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From the HelloCron blog

Notes on monitoring, reliability, and the failures that don't announce themselves.

July 29, 2026

Twelve free tools for developers

A cron parser, Base64, JSON formatter, URL encoding and eight more. Everything is computed in your browser, so nothing you paste reaches our server.

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June 24, 2026

Silent failures: why no alert is the worst alert

A loud failure page is annoying. A failure that produces no signal at all is the one that costs you a customer, because you find out about it after they do.

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June 2, 2026

Monitor a cron job in 60 seconds

Two curl calls around your existing command, and you get an alert the moment it fails or fails to run at all. Here is the whole setup, start to finish.

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May 12, 2026

Why we built HelloCron

A cron job can fail for months without anyone noticing. That gap between "it should be running" and "we know it stopped" is the whole reason HelloCron exists.

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