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EdTheDev @edthedev

2026-10-10

This also led to a maybe new kind of parenting moment: I (gently, they are quite young) explained to my youngest that their power button pressing was what had prevented their older sibling from adding pizza to our shopping list a few minutes later.

I'm curious whether my youngest loves pizza or pushing interesting buttons more. I'm sure I will find out.

Of course, their sibling's laughter upon realizing what happened was probably the strongest factor, toward future behavior.

If it gets to be a habit, I might have to disable that power button, after all.

EdTheDev @edthedev

2026-10-10

A Linux microblog update:

My youngest child casually hit the power button on the front of one of my main server's today, with the confidence of someone who has probably done so a few times before.

This sheds some light on some mysterious service gaps I've noticed recently.

I fixed the situation by doing nothing. I'm a lazy enough DevOps that I knew one of my scheduled processes would automatically restore my key services soon enough.

This reveals a couple insights into my home lab devops:

1. I'm lazy enough that I build in substantial resilience.

2. I'm unattentive enough that I really should improve my logging and alerts to include "your kid pressed the power button".

And yes, I'm aware I could disable the button, but then I wouldn't get stories like this.

#Linux #devops #homelab #mollyguard