When Code Meets Life: Applying the Sysadmin Mindset to Family Chaos & Home Repairs

Pragmatic Sysadmin — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Last Tuesday the kitchen tap started dripping.

Not a lot. Just one drip every four seconds or so. Annoying, not alarming. The kind of thing you notice, mentally file under “weekend,” and then forget about for three weeks until it’s dripping onto the floor and you’ve got a puddle forming near the dishwasher.

I did what any sysadmin does. I didn’t fix it. I investigated it.

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When Code Meets Life: Applying the Sysadmin Mindset to Family Chaos & Home Repairs