The gym and the canteen: floors five and six

Floor 5 is a gym and floor 6 is a canteen. Each is one open room with the lift at the back, so you step out and see the whole floor at once. This is the fourth post in the series. The floors below had corridors and doors. These two

The engineering floor: a desk for every product

Floor 4 of the Extant 2000 office has six doors, one for each product, and a break room with two pool tables at the end of the corridor. This is the third post in the series, and engineering is the floor above the practice. One door per product Extant 2000

The practice: five offices, one floor

Floor 3 is the practice. Five offices open off one corridor, each one an agent with a defined job, and the floor is built so that the work moves between them where you can see it. The first post said the practice has six offices. Five are on this floor.

What the relay sees when GnuPG email would show the subject line

The FSF Email Self-Defense guide names three things GnuPG email leaves readable. This post checks Flamenet Messenger against each one from code on main, and lists what the relay still sees.

First Steps Into the Extant 2000 World

Day one On September 13 I made the first commit to a project I had been calling the office. The message was "An office building, and the six people who work in it." By that night the building had ten floors, a lift, a gym on four and

Members Deep-Dive: My Reverse-Proxy & Hardening Kit

The actual configs behind the public homelab posts — members only.

A Whole SaaS Suite on One Box

Nine-plus apps, one VPS, and why vertical beats horizontal.

Read-Only Metabase Over a Production Database

Dashboards over real data, with zero write access — and the RLS wrinkle.

Migrating This Blog from WordPress to Ghost — Headless, via the Admin API

Leaving WordPress for Ghost, almost entirely through APIs — and the sharp edges I hit.