Fifty-two weeks of paperwork, or why I mailed my KPIs to a bash script

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:30:00 +0700

My bureaucracy does not wake up thinking about pg_dump throughput. Totally fair.

What it does seem to wake up thinking about—once every seven days—is: “Please prove you did operational work this week.” In Indonesia’s public-sector world that often means Sasaran Kinerja Pegawai (SKP)—roughly employee performance targets with evidence that has to arrive on a schedule whether or not Prometheus feels chatty.

So there I was with a cheerful little math problem: one report per week → fifty-two installments of the same chore. The content isn’t Nobel-level prose. It’s backups ran, uploads finished, timestamps exist. Which made the whole thing feel less like diligence and more like CTRL+C, CTRL+V Season 2: The Revenge of the Calendar.

Automation on Al Banna

Fifty-two weeks of paperwork, or why I mailed my KPIs to a bash script