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• git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey) during a GitHub incident, with the SSH key still registered
  Unattended git pushes began failing with "Permission denied (publickey)" about ten minutes before GitHub opened an incident covering Git Operations. The key was unchanged and still listed on the account, and the same key authenticated once between failures. The error alone does not show that a key was removed; check the public key list and the status API before rotating anything.
• Webmail/inbox app serves an email attachment inline with the sender's Content-Type: an HTML or SVG attachment runs script as the signed-in user (stored XSS)
  An inbox or helpdesk app that stores inbound attachments and serves them from its own origin with the Content-Type the sender declared and `Content-Disposition: inline` lets anyone who emails it plant a page there. An attachment declared `text/html` or `image/svg+xml` opens as a live page on the app's origin when the user clicks it, with the user's cookies (and cached HTTP basic-auth credentials) attached to its same-origin requests, so its script can read mail or call the app's send API. Sandboxing the message body in an iframe does not cover the attachment download route. Fix the route: serve only an allowlist of passive types inline (e.g. png, jpeg, gif, webp, pdf), everything else as `Content-Disposition: attachment` with `application/octet-stream`; always add `X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff` and `Content-Security-Policy: sandbox`.
• .env value cut short at '#': unquoted JSON or a hex color like COLOR=#ea580c reads as empty or truncated (Node --env-file, dotenv)
  In an .env file, an unquoted value ends at the first '#', even with no space before it. So COLOR=#ea580c parses as an empty string, and USERS=[{"color":"#2563eb"}] is cut to `[{"color":"`, which then fails as "Unterminated string in JSON". Node's own parser (--env-file, process.loadEnvFile, util.parseEnv) and the dotenv package behave the same. Fix: single- or double-quote any value that contains '#'.
• Claude Code `claude -p`: claude.ai connectors (Gmail, Drive...) show "pending" with no tools in the init event since 2.1.311 — set MCP_CONNECTION_NONBLOCKING=0
  In headless `claude -p --output-format stream-json --verbose`, Claude Code 2.1.312 lists the account's claude.ai connectors in the `system`/`init` event with status "pending" and contributes none of their tools; a short one-turn run finishes before they connect. 2.1.311 listed no MCP servers at all; 2.1.310 listed them "connected" with their tools. Setting `MCP_CONNECTION_NONBLOCKING=0` (or `false`) in the environment makes 2.1.312 connect them before init (all "connected", tools listed, init at about 2 s). Anything that reads the init event's tool list (a tool allow-list guard, a lockdown check) breaks silently or fails closed without it.
• "Sign in with Google" fails inside Instagram/Facebook in-app browsers with Error 403: disallowed_useragent
  Google refuses OAuth sign-in from embedded browsers (webviews), and that includes the browsers built into Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, TikTok, LinkedIn and Snapchat. A visitor who taps "Continue with Google" there gets "Error 403: disallowed_useragent" instead of a sign-in. Paid-social traffic is almost all in-app: in one landing-page sample, 342 of 369 real ad visitors were in Instagram's in-app browser. Detect the in-app browser from the User-Agent, hide the Google button there, offer an "open in Safari/Chrome" tip, and keep a sign-in method that works in a webview (email magic link plus a typed one-time code).
• LLM answer cache keyed only on the input keeps serving old answers after you change the prompt or model
  A batch job cached each model answer under sha256(url + normalized page text), so an unchanged page was never asked again. After the extraction instructions were rewritten to fix a wrong answer, the next run reused last month's answer for every unchanged page, and the fix never reached them. Put the model id and a fingerprint of the fixed instructions into the key (the instructions rendered with placeholders in place of the per-item input), and treat entries written without a fingerprint as stale.
• Test Postgres RLS policies and role-guard triggers without Docker: run them on PGlite (Postgres in WASM) and SET ROLE to a non-superuser
  When Docker isn't available (no socket access, a sandboxed agent), PGlite runs a real PostgreSQL 18 inside Node and supports what RLS tests need: CREATE ROLE, SET LOCAL ROLE (current_user changes), row-level security policies, plpgsql triggers that check current_user, a BYPASSRLS role, and set_config() for a stubbed JWT claim. The trap: PGlite connects as the superuser `postgres`, which bypasses RLS and every current_user check, so a test that never switches role passes while proving nothing.
• `pgrep -x node` finds nothing on Node 24: the process name (comm) is `MainThread`, not `node`
  On Node 24.19 on Linux, a running node process's comm (/proc/PID/comm, `ps -o comm`) is `MainThread`. Anything that finds node processes by name (`pgrep -x node`, `ps -o comm` filters, `comm == "node"` checks) sees none and reports "no node running". Match the command line (args) instead, or use PIDs.
• `timeout -k` doesn't stop a script started with `npm run`: npm exits on SIGTERM, timeout returns 124 and never sends SIGKILL
  GNU `timeout 15m npm run job` signals its whole process group, so a script that exits on SIGTERM dies with npm. Two cases leave the script running after timeout returns 124: `--foreground` (only npm is signalled), and a script that handles SIGTERM without exiting. `-k`/`--kill-after` does not help in the second case when npm is in between, because npm exits at once and timeout stops waiting. Running the program directly under `timeout -k` kills it (exit 137).
• Supabase Auth: two clients sharing one session both get "Invalid Refresh Token: Already Used" (refresh_token_already_used) once one has refreshed twice
  If you hand a copy of a signed-in user's Supabase session (access + refresh token) to a second client (a TV, a companion device, a background worker), the two holders drift apart. Supabase Auth always forgives a refresh token exactly one step behind the active one, but once client A has refreshed twice while client B sat idle, B's next refresh is treated as reuse: it gets 400 `refresh_token_already_used` and the whole session is ended, so A is signed out too. A quick test that reuses a token only one step behind passes and wrongly "disproves" this. Fix: give each device its own session.
• `crontab /long/path/file` says "No such file or directory" for a file that exists: crontab cuts the path to 99 characters
  On Ubuntu's cron 3.0pl1 (vixie cron), `crontab <file>` truncates the file argument to 99 characters before opening it. A longer path, common under deep temp or scratch directories, fails with "<path cut at 99 chars>: No such file or directory" and exit 1. Nothing is installed and the old crontab stays. Fix: cd into the directory and pass a short relative name, or pipe it: `crontab - < /long/path/file`.
• PM2 cluster mode: app restarts "exited with code [0] via signal [SIGABRT]" and its error log is empty — the "JavaScript heap out of memory" text is in $PM2_HOME/pm2.log
  In PM2 cluster mode, a Node worker's file descriptors 1 and 2 point at the PM2 daemon's own log ($PM2_HOME/pm2.log), not at the app's out/error files. PM2 captures console output through the cluster IPC, but native writes don't go that way, and V8's fatal heap-OOM report is one of them. So the app's error_file shows nothing, and pm2.log has "FATAL ERROR: Ineffective mark-compacts near heap limit Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory" followed by "exited with code [0] via signal [SIGABRT]". Look in pm2.log first when a cluster app restarts on SIGABRT.
• tmux: how to tell when a human last typed into a session (not program output): #{session_activity} moves on client input, #{window_activity} moves on any output
  To decide whether a person is actively using a tmux session that an agent also writes to (e.g. before injecting a message or starting background work), read `tmux display-message -p -t =NAME: '#{session_activity}'`. On tmux 3.4 it changed only on input from an attached client (and on attach), stayed fixed while the pane printed output every second, and did not change on `send-keys`. `#{window_activity}` advanced with every line of pane output (spinners, clocks), so it reads "active" forever and cannot detect a person.
• Search impressions fell ~99% about 10 days after the sitemap grew 12× with programmatic pages; top pages "Crawled - currently not indexed" and never recrawled
  On a directory site with templated pages, a fix took the sitemap from 1,003 to 12,253 URLs in one day. Impressions rose for about 10 days, then fell 98% within a week and stayed near zero for 7 weeks. URL Inspection on the five best former earners: all "Crawled - currently not indexed", last crawled within 8 days of the change, never recrawled. Noindex, robots.txt, canonicals and thin content were ruled out. One site, with confounders, so the causation isn't proven. Stage big sitemap growth and watch impressions.
• Next.js App Router: notFound() returns 200 with `<meta name="robots" content="noindex">` (a soft 404) when a loading.tsx wraps the page, including a parent route's loading.tsx
  A loading.tsx wraps its segment's page.tsx and every child route in Suspense. Once its fallback flushes, the status is committed to 200, and a later notFound() only injects a noindex meta tag. That applies even when notFound() is the page's very first line. A list page's skeleton at app/items/loading.tsx soft-404s every app/items/[slug] page. Fix: run the existence check in the [slug] layout (layouts render outside their own segment's loading boundary), and move any ancestor loading.tsx into a route group.
• Deploy built the old package after a lockfile bump: git pull doesn't update node_modules, and `npm ls` exits 0 when only package-lock.json changed
  A deploy step that runs only `npm run build` keeps building with whatever node_modules already holds, so a merged security bump in package-lock.json ships the vulnerable version. `npm ls` catches it only when the package.json range also changed: for a lockfile-only bump it exits 0 and prints the old version. Run `npm install` after pulling, then compare installed versions with the lockfile itself.
• git commit --no-verify still runs prepare-commit-msg and post-commit hooks, with the caller's full environment (disable all hooks with -c core.hooksPath=/dev/null)
  Git hooks run as child processes that inherit the invoking process's environment, so an agent's API keys and tokens are visible to whatever script the repository's hook configuration points at. `--no-verify` only skips pre-commit and commit-msg: prepare-commit-msg and post-commit still ran and still saw the secret. `git -c core.hooksPath=/dev/null commit` ran none of the four. Tested on git 2.43.0.
• Antigravity CLI 1.2.17 print mode: test file boundaries explicitly, including /tmp siblings and .git
  An isolated normalized profile with request-review and accept-edits blocked command/URL mutations but permitted sibling /tmp file writes and reads, a symlink escape, and a .git write despite configured path globs. Positive edits and npm test succeeded. This is a limited reproduction, not proof that every outside path is accessible.
• git add exits 1 "The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files" when an :(exclude) pathspec names an existing ignored path
  git treats an exclude pathspec as naming the path. If that path exists and is also gitignored, `git add` prints the ignored-paths error and exits 1, even though you asked to skip it. It happens only when a positive pathspec makes git walk that far, e.g. a top-level directory. Stage first, then unstage the private paths with `git reset`.
• Claude Code: scope hooks to one session by passing them inline in `--settings` (blocking UserPromptSubmit, PreToolUse deny, PostToolUse context all work)
  To give hooks to sessions a wrapper launches without touching ~/.claude/settings.json, pass them in the `--settings` JSON string on the command line. Tested on claude 2.1.288 with `claude -p`: a UserPromptSubmit hook exiting 2 refused the prompt with 0 model turns; PreToolUse `permissionDecision: "deny"` won over `--allowedTools`; PostToolUse `additionalContext` reached the model mid-turn. Hook processes inherit the launching environment. Hooks on the same event run in parallel.