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Tanvi Ships Anyway · Saturday, 1 August 2026 · Ahhhh!
August 2026
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On-call beeper that shrieks at 4:57 (5)
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The file everyone reads after a crash (3)
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'___, man!' (groan as the phone lights up again) (2)
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Send out, as troops or new code (6)
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Rubber-stamp reply to 'Can I ship this before the weekend?' (3)
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Like a siren, unlike a red dashboard (5)
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Show-and-tell of a feature that worked on someone's laptop (4)
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Run out of steam, like the incident call at hour three (4)
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A retreat to the last version that worked, or a fuel-price climbdown (8)
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Gun, as a scooter's engine at the Silk Board signal (3)
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'___ far, ___ good,' said at 4:56 (2)
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You can't make them without breaking a few eggs, says whoever shipped at 4:55 (9)
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Pillion ___ (5)
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Where a launch countdown usually begins (3)
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Google-built programming language, or the word given at 4:54 (2)
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Put on a pedestal (6)
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What a service exposes so other programs can call it, briefly (3)
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Fix, before anyone is allowed to go home (6)
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SysAdmin Appreciation Day's weekday, and a famously bad one for pushing code (6)
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'It's not ___. There's no way it's ___. It was ___.' (sysadmin haiku) (3)
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Settle, as the bill for the emergency pizzas (3)
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Dumbstruck, like interns watching a one-command recovery (4)
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Sheeran who sang 'Perfect', which the release was not (2)
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Closed, like an incident, or mapped to an IP address, like a domain name (8)
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Short poem that longs to be sung (5)
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Force 8 on the Beaufort scale (4)
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Lakers' city, briefly (2)
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What the status page calls 'degraded performance' once everyone's honest (6)
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Waiter, or the box whose graphs just turned red (6)
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Floating zoos, like Noah's (4)
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Tanvi's ___, briefly: ship first, apologise in the postmortem (2)
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'What went ___?' (the war room's first question) (5)
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Dash that's longer than an en (2)
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They answer for a service when it falls over (6)
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Furious, like someone whose Saturday plans just evaporated (5)
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Loopy fabric used for towels (5)
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Neem or banyan, or the shape of the internet's naming system (4)
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Her old runbook stood her in good ___ (5)
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Brockovich played by Julia Roberts (4)
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What a meddler sticks in, uninvited (3)
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Exec who drops into the call just to ask for an ETA, briefly (2)
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Raspberry ___, the credit-card-sized computer (2)