When ZFS and Ceph Problems Collide: Diagnosing Overlapping Failures on Proxmox
A routine ZFS scrub alert on harlan turned into a multi-hour debugging session when a hostid mismatch fix collided with a pre-existing Ceph OSD failure from a dead USB drive. Here's how overlapping storage problems can mask each other and how to untangle them.
Ceph OSD Recovery After Power Failure: SAN Switch Was Dead the Whole Time
A power outage knocked my Ceph cluster from 15 healthy OSDs down to 4. The recovery took days of debugging — heartbeat cascades, a ceph.conf misconfiguration, and a dead SAN switch hiding behind NO-CARRIER flags on every node.
Integrating Jekyll-Pandoc-Exports Into a Real Project - Part 3: Bugs, Fixes, and HTML Cleanup
What happens when you integrate your own Jekyll plugin into a real project: three patch releases, a Ruby language gotcha, and the surprising difficulty of converting themed HTML into clean documents.
Your Jekyll Theme Is Probably Missing head and body Tags
Many Jekyll themes — especially minimal forks — ship without proper head and body tags. Browsers don't care. Bots do. Here's how to check and fix it in five minutes.
Fixing AdSense Verification Without Breaking GDPR: The Script Loading Mistake
My GDPR implementation was too aggressive — it hid the AdSense script from Google's verification bot. Here's how I separated verification from ad serving while keeping GDPR compliance intact.
Google AdSense Approval Failure: Debugging the 'Site Isn't Ready' Rejection
Another AdSense rejection with no specific details. Documenting the debugging process, fixes implemented, and the frustration of opaque rejection messages.
SASS Circular Dependency Nightmare: Lessons from Jekyll Architecture
How a simple print stylesheet addition turned into a deep dive into SASS module architecture and the perils of circular dependencies.