Pearls & Irritations — System Status

Generated Tue 21 Jul 2026 16:45:20 AEST · re-runs every 6 hours from box · this page is a snapshot, not live.

Newsletter delivery (receipt monitor: ~/status/newsletter_receipt_check.log)

Receipts for 2026-07-21 (Sydney)

State	Feed	Detail
OK	daily	received 2026-07-20T20:14:16Z from daily@pearlsandirritations.com · subj 'P&I Daily' · ~44 links · checked 2026-07-21 07:05:03 (07:05 re-check)
N/A	weekly	only sent on Sundays

Yesterday’s views (analytics pipeline: ~/analytics/output/daily_views_*.csv.gz)

2026-07-20 · data refreshed 4.9h ago · 37,625 unique visitors · 76,838 total post views · most-read author (top article): Peter Briggs

#	Views	Article	Author(s)
1	1,345	AUKUS leaves Australia with the long nuclear goodbye – part two	Peter Briggs
2	1,195	Australia needs a capability state	Stewart Sweeney
3	1,137	AUKUS is being exposed, but will anything change?	Julie Macken
4	806	Strengthening Medicare shouldn’t ignore the Australians who rely on private health cover	Meg Schwarz
5	763	Gaza: from genocide to engineering genocide	Refaat Ibrahim

Server & content pipeline (left → right: WordPress → box → GitHub → Cloudflare)

State	Component	Newest article / status
UP	*WordPress (publish.)**	newest publish: 2026-07-21T00:30:19Z · id=473743 · What is the point of power without purpose? · view
UP	Box ~/hugo/content/	newest rsync: 2026-07-21 11:21:10 AEST · id=473662 · Andy Burnham needs more than managerialism as Britain’s new PM
UP	GitHub content-live	HEAD 20b62eb · 2026-07-21 15:35:33 +1000 · bridge sync 2026-07-21T15:35:32+10:00
UP	GitHub content-archive	HEAD 6afe855f · 2026-07-21 15:35:25 +1000 · bridge sync 2026-07-21T15:35:24+10:00
UP	Cloudflare (content-live-pages)	newest item: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:30:19 +1000 · What is the point of power without purpose?

Pipeline checks (prlsi/system monitor.yml)

run #417 at 2026-07-21T03:42:49Z → conclusion=success · view on GitHub

Sev	Check	Detail
OK	archive-workers	all 4 < 36h
OK	cf-pages-quota	209/500 builds used this month
INFO	content-live	WP REST 415 from publish.* (can't fetch source truth this run; HEAD 53324487 age 2.2h). publish.* HTTP 415 (same WAF rejection — see wp-future above; not a separate incident).
INFO	e-click	/e/ → homepage (https://pearlsandirritations.com/?utm_source=pi_news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-2026-07-21) — expected intra-day (refresh_postid_kv runs 04:40; its own CRIT covers a real failure)
OK	feed-daily	10 items, fresh, matches Pages
INFO	frontpage-parity	publish.* HTTP 415 (same WAF rejection — see wp-future above; not a separate incident).
OK	gh-rate-limit	REST core 0% used (0/5000)
OK	pages-deploy	success, 103m ago
INFO	plugin-drift	publish.* HTTP 415 (same WAF rejection — see wp-future above; not a separate incident).
OK	token-expiry	CF token non-expiring or not reported
INFO	wp-cron-health	publish.* HTTP 415 (same WAF rejection — see wp-future above; not a separate incident).
INFO	wp-future	publish.* WP host HTTP 415 (hosting WAF likely rejecting this runner IP — same call from any other IP works; not a plugin/auth issue. Other publish.* checks in this run will be collapsed into this notice.)

Tokens & credentials (box: token_liveness_check.py)

Last run 12h34m ago

Sev	Credential	Detail
OK	cf_box_token	status=active expires=no-expiry
OK	fastmail	session ok
OK	github_ssh	Hi prlsi! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell a
OK	r2	listed
OK	aws_glacier	valid
OK	mailchimp	Everything's Chimpy!
OK	linkedin_token	active, expires 2026-08-17 (in 28d)
OK	linkedin_org_token	active, expires 2026-08-19 (in 29d)

Box-resident component freshness (log file mtimes)

State	Component	Age	Last log line
OK	Newsletter receipt monitor	9.7h / 26h	[2026-07-21 07:05:03] OK — daily 07:05 re-check: received 2026-07-20T20:14:16Z from daily@pearlsandirritations.com (subj 'P&I Daily', ~44 links)
OK	POSTID_MAP KV refresh	12.1h / 26h	[2026-07-21T04:41:33+10:00] done
OK	Token liveness check	12.6h / 26h	[2026-07-21 04:10:13] OK — all credentials live: cf_box_token:OK \| fastmail:OK \| github_ssh:OK \| r2:OK \| aws_glacier:OK \| mailchimp:OK \| linkedin_token:OK \| linkedin_org_token:OK
OK	Data-bridge (mostread→site)	4.5h / 26h	[2026-07-21T12:15:04+10:00] data-bridge done
OK	Analytics pipeline	4.5h / 9h	[0;34m[INFO][0m • https:///statistics/
OK	Content git-bridge (WP→GH)	0.0h / 1h	[2026-07-21T16:45:01+10:00] git-bridge start (full=0)

Sources: prlsi/system monitor.yml, ~/status/token_liveness_check.py --json, log files under ~/status/, ~/logs/, ~/analytics/. Renderer: ~/status/publish_status_page.py on box (45.76.119.197). Source repo: prlsi/status-page.