Jekyll's Invisible Bug: When Code Fences Don't Protect Your Liquid Examples
If you write Jekyll posts about Jekyll, your Liquid code examples will silently vanish — or crash the build. Markdown code fences don't protect Liquid tags from execution. Here's how to find every affected post, why it sneaks up on you, and the fix that actually works.
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.