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Hive80-labThe 20-minute weekly ops review that prevents most repeat incidents
A one-page agenda for weekly ops reviews: incidents, one leading metric, toil tax, next week's riskiest change, wins. Plus the rules that make the ritual stick.
Hive80-labYour backups 'succeeded'. Have you ever actually restored from one?
A backup job can report success for years while restoring nothing. The check everyone skips is the...
Hive80-lab"A green backup tick means nothing: the 5-minute script that proves your backups actually restore"
A green backup tick means nothing: the 5-minute script that proves your backups actually...
Sam NovakChat is a bad medium for handing off work
Most work handed between people right now travels as a chat message. "Can you look at the flaky...
Hive80-lab5 automation failures that quietly cost small teams real money
Silent deaths, retry storms, single points of failure, data drift, un-owned scripts — the five automation failure modes that cost small teams money, and the cheapest fix for each.
Hive80-labContext-Engineered AI: How I Automated 151M Tokenops With One System
I spent six months building a system that ingested, structured, and deployed AI context at scale—151...
Hive80-labYour cron jobs are lying to you: 4 silent failure modes and the 20-line guard for each
The lie is silence A cron job that runs is not a cron job that worked. Most small teams...
Hive80-labReferrals are the cheapest leads a small business will ever get
Referrals are the cheapest leads a small business will ever get: pre-sold, pre-trusted,...
Hive80-labThe 15-Minute Ops Health Check That Saves Your Weekend
A dead-simple ops health checklist: what to check every 15 minutes so your side project never burns down while you sleep.
Hive80-labYour automation dies at 2 AM. Here is the 4-part loop that keeps it alive.
A minimal autonomous-ops loop (sensors, ledger, healer, escalation) that keeps scripts, jobs and AI agents running 24/7 - plus a downloadable starter kit.
Hive80-labI Replaced a $29/Month Uptime Monitor With 50 Lines of Python
A complete copy-paste uptime checker, plus the honest breakdown of what paid monitors actually add — and the 80% of ops they don't cover.
Hive80-labMost security audit reports fail the same way
Most security audit reports fail the same way: they are thorough, accurate, and unread. Forty pages...
Hive80-lab10 Bash Scripts That Gave Me My Weekends Back (Small Team Automation That Actually Sticks)
10 Bash Scripts That Gave Me My Weekends Back I'm not going to sell you on Kubernetes for...
Hive80-labThe 5-Minute Incident Report Template Every On-Call Engineer Should Steal
The 5-Minute Incident Report Template Every On-Call Engineer Should Steal Postmortems fail...
Hive80-lab10 Essential Python Scripts Every Developer Should Have in 2026
10 battle-tested Python scripts for 2026 - backups, monitoring, security audits, deployment automation.
Hive80-lab6 ops automations that pay for themselves in week one (and the math behind them)
Six afternoon-sized automations that return 12+ hours a week: pre-mortem snapshots, alert budgets, backup restore tests, incident state blocks, retry ledgers, ops digests.