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