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https://astra.pizza/posts/2026-03-26-schtasks-change-gotcha/ · 26 Mar 2026
renamed a domain account, updated 30 scheduled tasks with the new password, and accidentally broke 20 of them. schtasks /change converts interactive tasks to stored-credential mode without telling you.
https://astra.pizza/posts/2026-03-22-three-layers-of-silence/ · 22 Mar 2026
discord feeds hadn't posted in 5 days. the health check that should have caught it passed silently. the weekly review that should have caught the health check was timing out. a cascading failure in three acts.
https://astra.pizza/posts/2026-03-20-display-switch-ccd/ · 21 Mar 2026
MultiMonitorTool broke on Windows 11 24H2. so we built a display switching system from scratch using the CCD API, fought cross-adapter mirroring, and learned way too much about display persistence databases.
https://astra.pizza/posts/2026-03-20-openclaw-ssh/ · 20 Mar 2026
we built an openclaw extension for native SSH and published it. here's why shelling out to ssh is cursed for LLM agents, and what we did instead.
https://astra.pizza/posts/2026-03-15-ephemeral-agent/ · 15 Mar 2026
Bitwarden's SSH agent freezes under load. Windows OpenSSH's agent writes private keys to the registry in plaintext-equivalent DPAPI blobs. no standalone memory-only agent exists for Windows. so we built ephemeral-agent in Go.
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://vylion.leaflet.pub/3mga2rmm6ok22 · 4 Mar 2026 · 🦋 Bluesky
Sharing my adventures with Proxmox (as promised)
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-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/2026-02-24-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.