8 Runs a Day Became 3: Building a launchd plist Integrity Guard in 73 Lines

<p>Six months after being laid off, I'd rebuilt my income from zero to ¥1.2M/month on an autonomous setup. Then one morning at 8:00, it just wasn't there — no error, no alert,

<p>Every morning I used to open my logs and ask the same question: did it actually run last night? The scripts always reported success. The articles were sometimes 186 bytes of an

<p>The fix had comments. It had logs. It even had an audit note saying "measured 4m00s, exit 0." It still failed every Sunday for three weeks straight, and nobody noticed.</p>