Pearls & Irritations — System Status

Generated Wed 05 Aug 2026 04:45:38 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 2026-08-05 (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)

2026-08-04 · data refreshed 4.9h ago · 47,920 unique visitors · 151,282 total post views · most-read author (top article): Charles Coppel

#	Views	Article	Author(s)
1	2,401	Home electrification is an investment hiding in plain sight	Charles Coppel
2	723	The world’s conflicts should not become Australia’s	Mainul Haque
3	677	Strangers in their own land: Victorian Labor forgot the suburbs that made it	Kos Samaras
4	637	Has China won the South China Sea?	Geoff Raby
5	611	Trump has broken Zeus’ law	George Browning

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

7 article(s) published 2026-08-05 (Sydney)

State	Article	WordPress	GitHub	Live
SYNCED	Disability statistics hide the burden public schools carry published 00:07	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	The lessons from 1914 and the great-power mistake we keep repeating published 00:15	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Construction corruption: does not stop at the bottom so follow it to the top published 00:22	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	IDF closes investigation into brutal 2023 settler attack on Palestinians without charges published 00:30	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Israel is losing America – and endangering Jews published 00:37	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Terrorism and the deliberate corruption of language and meaning published 00:45	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	The hounding of Tony Fauci shows Trump’s ugly America published 00:52	✅	✅	✅

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

State	Signal	Detail
OK	source	generated 2026-08-05T00:15 · source file 4.5h 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	5,416	Gen Z is not ageing into the old Australia	Kos Samaras
2	9,837	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	3,101	What is the point of power without purpose?	John Menadue
5	3,282	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: 2026-08-04T14:52:30Z · id=474944 · The hounding of Tony Fauci shows Trump’s ugly America · view
UP	Box ~/hugo/content/	newest rsync: 2026-08-05 01:00:10 AEST · id=474944 · The hounding of Tony Fauci shows Trump’s ugly America
UP	GitHub content-live	HEAD 16690ac · 2026-08-05 01:00:32 +1000 · bridge sync 2026-08-05T01:00:32+10:00
UP	GitHub content-archive	HEAD 5d6c161b · 2026-08-05 01:05:23 +1000 · bridge sync 2026-08-05T01:05:23+10:00
UP	Cloudflare (content-live-pages)	newest item: Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:52:30 +1000 · The hounding of Tony Fauci shows Trump’s ugly America

Pipeline checks (prlsi/system monitor.yml)

run #518 at 2026-08-04T18:19:33Z → conclusion=success · view on GitHub

Sev	Check	Detail
OK	archive-workers	all 4 < 36h
OK	cf-pages-quota	40/500 builds used this month
OK	content-live	HEAD 16690ac3 up-to-date — WP source has nothing newer (HEAD age 3.3h)
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, 120m ago
OK	token-expiry	CF token non-expiring or not reported
OK	wp-cron-health	reschedule=success (count=7, start=2026-08-05T01:00:02+10:00); md_export errors=0
OK	wp-future	0 future posts, none overdue

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 13d)
OK	linkedin_org_token	active, expires 2026-08-19 (in 14d)

Box-resident component freshness (log file mtimes)

State	Component	Age	Last log line
OK	Newsletter receipt monitor	21.7h / 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	0.0h / 26h	[2026-08-05T04:42:10+10:00] done
OK	Token liveness check	0.6h / 26h	[2026-08-05 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	[2026-08-05T00:15:06+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	[2026-08-05T04:45:01+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	3% · 483 MB free of 498 MB (tmpfs, RAM-backed, usrquota) · ours 15 MB
OK	Inodes / used	5%
OK	Memory used	27% · 0.7 GB avail of 1.0 GB
OK	Load 1/5/15m	0.78 0.44 0.37 · 1 cpu
OK	Uptime	8d 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.