#PuTTY / plink
Silent Overwrites on Upload: Three File Copying Traps
Upload two files with the same name together, and the second silently overwrites the first. No error, no failing exit code, and every page still returns 200. The English page just becomes a Thai page. These are three traps that let file copying cause damage without any warning.
Automating Remote Windows Tasks with SSH + Task Scheduler
Move heavy workloads to a more powerful machine over SSH, then automate them with schtasks — with pitfalls that cost me real time, from landing in PowerShell 5 instead of bash over ssh, to backslashes getting swallowed when writing .bat files, to file transfers hanging until I switched to plink
Create .ppk Files for plink/pscp on Windows Without Opening puttygen
puttygen.exe on Windows is GUI-only and cannot batch-convert OpenSSH to .ppk (it returns unrecognised option) — this article writes PPK v3 files directly with Python, including the hard-to-find HMAC-SHA-256 MAC formula, ready to use with plink/pscp/WinSCP.