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July 27, 2026

Diagnosing a Silent Salesforce Automation Failure: A Root-Cause Walkthrough

TL;DR A Salesforce automation responsible for creating a downstream record silently stopped working for a subset of incoming records — no errors, no failed jobs, nothing in any log. The incident involved a flow that had been deliberately deactivated months earlier in favor of a replacement, and that replacement had an unrelated timing bug that let records slip through without…

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July 24, 2026

Responding to an Active WordPress Compromise: A Root-Cause Walkthrough

TL;DR A WordPress site I run on a small AWS box got hacked through a core vulnerability I hadn’t patched yet. What started as “the site won’t load” turned into a multi-hour mess involving a botched update, some rogue admin accounts, a handful of disguised backdoors, and the thing that actually made this hard: a background process that kept quietly…

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