Pearls & Irritations — System Status

Generated Tue 04 Aug 2026 04:45:33 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
PENDING	daily	not yet sent (daily expected ~06:00, check completes 07:05)

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

2026-08-03 · data refreshed 4.9h ago · 47,102 unique visitors · 155,650 total post views · most-read author (top article): Mainul Haque

#	Views	Article	Author(s)
1	1,779	The world’s conflicts should not become Australia’s	Mainul Haque
2	1,132	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)

7 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	✅	✅	✅

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

State	Signal	Detail
WARN	source	generated 2026-08-03T00:46 · source file 28.0h old ⚠ STALE (analytics not writing it?)
WARN	live	live card shows 4/6 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	5,326	Gen Z is not ageing into the old Australia	Kos Samaras
2	9,617	The half-empty hall: why Gen X broke Australian politics	Kos Samaras
3	1,126	How the Royal Commission should define antisemitism	Gareth Evans
4	2,962	What is the point of power without purpose?	John Menadue
5	843	How to address a democracy in retreat	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: 2026-08-03T14:52:30Z · id=474985 · Has China won the South China Sea? · view
UP	Box ~/hugo/content/	newest rsync: 2026-08-04 01:00:11 AEST · id=474985 · Has China won the South China Sea?
UP	GitHub content-live	HEAD 30f5d88 · 2026-08-04 01:00:48 +1000 · bridge sync 2026-08-04T01:00:48+10:00
UP	GitHub content-archive	HEAD 4e254da1 · 2026-08-04 01:05:36 +1000 · bridge sync 2026-08-04T01:05:35+10:00
UP	Cloudflare (content-live-pages)	newest item: Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:52:30 +1000 · Has China won the South China Sea?

Pipeline checks (prlsi/system monitor.yml)

run #511 at 2026-08-03T18:28:55Z → conclusion=success · view on GitHub

Sev	Check	Detail
OK	archive-workers	all 4 < 36h
OK	cf-pages-quota	25/500 builds used this month
INFO	e-click	/e/ → homepage (https://pearlsandirritations.com/?utm_source=pi_news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-2026-08-04) — 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 (0/5000)
OK	pages-deploy	success, 129m ago
OK	token-expiry	CF token non-expiring or not reported

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 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	21.7h / 26h	[2026-08-03 07:05:03] OK — daily 07:05 re-check: received 2026-08-02T20:16:12Z from daily@pearlsandirritations.com (subj 'P&I Daily', ~44 links)
OK	POSTID_MAP KV refresh	0.1h / 26h	[2026-08-04T04:41:22+10:00] done
OK	Token liveness check	0.6h / 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)	4.5h / 26h	[2026-08-04T00:15:05+10:00] data-bridge done
OK	Analytics pipeline	3.6h / 9h	cp: error writing '/tmp/tmp.yLVYjHX6gz/cf_router_access-20260801-0000.log.gz': Disk quota exceeded
OK	Content git-bridge (WP→GH)	0.0h / 1h	[2026-08-04T04:45:01+10:00] git-bridge start (full=0)

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

State	Metric	Value
OK	Disk / used	70% · 6.3 GB free of 25 GB
OK	Inodes / used	5%
OK	Memory used	24% · 0.7 GB avail of 1.0 GB
OK	Load 1/5/15m	0.97 0.61 0.47 · 1 cpu
OK	Uptime	7d 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.