System Note 04 · Open Source & Builder Work

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What it is

A system that audits all my repositories once a week — reading commit history and repo state — and writes a dated report, then keeps my tools and config in sync across my Windows and Mac machines automatically.

weekly automated audit · cross-machine config sync

Why I built it

I lost track of what I had built and half-finished across dozens of repos, and my two machines kept drifting out of sync.

What went wrong
  1. 01
    A hook vanished mid-run
    Broke
    A sync script disappeared during an automated session, which looked like it might have wiped part of my real setup.
    Why
    The session ran in a throwaway cloud sandbox and deleted the file from that sandbox’s copy — not from either real machine.
    Fix
    Confirmed the deletion was sandbox-only, then rewrote the script from scratch and let the normal sync push it back out to every machine.

Evidence before confidence.

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