Pearls & Irritations — System Status

Generated Fri 07 Aug 2026 04:45:39 AEST · re-runs every 6 hours from box · this page is a snapshot, not live.

Content statusfor editors — newsletter, readership, today’s articles

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

Receipts for 2026-08-07 (Sydney)

State	Feed	Detail
PENDING	daily	not yet sent (daily expected ~06:00, check completes 07:05)

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

2026-08-06 · data refreshed 4.9h ago · 55,502 unique visitors · 163,270 total post views · most-read author (top article): Ross Gittins

#	Views	Article	Author(s)
1	972	Australia’s federation has survived 125 years of economic shocks	Ross Gittins
2	822	Israel accused of erasing evidence in Gaza	Brett Wilkins
3	761	Trump’s vanity battleship exposes AUKUS reactor problem	John Queripel
4	720	Terrorism and the deliberate corruption of language and meaning	John Menadue
5	466	Victorian Labor's collapse isn't about debt. It's about 2020	Kos Samaras

Published today (WordPress → GitHub → live front page — all three should sync up)

7 article(s) published 2026-08-07 (Sydney)

State	Article	WordPress	GitHub	Live
SYNCED	The program that quietly evaluated me published 00:07	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Can juries stay impartial in the opinion age? published 00:15	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Climate action starts with clearer language published 00:22	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Voters are not abandoning democracy – they are waiting for it to work published 00:30	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Plug-in solar could bring renters into the renewables boom published 00:37	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan win is a blow to AIPAC published 00:45	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Victorian Labor’s collapse isn’t about debt. It’s about 2020 published 00:52	✅	✅	✅

“Most read” freshness (home-page card: analytics → data-bridge → CF build)

State	Signal	Detail
OK	source	generated 2026-08-07T00:14 · source file 4.5h old
OK	live	live card shows 4/6 of today's top current-week articles (e.g. gen-z-is-not-ageing-into-the-old-australia)

Current week — top read articles

#	Views	Article	Author(s)
1	9,968	The half-empty hall: why Gen X broke Australian politics	Kos Samaras
2	5,497	Gen Z is not ageing into the old Australia	Kos Samaras
3	466	Victorian Labor's collapse isn't about debt. It's about 2020	Kos Samaras
4	1,126	How the Royal Commission should define antisemitism	Gareth Evans
5	3,268	What is the point of power without purpose?	John Menadue

System statusfor system administrators — pipeline, credentials, box health

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

State	Component	Newest article / status
UP	*WordPress (publish.)**	newest publish: 2026-08-06T14:52:30Z · id=475217 · Victorian Labor’s collapse isn’t about debt. It’s about 2020 · view
UP	Box ~/hugo/content/	newest rsync: 2026-08-07 01:00:10 AEST · id=475217 · Victorian Labor's collapse isn't about debt. It's about 2020
UP	GitHub content-live	HEAD bba93e3 · 2026-08-07 01:00:34 +1000 · bridge sync 2026-08-07T01:00:34+10:00
UP	GitHub content-archive	HEAD 58e911f5 · 2026-08-07 01:05:23 +1000 · bridge sync 2026-08-07T01:05:22+10:00
UP	Cloudflare (content-live-pages)	newest item: Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:52:30 +1000 · Victorian Labor's collapse isn't about debt. It's about 2020

Pipeline checks (prlsi/system monitor.yml)

run #532 at 2026-08-06T18:18:24Z → conclusion=failure · view on GitHub

Sev	Check	Detail

Tokens & credentials (box: token_liveness_check.py)

Last run 34m 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 11d)
OK	linkedin_org_token	active, expires 2026-08-19 (in 12d)

Box-resident component freshness (log file mtimes)

State	Component	Age	Last log line
OK	Newsletter receipt monitor	21.7h / 26h	[2026-08-06 07:05:04] OK — daily 07:05 re-check: received 2026-08-05T20:16:14Z from daily@pearlsandirritations.com (subj 'P&I Daily', ~44 links)
OK	POSTID_MAP KV refresh	0.1h / 26h	[2026-08-07T04:41:36+10:00] done
OK	Token liveness check	0.6h / 26h	[2026-08-07 04:10:14] 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	[2026-08-07T00:15:08+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	[2026-08-07T04:45:01+10:00] git-bridge start (full=0)

Machine health (box 45.76.119.197: disk / inodes / memory / load)

State	Metric	Value
OK	Disk / used	75% · 5.0 GB free of 25 GB
OK	/tmp used	1% · 495 MB free of 498 MB (tmpfs, RAM-backed, usrquota) · ours 4 MB
OK	Inodes / used	6%
OK	Memory used	26% · 0.7 GB avail of 1.0 GB
OK	Load 1/5/15m	0.89 0.57 0.38 · 1 cpu
OK	Uptime	10d 1h

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.