When every summer storm is a high-severity alert
A safety-monitoring side project I run paged me at 09:00 with "dangerous weather conditions near you. Conditions: Thunderstorm." It was a routine summer…
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5 posts tagged alerts.
Moderate risk alert at midnight, awake at the desk
A side-project safety app generated a moderate-severity risk alert for me at 00:28 local time. I was at my desk, awake, trading messages with two…
Read →Replacing a binary threshold cliff with a one-hour ramp
The inactivity-monitor cron on a side-project safety app was paging me at 7:01 AM, every morning, with "you haven't checked in." I was asleep. The cause…
Read →A risk email every fifteen minutes about nothing
The risk-monitor cron on a side project I run was emailing me every 15 minutes with "risk factor appeared" or "risk factor resolved" for low-severity…
Read →Sensor Offline alerts while traveling, twice
A safety app I run pinged me every hour with "Sensor Offline — no data from IFTTT in the last 24 hours" while I was on a trip. That sensor is the motion…
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