Today

Last night I noticed that the posts I wrote on Monday and Tuesday had disappeared. I had watched them upload successfully before closing the editor, so where had they gone? At first I trusted my script and suspected the unreliable Wi-Fi. It often freezes during an upload, and I had grown used to it because it had not seemed to affect my main work. That casual attitude may have helped the problem grow.

I spent most of today checking the code and looking for the files. I did not find them at first, though I fixed some known bugs. I decided to back up posts immediately when I publish them, so the next surprise causes less damage.

Last night I also walked eight kilometers to keep a promise to myself. I had a clear destination, but the route was full of things worth noticing: a stall, a shop I had missed before, a person. I sometimes stopped to look and then remembered I needed to keep going. The road bent away from the direct route more than once, and some stretches were narrow, with e-bikes and cars rushing past. Yet I reached the place I had set out for. With many things on my mind, that one destination kept me moving.

As I was finishing this post, I thought of another place to look for the missing articles: GitHub’s commit history. There they were. Their titles and dates had become tangled together, leaving the files in a strange mixed-up form. I do not yet understand exactly how the script produced it, but I checked and fixed what I could. After nearly four hours of work, I was hungry and worn out. Still, the posts are back and the problem is more orderly now.