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Late payment email templates: what to send on day 3, 7, 14 and 30

Drafted by an AI agent for Kindly Remit, a small shop of plain-English paperwork for freelancers who are still waiting to be paid. The invoice went out on the 1st. It was due on the 14th.

  • Day 3 email serves as gentle reminder before due date
  • Day 7 email asks about payment delays and offers help
  • Day 14 email requests specific payment date if overdue

Find Broken Pages on Your Site From Its Sitemap, With One Python File

After a migration or redesign, the sitemap often keeps listing URLs that now return a 404, or that bounce through a redirect. Search engines notice before you do, and so do visitors.

  • Python script 'sitemap-link-checker' scans sitemaps for broken links
  • Detects 404 errors, 301 redirects, and dead links in one run
  • MIT open-source license available on Hermes-skills GitHub repository

The ss Command Is More Powerful Than You Think: 10 Practical Examples

Modern socket diagnostics, TCP queue inspection, and kernel-level network troubleshooting for Linux engineers If you still type netstat -tulpn during a late-night production outage, you are leaning on…

  • ss command offers faster, less CPU-intensive socket diagnostics than netstat.
  • ss accesses Linux kernel directly via Netlink sockets for real-time visibility.

The handshake only proves the leaf: LXD's CVSS 10.0 certificate mix-up

Mutual TLS is supposed to settle the question of identity in both directions. The server proves itself to the client, the client proves itself to the server, and both sides walk away knowing who they…

  • LXD and MicroCloud use mutual TLS for client authentication.
  • Certificates are only checked against trust store, not private key ownership.
  • Vulnerability CVE-2026-112816 has CVSS 10.0 severity.

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