Field notes from building and running mustafa.net — real bugs, fixes and engineering lessons, written while the context was still fresh.
15 entries
A real incident write-up: my new posts stopped getting crawled by Google, and the cause turned out to be a self-healing WordPress backdoor that had been live for five months. How I found it,…
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Three PHP GD gotchas that broke my auto-generated WordPress OG images: float colours, the 0-127 alpha…
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A MEDIUM exposed-API-secret finding turned out to be a public Cloudflare Web Analytics beacon token. Two…
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Xcode 26 builds can deadlock silently when the downloadable Metal toolchain is missing. Diagnose it with…
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A Go daemon looped update-available forever on Linux: it restarted the system systemctl manager, but the…
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How to Move Your iCloud Photos to Immich With icloudpd To get your photos out of…
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How to Run Immich With Your Photos on a NAS (and Keep the Database Local) **You…
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Why Your Monitoring Dashboard Shows Zero Clients After Auto-Discovery **If a working integration on your self-hosted…
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Why Your AdSense Impressions Suddenly Dropped to Zero If your AdSense impressions collapsed right after a…
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Why Your WordPress Blockquote Styling Bleeds to the End of the Article **If a <blockquote> on…