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- Oct 2, 2026 A bell on the quarterdeck At five past three on a Friday afternoon, the VPS that runs two of my production apps hit 94.8% disk. A cold backup was staging Docker images on it and the images were big. There was about 3 GB left before databases start refusing writes, and nobody knew, least of all me, because I was reading… control
- Sep 6, 2026 The visitor's gallery I run my projects out of bosun-x, and not all of them under the same name. One of those names is a business site I take client work through, and a client there wanted to see where their projects were up to. So they have a login now, to the part of bosun-x that's theirs, their projects, the tasks I've shared, the ideas they've brought me, a thread to talk in. Same bosun-x I use, filtered down and wearing that site's skin. There was no second system to build. control · infrastructure
- Aug 30, 2026 The chart room How I keep twenty-odd projects, five machines, and two AI agents in sync from a single dashboard built entirely out of plain Markdown and YAML files. The folder layout, why every status check is recomputed live instead of stored, and the plain-text handoff format that lets two agents continue each other's work. control · standards