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      "url": "https://stefanyasin.github.io/blog/posts/check-if-python-package-is-malicious.html",
      "title": "How to check whether a Python package is malicious",
      "date_published": "2026-10-21T00:00:00Z",
      "summary": "A backdoored LiteLLM release shipped a credential stealer in site-packages. The checks I run before and after installing a dependency."
    },
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      "id": "https://stefanyasin.github.io/blog/posts/alert-severity-that-people-respect.html",
      "url": "https://stefanyasin.github.io/blog/posts/alert-severity-that-people-respect.html",
      "title": "Alert severity that people actually respect",
      "date_published": "2026-10-11T00:00:00Z",
      "summary": "Most alerting systems have too many levels and no owners. The four-tier severity model I use, with ack windows and escalation timers."
    },
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      "id": "https://stefanyasin.github.io/blog/posts/monitoring-a-homelab-you-cant-always-reach.html",
      "url": "https://stefanyasin.github.io/blog/posts/monitoring-a-homelab-you-cant-always-reach.html",
      "title": "Monitoring a homelab you cannot always reach",
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      "summary": "Silent failures cost the most. What to watch in a remote lab, what to ignore, and the outside-in heartbeat that catches a dead monitoring host."
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      "id": "https://stefanyasin.github.io/blog/posts/zero-dollar-homelab-enterprise-ops.html",
      "url": "https://stefanyasin.github.io/blog/posts/zero-dollar-homelab-enterprise-ops.html",
      "title": "What a $0 home lab taught me about enterprise ops",
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      "summary": "Break things on purpose so production stays boring: the cost discipline, failure modes, and transferable lessons of running a lab on leftovers."
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      "id": "https://stefanyasin.github.io/blog/posts/from-apple-genius-to-ai-ops-tooling.html",
      "url": "https://stefanyasin.github.io/blog/posts/from-apple-genius-to-ai-ops-tooling.html",
      "title": "From Apple Genius to building AI ops tooling",
      "date_published": "2026-08-30T00:00:00Z",
      "summary": "Explaining tech to humans in 2014 turned out to be the same skill as building systems that explain themselves in 2026."
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      "id": "https://stefanyasin.github.io/blog/posts/why-i-open-source-my-monitoring-tools.html",
      "url": "https://stefanyasin.github.io/blog/posts/why-i-open-source-my-monitoring-tools.html",
      "title": "Why I open-source my monitoring tools",
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      "url": "https://stefanyasin.github.io/blog/posts/incident-response-hours-to-minutes.html",
      "title": "How I cut incident response from hours to minutes",
      "date_published": "2026-08-28T00:00:00Z",
      "summary": "Collect, enrich, route, escalate. How I rebuilt alerting across a multi-site manufacturing operation."
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      "id": "https://stefanyasin.github.io/blog/posts/backporting-modern-monitoring-to-legacy-poweredge.html",
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      "title": "Backporting modern health monitoring onto 2016-era servers",
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      "summary": "A testable decision core behind a thin hardware layer: rackpulse on old Dell PowerEdge and ESXi 6.7."
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      "summary": "Three tools that talk to each other beat eight that don't. The agent stack my job hunt and my lab run on."
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      "url": "https://stefanyasin.github.io/blog/posts/solar-powered-lab-that-simulates-a-data-center.html",
      "title": "The solar-powered lab that simulates a data center",
      "date_published": "2026-08-28T00:00:00Z",
      "summary": "A 40GbE backbone, whole-home automation, and why the lab is the best interview prep I know."
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