War stories from the data center floor. Names of clients redacted, names of failed NVRAM modules preserved for posterity.
2026.07.02RESOLVED
The 3AM NVRAM Swap
A DD9910 called for help at the worst possible hour. Walked through filesys disable, pulled the NVRAM from Slot 0, and had the array back on its feet before the coffee finished brewing. Some nights the paperwork is scarier than the hardware.
2026.06.19RESOLVED
PowerStore vs. the Flaky Fibre Path
A path kept flapping just enough to be annoying and not enough to page anyone. Turned out to be a bad SFP hiding in plain sight. Lesson: check the boring things first.
2026.05.30ONGOING
Notes on Building a Claude + Notion Workflow
Slowly turning a pile of P1 tickets and vendor docs into something searchable. No native auto-sync yet, so it's a manual save-at-the-end-of-conversation habit for now.