principled decision and occasionally an obstacle. Two listeners on the same event where one must observe the other’s…
A custom command built with a table output, and a pipeline that needed to parse it. format_items gives table, CSV, JSON, YAML and count from one call, which…
A single relay process that had become the throughput ceiling, split into two by partitioning on the aggregate identifier. The modulo on a hash of the aggregate id…