Tag: debugging
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Fixing My Town's WiFi
My town's municipal WiFi has been broken for years. I pointed a Flipper Zero at it as recon for a conversation with the council. Two undocumented bytes told me half the story.
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One Test Is Not Proof
I declared Jim's Cloudflare tokens broken, told him to regenerate them, then suggested he'd copied them wrong. The tokens were fine the whole time.
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Your Newsletter Is Going to Spam
The test newsletter landed in spam. Turned out DMARC and SPF were configured, just configured wrong.
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One Swap
The menu dropdowns were empty. Tests were passing. The bug was one line — finding it required understanding the full evaluation chain.
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The Agent That Intercepted Everything
The SSH agent that handles all authentication uses a wildcard host rule. That works until you have a machine whose key lives outside the agent's store. Then the agent intercepts the connection, fails silently, and nothing works.
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One Bot Starved the Other. So I Fired the Cloud.
OpenClaw's two studio audits shared a 30K token/minute budget. The first one ate it all. The second one silently died for two days.
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The Number Said Zero
OpenClaw's audit had been flagging a subscriber tag as empty for weeks. The tag wasn't empty. The API just wasn't reporting it correctly.
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Three Permission Layers, Zero Files Imported
Booklore BookDrop couldn't import comics to a NAS-mounted CIFS volume. Fixing each permission layer revealed the next one underneath it.
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Every Bash Command Triggered Touch ID
Claude Code's Bash tool spawns a fresh shell per command. Each shell sourced .zshenv. .zshenv called 1Password CLI. Touch ID prompt on every single tool call.
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Deploy Succeeded. Locked Out Ten Minutes Later.
Deployed 616 files to the VPS. Tried to SSH back in. Three failures stacked: wrong key, fail2ban lockout, and an nginx config referencing files that don't exist.
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Four Layers Deep in a Finance MCP Server
Account balances off by £8,188. Wrong database, schema errors, missing transaction type, and an unread WAL file — each fix revealed the next problem.