Common Mistakes

Git Things That Are Easy to Mess Up (Until They Bite You) Following up on last week’s Linux Things That Are Easy to Miss — same idea, different tool. Git is the second thing every sysadmin and dev uses daily, and like the Linux shell, it’s full of footguns that don’t bite until they really bite. ...

Linux Things That Are Easy to Miss (Until They Bite You) The other day I spent 20 minutes debugging a cron job that worked perfectly when I ran it from the shell. The fix? PATH was different in cron. That’s not a one-time thing — I trip over the same class of subtle Linux papercuts every few months. So I wrote them all down. ...