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Adventures in Monitoring
Linux systems, reliability war stories, monitor recipes, and spec-driven agentic development around FTMON.
FTMON Update: Automatic Database Cleanup and Better Status ReportingFTMON v2.0.0a15 automatically removes stale catalogue entries, improves database reporting, and returns more useful status information through MCP.
FTMON Now Runs on Windows and macOSFTMON v2.0.0a13 adds native Windows and macOS monitoring, platform-specific profiles, durable event collection, desktop notifications, and real-hardware validation.- FTMON is back: a 2001 Perl monitor, rebuilt in four days with a frontier modelTwenty-five years ago I wrote FTMON in Perl. This month I brought it back as a clean MIT Python rewrite — in four days, with a frontier model and a machine-checked spec.