Field notes from production.
Real bugs from real systems, and exactly how they got fixed.
git push: "[remote rejected] master -> master (Internal Server Error)" is GitHub's problem, not your commits
git push fails with [remote rejected] (Internal Server Error) right after unpack ok. One no-op push proves it's GitHub, not your commits. Then you wait.
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- Oct 07 git push: "[remote rejected] master -> master (Internal Server Error)" is GitHub's problem, not your commits 07 Oct · git · github · cli
- 06 You can't remove the last tag from a Tailscale machine, but you can swap it 06 Oct · tailscale · ssh · networking
- 05 "Argument #4 must be of type …, … given": prod is running the last release's container 05 Oct · php · symfony
- Sep 27 DataForSEO says "You can set only one task at a time" and still returns 200 Ok 27 Sep · seo · api · debugging
- 24 My Postgres RLS policy ran its permission check 28,765 times per query 24 Sep · postgresql · debugging
- 24 X-Apple-Action: JUNK on an email that passed DMARC 24 Sep · email · llm · aws
- 23 Vercel Web Analytics served its script from a path with no leading slash 23 Sep · vercel · analytics · debugging
- 23 Git says "You have not agreed to the Xcode license agreements" 23 Sep · git · macos · cli
- 20 PHP's sprintf pads by bytes, so one † moved my table columns 20 Sep · php · cli · debugging
- 19 aws_instance must be replaced, because Amazon published a new AMI 19 Sep · aws · terraform · infrastructure
- 17 "zsh: bad CPU type in executable" after upgrading to macOS 27 17 Sep · macos · aws · cli
- 15 PostHog cookieless mode said 200 Ok and dropped every pageview 15 Sep · analytics · privacy · debugging
- 08 Moving a Route 53 hosted zone between AWS accounts 08 Sep · aws · dns · networking
- 05 Tailscale SSH: connection refused, permission denied, and which server actually answered 05 Sep · tailscale · ssh · networking
- 04 280 vulnerabilities, one unused package 04 Sep · security · linux
- Aug 28 mount.cifs said the credentials were formatted incorrectly. It was right. 28 Aug · linux · infrastructure
- 22 LocalStack exited with code 55 after a routine image update 22 Aug · docker · aws · debugging
- 18 The filename that works in bash and breaks in zsh 18 Aug · linux · bash · cli
- 14 Dart Sass quietly reordered my CSS 14 Aug · css · sass
- 10 "Cannot connect to MySQL using SSL" is a hostname problem 10 Aug · php · mysql · azure
- 06 Never let the LLM write the subject line 06 Aug · email · llm · aws
- Jul 28 Restate's default node name is your container hostname 28 Jul · docker
- 23 Symfony 8 ignores your #[Groups] attribute 23 Jul · php · symfony
- 13 The database was fine. The cloud around it wasn't. 13 Jul · azure · postgresql · networking
- Jun 20 Tailscale SSH fails with "tailnet policy does not permit access" 20 Jun · tailscale · ssh · networking
- 15 Modernization usually means rewriting everything wrong 15 Jun · openvms · legacy · modernization
- May 10 NAT Gateway is eating your AWS bill 10 May · aws · infrastructure · startups
- Apr 27 WordPress fleets on AWS are rotting from the database up 27 Apr · aws · wordpress · php
- 15 The one setting that stops Microsoft Authenticator spam 15 Apr · security · microsoft
- Mar 24 Your server is running two PHP versions (and one of them is lying) 24 Mar · php · apache · linux
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