post({
by: Jonas Whitlock, on: "2026-10-11", in: "WordPress",
tags: ["dark-mode", "on-call"],
// Passing data in beats making every partial go and fetch it.
}),
// hashtag / tag
#on-call
Notes written shortly after the pager went off.
16
posts
tags.ts
// tags.ts: every tag on nightshift.dev
export const on-call = tag("Notes written shortly after the pager went off.");
References to on-call
16 posts use this tag, 16 on this pagepost({
by: Mara Voss, on: "2025-09-28", in: "WordPress",
// Filter priority is the difference between code and a pile of paragraph tags.
}),
post({
title:
"Filters All the Way Down"
,by: Priya Hale, on: "2025-01-06", in: "WordPress",
tags: ["ci", "on-call", "type-guards"],
// Following one value through six callbacks to find the one that changed it.
}),
post({
title:
"What the Status Bar Is For"
,by: Mara Voss, on: "2026-06-23", in: "Design Systems",
tags: ["lighthouse", "on-call"],
// Showing state where people already look, instead of inventing a new place.
}),
post({
title:
"Three Ways to Fold a Long List"
,by: Odette Lang, on: "2026-03-08", in: "Accessibility",
tags: ["ci", "on-call", "playwright", "transients"],
// Details elements, a little script and the one that broke keyboard users.
}),
post({
by: Mara Voss, on: "2024-08-20", in: "Accessibility",
tags: ["hooks", "incidents", "on-call", "shell", "tailwind"],
// The fix itself took four lines. Finding out where those four lines belonged took most of a week, including one...
}),
post({
title:
"Why the Linter Stays On"
,by: Odette Lang, on: "2025-11-08", in: "Tooling",
tags: ["nginx", "on-call", "playwright"],
// We now write a short note after every incident, and the rule is that it has to be useful to...
}),
post({
title:
"Nonces on Cached Pages"
,by: Tomasz Reyes, on: "2024-12-11", in: "Tooling",
tags: ["linting", "on-call", "rebase", "vite", "web-vitals"],
// We now write a short note after every incident, and the rule is that it has to be useful to...
}),
post({
title:
"Types That Pay Rent"
,by: Ilya Kessler, on: "2024-10-11", in: "Tooling",
tags: ["lighthouse", "nginx", "on-call", "shell"],
// We had been treating this as a small problem for about a year. It only ever appeared under load, it...
}),
post({
title:
"An Nginx Config We Can Explain"
,by: Tomasz Reyes, on: "2025-09-03", in: "DevOps",
tags: ["on-call", "tailwind", "templates", "tokens"],
// Do the rename in its own commit. It feels like extra ceremony right up until someone tries to find out...
}),
post({
by: Odette Lang, on: "2024-11-30", in: "DevOps",
tags: ["deploys", "on-call"],
// The review comment that stuck with me was a question: what happens if this runs twice? It had not occurred...
}),
post({
by: Mara Voss, on: "2024-12-09", in: "Performance",
tags: ["migrations", "on-call"],
// We had been treating this as a small problem for about a year. It only ever appeared under load, it...
}),
post({
title:
"We Measured the Hero Image"
,by: Odette Lang, on: "2024-10-10", in: "Performance",
tags: ["caching", "generics", "hooks", "on-call", "type-guards"],
// It was fine. The third-party script next to it was not.
}),
post({
by: Priya Hale, on: "2024-05-13", in: "Field Notes",
tags: ["caching", "migrations", "on-call"],
// An hour-by-hour account of a very small outage.
}),
post({
by: Tomasz Reyes, on: "2024-04-28", in: "Field Notes",
tags: ["composer", "indexes", "on-call", "vite"],
// There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
}),
post({
title:
"Migrations That Finish"
,by: Mara Voss, on: "2024-04-06", in: "Databases",
tags: ["on-call", "sql", "tailwind", "templates", "tokens"],
// Batching a table rewrite so nobody has to stay up for it.
}),
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export const related = ["caching", "tailwind", "lighthouse"];