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Adventures in Monitoring

Linux systems, reliability war stories, monitor recipes, and spec-driven agentic development around FTMON.

14 July 2026FTMON 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.