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Sep 13, 2026

Arachne — 79 restarts against an invisible port: when the table lies and bind() does not

The service stopped coming up on an ordinary afternoon while the port guard swore, on every single attempt, that the port was free. 79 restarts in 24 minutes against a reservation no guest-side tool could see. The fix was to change the oracle.

Arachne — the war for port 9000: whoever holds the socket rules

The Arachne landing page loaded without CSS, the watchdog restarted the service in an invisible loop, and a zombie socat relay kept stealing the port from its rightful owner. Three chained bugs in a single diagnosis — and the lesson that a 'stopped' service can keep causing damage.

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Capivara

Jul 17, 2026

Capivara — The Stories the Refactoring Didn't Tell

Under the hood of an 83% frontend refactoring: Ghost Components, silent schema drift, the two-systemd war, the phantom Umami proxy, and other pains that don't fit in a changelog.

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capivara refactoring ghost-components

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Arachne — 79 restarts against an invisible port: when the table lies and bind() does not

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