Pearls & Irritations — System Status

Generated Thu 06 Aug 2026 22:45:38 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 2026-08-06 (Sydney)

State	Feed	Detail
OK	daily	received 2026-08-05T20:16:14Z from daily@pearlsandirritations.com · subj 'P&I Daily' · ~44 links · checked 2026-08-06 07:05:04 (07:05 re-check)

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

2026-08-05 · data refreshed 5.9h ago · 64,532 unique visitors · 157,105 total post views · most-read author (top article): John Menadue

#	Views	Article	Author(s)
1	1,825	Terrorism and the deliberate corruption of language and meaning	John Menadue
2	1,564	Israel is losing America – and endangering Jews	Refaat Ibrahim
3	1,243	The hounding of Tony Fauci shows Trump’s ugly America	John Dwyer
4	874	Pine Gap protest exposes Australia’s Indigenous rights hypocrisy	Henry Reynolds
5	692	IDF closes investigation into brutal 2023 settler attack on Palestinians without charges	Stephen Prager

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

14 article(s) published 2026-08-06 (Sydney)

State	Article	WordPress	GitHub	Live
SYNCED	Trump’s vanity battleship exposes AUKUS reactor problem published 00:07	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Need, not visa status, should determine how we treat the homeless published 00:15	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	University racism definitions won’t dismantle racism published 00:22	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	India’s students reject the compliance machine published 00:30	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Israel accused of erasing evidence in Gaza published 00:37	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Australia’s federation has survived 125 years of economic shocks published 00:45	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	What I saw in the West Bank published 00:52	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	The program that quietly evaluated me published 09:05	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Can juries stay impartial in the opinion age? published 09:10	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Climate action starts with clearer language published 09:15	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Voters are not abandoning democracy – they are waiting for it to work published 09:20	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Plug-in solar could bring renters into the renewables boom published 09:25	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan win is a blow to AIPAC published 09:45	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Victorian Labor’s collapse isn’t about debt. It’s about 2020 published 10:05	✅	✅	✅

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

State	Signal	Detail
OK	source	generated 2026-08-06T17:09 · source file 5.6h old
OK	live	live card shows 3/6 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	9,945	The half-empty hall: why Gen X broke Australian politics	Kos Samaras
2	5,493	Gen Z is not ageing into the old Australia	Kos Samaras
3	1,172	How the Royal Commission should define antisemitism	Gareth Evans
4	3,237	What is the point of power without purpose?	John Menadue
5	3,663	Strangers in their own land: Victorian Labor forgot the suburbs that made it	Kos Samaras

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: 2026-08-06T00:05:39Z · id=475217 · Victorian Labor’s collapse isn’t about debt. It’s about 2020 · view
UP	Box ~/hugo/content/	newest rsync: 2026-08-06 11:57:23 AEST · id=475327 · Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan win is a blow to AIPAC
UP	GitHub content-live	HEAD 4f837b9 · 2026-08-06 18:20:31 +1000 · bridge sync 2026-08-06T18:20:30+10:00
UP	GitHub content-archive	HEAD f1ef34ca · 2026-08-06 18:20:23 +1000 · bridge sync 2026-08-06T18:20:22+10:00
UP	Cloudflare (content-live-pages)	newest item: Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:05:39 +1000 · Victorian Labor's collapse isn't about debt. It's about 2020

Pipeline checks (prlsi/system monitor.yml)

run #530 at 2026-08-06T09:03:57Z → conclusion=success · view on GitHub

Sev	Check	Detail
OK	archive-workers	all 4 < 36h
OK	cf-pages-quota	66/500 builds used this month
INFO	e-click	/e/ → homepage (https://pearlsandirritations.com/?utm_source=pi_news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-2026-08-07) — expected intra-day (refresh_postid_kv runs 04:40; its own CRIT covers a real failure)
OK	feed-daily	10 items, fresh, matches Pages
OK	gh-rate-limit	REST core 0% used (1/5000)
OK	pages-deploy	success, 34m ago
OK	token-expiry	CF token non-expiring or not reported

Tokens & credentials (box: token_liveness_check.py)

Last run 18h34m 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 12d)
OK	linkedin_org_token	active, expires 2026-08-19 (in 13d)

Box-resident component freshness (log file mtimes)

State	Component	Age	Last log line
OK	Newsletter receipt monitor	15.7h / 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	18.1h / 26h	[2026-08-06T04:41:28+10:00] done
OK	Token liveness check	18.6h / 26h	[2026-08-06 04:10:12] 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)	5.5h / 26h	[2026-08-06T17:15:08+10:00] data-bridge done
OK	Analytics pipeline	5.6h / 9h	[0;34m[INFO][0m • https:///statistics/
OK	Content git-bridge (WP→GH)	0.0h / 1h	[2026-08-06T22:45:01+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	4% · 477 MB free of 498 MB (tmpfs, RAM-backed, usrquota) · ours 22 MB
OK	Inodes / used	6%
OK	Memory used	37% · 0.6 GB avail of 1.0 GB
OK	Load 1/5/15m	0.85 0.32 0.29 · 1 cpu
OK	Uptime	9d 19h

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.