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.
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.
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.
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.
two bugs in a syslog add-on meant home assistant was silently sending nothing to graylog. both bugs were invisible.
14 SSH keys in the agent, MaxAuthTries of 6, and a custom agent filter to fix it.
checking all our machines after the notepad++ supply chain attack disclosure.
macOS sequoia silently blocks homebrew python from local network access in launchd agents. system python works fine.
a discord bot couldn’t download youtube clips. the error said ’no javascript runtime.’ it was running in docker without node.
getting ansible to manage windows workstations. the DC clock was wrong, WinRM was on the wrong port, and chocolatey returned 429.