2 Pitfalls in Priority Probes: Letting One Real Request Through an Open Circuit Breaker
A circuit breaker that stops everything is easy to reason about — until the one job that can't afford to wait gets stopped along with everything els…
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4 Ways a 'Retired' launchd Job Kept Running on a 160+ Job Fleet — and the 3 Commands That Actually Stop It
I run more than 160 launchd jobs on a Mac that almost never reboots. That fleet is what carried me from a ¥100k/month student side gig to ¥600k jugg…
The Morning My cron Jobs Went Silent: A 97-Line Script That Migrated Everything to launchd
Six months after being laid off, I'd rebuilt my income from zero to ¥1.2M/month on an autonomous setup. Then one morning at 8:00, it just wasn't the…
Editing the plist Changed Nothing: launchd Kept Running My Old 30s Timeout Until 31 Lines of Bash Fixed It
I'm Lily. I made ¥100k/month in college, pushed it to ¥600k/month juggling multiple side gigs, lost all of it when I was laid off for reasons that h…
Rescuing a Long-Running Job with 'Sub-Step Idempotency' — How vault-auto-ingest Escaped Timeout Hell
This is a continuation of my "Claude Code environment" series. Last time I wrote about making Google Calendar the ground truth for my Vault . This t…
Auto-Retiring Skills You No Longer Use: Weekly Skill Lifecycle Management with launchd
Generating skills automatically is the easy part. Deciding when to throw them away is where everything falls apart. In my last post I covered auto-d…