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Laravel 12, and a starter kit we did not use

Deep diveMarch 19, 20258 min read

A major release in February that is deliberately almost nothing, and an upgrade guide that fits on a page.

PHPUnit 12, and the tests we deleted instead

Deep diveMarch 13, 20259 min read

A two-hour upgrade, and a directory of 188 tests excluded from every tool since 2023 and running on every push.

A workflow pinned by SHA rather than by tag

NoteMarch 5, 20251 min read

A third-party action referenced by tag, and a tag being a movable pointer in somebody else’s repository. A tag can be repointed at any commit by anybody with…

The VPS that had been running since 2019

Deep diveFebruary 28, 202514 min read

A host provisioned in 2019, upgraded in place three times, and a provisioning script that has never been run against an empty machine.

A Go binary in the deploy pipeline, and who owns it

NoteFebruary 5, 20252 min read

A small compiled tool in a PHP project, and the question that matters more than the language. A second language in a repository is a maintenance decision rather…

An on-call rota of three

Deep diveJanuary 29, 202510 min read

A rota of two is not a rota. A third person joined in November, and the gap was everything learned in the shadowing month and never written down.

A build secret that was in the image, in a layer, in the history

NoteMay 21, 20242 min read

A token passed as a build argument, removed in a later layer, and present in the image history for anybody who pulls it. A secret mount is available…

A deploy performed by a person, on purpose, once a month

NoteMay 16, 20242 min read

A fully automated deploy that nobody has run by hand in two years, and a rollback path nobody has exercised. An automated path that works is not evidence…

Handing over on-call to one other person

Deep diveMay 8, 202410 min read

One person who can fix anything, and a rota of one. Three years of incidents resolved by the same person, every time.

A multi-platform build for one arm64 laptop

NoteApril 30, 20242 min read

One person on an arm64 machine, and an image built for amd64 running under emulation at a third of the speed. Emulated cross-building is correct and slow enough…