During an incident in August I searched our logs for errors from the fulfilment service over the previous hour and got nothing back. I took that to mean fulfilment was fine, and we spent forty minutes looking elsewhere. Fulfilment had been logging errors the whole time.
On Easter Monday our replenishment job did exactly what it does every Monday. It calculated stock, raised about two hundred and sixty purchase orders, and booked carrier collections for Tuesday morning. It also sent the week's delivery slots to our customers, including a batch of slots on the M...
A client asked me in July to stop forwarding her contact form leads to a spreadsheet and just handle them. Score the lead, draft a reply, ping her on Slack if it looked like a real budget, archive it if it looked like a recruiter spamming her about a job she didn't want. I built the whole thing...
The thread started with a simple question about whether to split the service. Four days later it has sixty replies, three side arguments, two proposals that half merged, and a manager who has just written: can someone tell me where we landed? Nobody answers for a while, because nobody is sure.
Why moderately critical advisories like CVE-2026-96360 get postponed Vulnerability overview SA-CONTRIB-2026-154 for CVE-2026-96360 was published by Drupal on 2026-September-23. It covers the Webform contributed module and carries Drupal's Moderately critical label with a score of 11 out of 25 an...
At fourteen minutes past three in the morning, UTC, on the nineteenth of January 2038, a counter runs out. A lot of software keeps time as the number of seconds since the first of January 1970. When that number is stored in a signed 32 bit integer, the largest value it can hold arrives on that ...