https://www.phllaps.net/tags/automation/ Recent content in Automation on PhllapsNET Hugo en-gb Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.phllaps.net/blog/lessons-from-automating-things-that-run-unattended/ Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.phllaps.net/blog/lessons-from-automating-things-that-run-unattended/ <p>Most of what I run at home runs without me. Jobs fire on timers, do work, publish results, and tell me only if something interesting happened. That is the point of automation and it is also the danger of it: a job nobody watches can be broken for two weeks before anyone notices.</p> <p>These are lessons that cost me something. None are clever. Most are the kind of thing that reads as obvious and is not obvious until it has happened to you.</p>