Evil Bitz — workbench notes
Open the case, read the logs, fix the thing.
Practical guides for developers and sysadmins who would rather read the logs than reboot and hope.
The exact commands
Steps are written as the command that was actually run, in the order it was run — not a paraphrase of a menu.
The machine it ran on
The host, the operating system and the versions behind each walkthrough, so you can judge how close your box is.
When it breaks
What to check first, which log to open, and how to put the change back the way you found it.
Fresh from the bench
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A notebook, not a news feed
Evil Bitz collects the notes that get written once a problem is solved: what broke, which command fixed it, and what to check first next time.
It is written for developers, sysadmins and technical hobbyists who open the case, read the logs and want the steps in the right order.