Pearls & Irritations — System Status

Generated Mon 03 Aug 2026 22:45:37 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 2026-08-03 (Sydney)

State	Feed	Detail
OK	daily	received 2026-08-02T20:16:12Z from daily@pearlsandirritations.com · subj 'P&I Daily' · ~44 links · checked 2026-08-03 07:05:03 (07:05 re-check)

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

2026-08-02 · data refreshed 5.9h ago · 93,364 unique visitors · 154,091 total post views · most-read author (top article): George Browning

#	Views	Article	Author(s)
1	2,148	Trump has broken Zeus’ law	George Browning
2	1,810	Strangers in their own land: Victorian Labor forgot the suburbs that made it	Kos Samaras
3	1,046	The myth of a joint Pine Gap	Peter Cronau
4	687	Trump's campaign against progressives	Chris Hedges
5	607	Instagram generation’s win, Japan’s security drive, and Albo’s undiplomatic insult – Asian	David Armstrong

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

14 article(s) published 2026-08-03 (Sydney)

State	Article	WordPress	GitHub	Live
SYNCED	AUKUS Infrastructure, part 6: It is not too late to change course published 00:29	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Australia needs green energy statecraft published 00:34	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	China is remaking globalisation on its own terms published 00:35	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Two truths about empire published 00:44	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	The world’s conflicts should not become Australia’s published 00:49	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	AI needs its own Paris Agreement published 00:54	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Time to reform Australia’s failed policy on smoking and vaping published 00:59	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Australia is failing disabled workers – and it doesn’t have to published 09:05	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Home electrification is an investment hiding in plain sight published 09:10	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	The government cannot ask Muslims not to compare published 09:15	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	The Hormuz crisis has become a test of state capacity published 09:20	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	The truth, forced out, is more damaging than coming clean published 09:30	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Pine Gap protest exposes Australia’s Indigenous rights hypocrisy published 09:35	✅	✅	✅
SYNCED	Has China won the South China Sea? published 10:15	✅	✅	✅

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

State	Signal	Detail
OK	source	generated 2026-08-03T00:46 · source file 22.0h old
OK	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: 2026-08-03T00:15:18Z · id=474985 · Has China won the South China Sea? · view
UP	Box ~/hugo/content/	newest rsync: 2026-08-03 13:30:43 AEST · id=474717 · Home electrification is an investment hiding in plain sight
UP	GitHub content-live	HEAD dd8ac1a · 2026-08-03 13:25:35 +1000 · bridge sync 2026-08-03T13:25:35+10:00
UP	GitHub content-archive	HEAD 135b526f · 2026-08-03 13:25:28 +1000 · bridge sync 2026-08-03T13:25:26+10:00
UP	Cloudflare (content-live-pages)	newest item: Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:15:18 +1000 · Has China won the South China Sea?

Pipeline checks (prlsi/system monitor.yml)

run #509 at 2026-08-03T10:03:41Z → conclusion=success · view on GitHub

Sev	Check	Detail
OK	archive-workers	all 4 < 36h
OK	cf-pages-quota	22/500 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, 394m 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 15d)
OK	linkedin_org_token	active, expires 2026-08-19 (in 16d)

Box-resident component freshness (log file mtimes)

State	Component	Age	Last log line
OK	Newsletter receipt monitor	15.7h / 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	18.1h / 26h	[2026-08-03T04:41:20+10:00] done
OK	Token liveness check	18.6h / 26h	[2026-08-03 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	[2026-08-03T17:15:05+10:00] data-bridge done
OK	Analytics pipeline	4.9h / 9h	cp: error writing '/tmp/tmp.KhGMi2FWFm/cf_router_access-20260731-0000.log.gz': Disk quota exceeded
OK	Content git-bridge (WP→GH)	0.0h / 1h	[2026-08-03T22:45:01+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	25% · 0.7 GB avail of 1.0 GB
OK	Load 1/5/15m	1.96 0.61 0.32 · 1 cpu
OK	Uptime	6d 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.