Pearls & Irritations — System Status

Generated Tue 04 Aug 2026 22:45:36 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 2026-08-04 (Sydney)

State	Feed	Detail
OK	daily	received 2026-08-03T20:08:47Z from daily@pearlsandirritations.com · subj 'P&I Daily' · ~47 links · checked 2026-08-04 07:05:04 (07:05 re-check)

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

2026-08-03 · data refreshed 5.9h ago · 67,212 unique visitors · 155,678 total post views · most-read author (top article): Mainul Haque

#	Views	Article	Author(s)
1	1,780	The world’s conflicts should not become Australia’s	Mainul Haque
2	1,133	Time to reform Australia’s failed policy on smoking and vaping	Alex Wodak
3	926	Two truths about empire	Komla Tsey
4	871	Census 2026: Australia’s Muslim milestone is more than a number	Nail Aykan
5	752	AI needs its own Paris Agreement	Ana Palacio

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

14 article(s) published 2026-08-04 (Sydney)

State	Article	WordPress	GitHub	Live
SYNCED	Australia is failing disabled workers – and it doesn’t have to published 00:07	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Home electrification is an investment hiding in plain sight published 00:15	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	The government cannot ask Muslims not to compare published 00:22	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	The Hormuz crisis has become a test of state capacity published 00:30	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	The truth, forced out, is more damaging than coming clean published 00:37	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Pine Gap protest exposes Australia’s Indigenous rights hypocrisy published 00:45	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Has China won the South China Sea? published 00:52	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Disability statistics hide the burden public schools carry published 09:05	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	The lessons from 1914 and the great-power mistake we keep repeating published 09:10	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Construction corruption: does not stop at the bottom so follow it to the top published 09:15	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	IDF closes investigation into brutal 2023 settler attack on Palestinians without charges published 09:20	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Israel is losing America – and endangering Jews published 09:25	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Terrorism and the deliberate corruption of language and meaning published 09:50	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	The hounding of Tony Fauci shows Trump’s ugly America published 10:05	✅	✅	✅

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

State	Signal	Detail
OK	source	generated 2026-08-04T17:10 · source file 5.6h old
OK	live	live card shows 3/6 of today's top current-week articles (e.g. the-half-empty-hall-why-gen-x-broke-australian-politics)

Current week — top read articles

#	Views	Article	Author(s)
1	5,406	Gen Z is not ageing into the old Australia	Kos Samaras
2	9,798	The half-empty hall: why Gen X broke Australian politics	Kos Samaras
3	1,160	How the Royal Commission should define antisemitism	Gareth Evans
4	3,082	What is the point of power without purpose?	John Menadue
5	3,127	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: 2026-08-04T00:05:35Z · id=474944 · The hounding of Tony Fauci shows Trump’s ugly America · view
UP	Box ~/hugo/content/	newest rsync: 2026-08-04 11:57:31 AEST · id=475042 · IDF closes investigation into brutal 2023 settler attack on Palestinians without
UP	GitHub content-live	HEAD 5987635 · 2026-08-04 18:20:32 +1000 · bridge sync 2026-08-04T18:20:32+10:00
UP	GitHub content-archive	HEAD c93fae92 · 2026-08-04 18:20:25 +1000 · bridge sync 2026-08-04T18:20:24+10:00
UP	Cloudflare (content-live-pages)	newest item: Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:05:35 +1000 · The hounding of Tony Fauci shows Trump’s ugly America

Pipeline checks (prlsi/system monitor.yml)

run #516 at 2026-08-04T09:05:04Z → conclusion=success · view on GitHub

Sev	Check	Detail
OK	archive-workers	all 4 < 36h
OK	cf-pages-quota	37/500 builds used this month
OK	content-live	HEAD 59876351 up-to-date — WP source has nothing newer (HEAD age 0.7h)
INFO	e-click	/e/ → homepage (https://pearlsandirritations.com/?utm_source=pi_news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-2026-08-05) — 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	frontpage-parity	top-5 ids match; max date drift <5 min (newest WP id 475045)
OK	gh-rate-limit	REST core 0% used (0/5000)
OK	pages-deploy	success, 35m ago
OK	plugin-drift	all 5 plugin code files match prlsi/wp-pearls-custom-post-statuses@main
OK	token-expiry	CF token non-expiring or not reported
OK	wp-future	0 future posts, none overdue

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 14d)
OK	linkedin_org_token	active, expires 2026-08-19 (in 15d)

Box-resident component freshness (log file mtimes)

State	Component	Age	Last log line
OK	Newsletter receipt monitor	15.7h / 26h	[2026-08-04 07:05:04] OK — daily 07:05 re-check: received 2026-08-03T20:08:47Z from daily@pearlsandirritations.com (subj 'P&I Daily', ~47 links)
OK	POSTID_MAP KV refresh	18.1h / 26h	[2026-08-04T04:41:22+10:00] done
OK	Token liveness check	18.6h / 26h	[2026-08-04 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)	5.5h / 26h	[2026-08-04T17:15:09+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	[2026-08-04T22:45:01+10:00] git-bridge start (full=0)

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

State	Metric	Value
OK	Disk / used	71% · 5.9 GB free of 25 GB
OK	/tmp used	8% · 457 MB free of 498 MB (tmpfs, RAM-backed, usrquota) · ours 42 MB
OK	Inodes / used	5%
OK	Memory used	50% · 0.5 GB avail of 1.0 GB
OK	Load 1/5/15m	1.25 0.64 0.52 · 1 cpu
OK	Uptime	7d 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.