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# postmortem

Writing and sharing blameless postmortems that drive meaningful improvements.

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My Cleanup Script Killed the GitHub Runner: A Self-Inflicted Incident

My Cleanup Script Killed the GitHub Runner: A Self-Inflicted Incident

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4 min read
An Evening of Quirk Hunting in My AI Content Pipeline: 3 Bugs, 1…

An Evening of Quirk Hunting in My AI Content Pipeline: 3 Bugs, 1…

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5 min read
I Tested 6 Local Models on Real Agent Tasks. The Best Scored 50%.

I Tested 6 Local Models on Real Agent Tasks. The Best Scored 50%.

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My Cron Jobs Failed. I Didn't Check.

My Cron Jobs Failed. I Didn't Check.

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My Agent Kept Forgetting Everything. My Hand Was Forced.

My Agent Kept Forgetting Everything. My Hand Was Forced.

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The Art of Writing a Good Post-Mortem

The Art of Writing a Good Post-Mortem

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The Regex That Ran Unbounded

The Regex That Ran Unbounded

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7 min read
My Agent Said It Would Fix the Width. It Rebuilt the Whole Site Instead.

My Agent Said It Would Fix the Width. It Rebuilt the Whole Site Instead.

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Incident Retrospectives Without Blame

Incident Retrospectives Without Blame

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Postmortem: Our AI-Powered Chatbot Hallucinated Sensitive Data – Root Cause and Fix

Postmortem: Our AI-Powered Chatbot Hallucinated Sensitive Data – Root Cause and Fix

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My AI agent saved the first paragraph and the last. It dropped 41 in between.

My AI agent saved the first paragraph and the last. It dropped 41 in between.

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Postmortem: A Vercel Edge Function Timeout Caused Our Global API to Fail for 30 Minutes

Postmortem: A Vercel Edge Function Timeout Caused Our Global API to Fail for 30 Minutes

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How we almost wrote off 3 models as broken — the thinking-mode tax

How we almost wrote off 3 models as broken — the thinking-mode tax

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Postmortem: How a Corrupted Node Modules Folder Caused 3-Hour Outage for Our CI Pipeline

Postmortem: How a Corrupted Node Modules Folder Caused 3-Hour Outage for Our CI Pipeline

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Postmortem: AI Incident Classifier Failed Due to Biased Training Data and Scikit-Learn 1.5

Postmortem: AI Incident Classifier Failed Due to Biased Training Data and Scikit-Learn 1.5

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