March 23, 2017
Muscle Memory It's really a bitch. It does have the consequence of producing some very bad results. Working hard to get something done quickly to solve a problem that you aren't familiar with then finding the solution then putting that solution in place where you use muscle memory instead of thinking through the actual issue. Here's what happened. Man was I perplexed and when I discovered what I'd actually done was a pissed at myself. My main website is self hosted. I use letsencrypt to provide the certificates. Every so often you get a message that the certificate is out of date and needs to be renewed. I did this by creating a script that runs via a cronjob off the root account every 2.5 months. One script triggers as…