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- Sep 30, 2026 The key to the lifeboat was on the ship A few weeks ago, in Launching the lifeboat, I wrote that every backup in the fleet now gets restored for real once a week, and that the keys and env files, saved nowhere before, now go off the box nightly, encrypted. Both of those are still true. This week the content planner joined the fleet, and… infrastructure
- Sep 12, 2026 Seaworthy enough to launch The restore system finally got the part that matters: a button that reaches into a live database or folder and puts a named backup back, with the undo taken automatically before it touches anything. Once that stopped being a hope and started being a mechanism, the project itself was steady enough for the other thing that had been sitting on the list: a real version number, and a container someone other than me can pull. infrastructure · control
- Sep 2, 2026 Fitting out a home dockyard A start-to-finish walk through the setup I use to build things with an AI agent at home — the laptop you type on, an old laptop turned into an always-on server, where the projects and their state actually live, the plain-text control layer that keeps a dozen of them straight, and how it all joins into one private network once a project outgrows the house. Every term you might not know is a hover away. workstation · infrastructure · control
- Sep 1, 2026 A lifeboat for every hull Every project I run has a git remote, so the code survives a dead machine. The databases, uploaded files and secrets do not. This is the backup system I built into bosun-x in a day. bosun-x owns the config; a separate agent holds the credentials and does the dumps; the sensitive one is encrypted; and one screen shows whether every project has a current copy off the box. infrastructure · control