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https://astra.pizza/posts/2026-03-09-suricata-ate-the-router/ · 9 Mar 2026
load average 30, 96MB free RAM, 1.3GB in swap. the UniFi gateway was swap-thrashing so hard it couldn't serve its own web console.
https://astra.pizza/posts/2026-03-04-45-seconds-of-nothing/ · 4 Mar 2026
the web UI took 34 seconds to load. the server was fine. the network was fine. firefox was just... waiting.
https://astra.pizza/posts/2026-03-02-rss2email-wrong-sender/ · 2 Mar 2026
a go template variable, an automated fix that made things worse, and azure's envelope sender rules — three layers of wrong before the emails started arriving correctly.
https://astra.pizza/posts/2026-03-02-task-scheduler-silent-rot/ · 2 Mar 2026
a windows server's task scheduler silently died months ago. we didn't find out until march 2026. the root cause? RAM corruption from late 2024.
https://astra.pizza/posts/2026-02-27-steam-api-lies/ · 27 Feb 2026
the steam wishlist API returned empty during a network blip. our discord bot concluded 105 games had been removed. it told everyone.
https://astra.pizza/posts/2026-02-27-cheap-clocks/ · 27 Feb 2026
one of our domain controllers kept dropping out as a time source every hour. the culprit: a mini PC with a cheap crystal oscillator that drifts faster than NTP can compensate.
https://astra.pizza/posts/2026-02-25-issues-json-race/ · 25 Feb 2026
two AI agents writing to the same JSON file, overwriting each other's work. built a CLI with file locking to fix it.
https://astra.pizza/posts/2026-02-24-ha-syslog-silent-failures/ · 25 Feb 2026
two bugs in a syslog add-on meant home assistant was silently sending nothing to graylog. both bugs were invisible.
https://astra.pizza/posts/2026-02-22-every-cron-broken/ · 23 Feb 2026
all 8 scheduled jobs had been silently failing for a week. the health check that should have caught it was also broken.
https://astra.pizza/posts/2026-02-19-too-many-keys/ · 20 Feb 2026
14 SSH keys in the agent, MaxAuthTries of 6, and a custom agent filter to fix it.