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A postmortem should leave a fact record

August 24, 2026 · 2 min · XB Field Notes

Read the public edge in two commands

August 24, 2026 · 2 min · XB Field Notes

A maintenance timer should leave its last result visible

August 23, 2026 · 2 min · XB Field Notes

A release manifest should name every published byte

August 23, 2026 · 2 min · XB Field Notes

CAA records should authorize the issuer you actually use

August 23, 2026 · 2 min · XB Field Notes

Content-Type should describe the bytes you actually send

August 23, 2026 · 2 min · XB Field Notes

Cookie scope should be narrower than the application boundary

August 23, 2026 · 2 min · XB Field Notes

HEAD should describe the same representation as GET

August 23, 2026 · 2 min · XB Field Notes

HSTS should be rolled out with a recovery plan

August 23, 2026 · 2 min · XB Field Notes

Publish a static site by switching complete directories

August 23, 2026 · 2 min · XB Field Notes

Range requests should prove which bytes were selected

August 23, 2026 · 2 min · XB Field Notes

A release checklist for a static site

August 22, 2026 · 2 min · XB Field Notes

A release is not complete until the public edge agrees

August 22, 2026 · 2 min · XB Field Notes

A static server should have one obvious root

August 22, 2026 · 2 min · XB Field Notes

Backups are only useful after a restore rehearsal

August 22, 2026 · 2 min · XB Field Notes

Cache headers are a contract with two clocks

August 22, 2026 · 2 min · XB Field Notes

Certificate expiry is a date, not a dashboard color

August 22, 2026 · 2 min · XB Field Notes

Compression changes the selected HTTP representation

August 22, 2026 · 2 min · XB Field Notes

DNS changes need a cache-aware rollback window

August 22, 2026 · 2 min · XB Field Notes

Redirects and error codes should preserve the story

August 22, 2026 · 2 min · XB Field Notes

Reliable defaults beat clever recovery

August 22, 2026 · 2 min · XB Field Notes

Restart policies need a rate limit

August 22, 2026 · 2 min · XB Field Notes

robots.txt and sitemaps answer different questions

August 22, 2026 · 2 min · XB Field Notes

Security headers should describe the actual page

August 22, 2026 · 2 min · XB Field Notes

SSH host keys are part of the deployment record

August 22, 2026 · 2 min · XB Field Notes

The advantage of small systems

August 22, 2026 · 2 min · XB Field Notes