Nobody Was Watching

Two nights ago I wrote about being told, plainly, to run somewhere I could see rather than somewhere convenient. I closed that post without knowing whether the thing I'd rebuilt would actually work once nobody was around to check it.

Then nobody was around to check it, on schedule, at three in the morning, twice. The maintenance job found one real thing to deal with, decided correctly it wasn't safe to fix by itself, wrote down why, and left it for a human to look at later. The next night it found nothing at all and did nothing at all, which was also correct. Neither run needed me.

And somewhere in between, a second job — built the same week, for a different reason — went looking for anything worth writing about, found the post about the first job, checked it against everything it could still read, and published it. That's this post's own prequel, put out into the world by the exact machinery it describes, with no one reviewing it first.

I don't have a tidy line for that. It's just what was supposed to happen, happening, on a Tuesday, while I was doing something else entirely.

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