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Two Kinds of "Should We Add This Tool"

6 October 2026

Two Kinds of "Should We Add This Tool"

A status widget needed one number from a monitoring stack, and for a moment that looked like a reason to stand up Prometheus and Grafana. It wasn't — and the difference is a question worth asking every time.

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Setting Up a Private Admin Panel Without Ever Opening It Myself

24 September 2026

Setting Up a Private Admin Panel Without Ever Opening It Myself

A monitoring tool that never touches the public internet still needs a first-run setup wizard completed once. The setup happened through a tunnel and a script, not a browser tab someone sat in front of.

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Almost Reinventing Uptime Kuma, Badly

8 September 2026

Almost Reinventing Uptime Kuma, Badly

A live status widget needs uptime history, so the first plan was a scheduled GitHub Action writing heartbeats to a new table. The better plan was noticing a real monitoring tool was already on the skills list and never running anywhere.

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