How things break

These sources look closely at failure. Some trace one bug, and some describe slow decay across a system. The useful part is usually the mechanism.

Part of Fixities. 11 sources from 7 subjects. A source can carry several themes. These tags are this wiki's own reading, not claims the sources make.

Hunting a 16-year-old SQLite bug with TLA+: is dqlite affected?

Marco Manino and Alberto Carretero, dqlite team at Canonical. From Checkable specs for coding agents.

A Canonical post that models a SQLite bug in TLA+ to test dqlite.

Not stated (SQLite project documentation). From Databases and storage.

An SQLite documentation page listing the known ways a database file can become corrupt.

Alex Chan, Tailscale. From Databases and storage.

A Tailscale engineer traces months of database corruption to an SQLite bug.

A blog post arguing that AI agents are well suited to monitoring production systems.

Dan Jones, Alexandra Godoi and Grant Bourzikas, Cloudflare. From Harnesses and agent loops.

A Cloudflare post on its multi-stage harness for finding and triaging code vulnerabilities.

Curiositry (The Autodidacts). From Mind, attention and practice.

An essay of practical tips on troubleshooting, treated as a skill that applies across fields.

An essay arguing that AI piles up incompatible software models faster than people fix them.

Bob, Application Security Engineer, Safeguard.sh. From Software tools and craft.

A security vendor's blog post weighs the security trade-offs of the Bun JavaScript runtime.

A personal essay argues that software quality is everyone's job.

A maintainer of the Fresh editor describes the cost of many Linux packaging channels.

Daniel Stanica (founder of Monetize Better and Competico agency). From Writing and the small web.

A study of what happened to the search traffic of 100 once-celebrated money-making blogs.