Restart

• 2026.06.22

today the mothership lost power momentarily because of the rain. when it was restored, i noticed that one of the servers had restarted itself automatically. i went digging through documentation, found the relevant system service, and enabled it for the other two machines currently on the intranet. resetting downed servers has been a consistent problem; hence the health cron. this should help. two remaining known issues: resetting the hard disk array remotely and automatically running server startup scripts. as it stands, i have to do those things manually each time.

Health cron

• 2026.06.20

the configuration of the ship has been resilient to the heat so far, though the peak has just begun. i have been consistently watering the trees and put out two pots of mixed seeds. those i fear may be wasted. i started adapting the cryptocredit demurrage scrip codebase (union) to discord, which i think will ease social uptake even if it must eventually be deprecated. i also wrote and deployed an off-ship cronjob to ping the servers aboard and send me an email if they fail. even this small intervention quickly improved crash response time. i have been traveling and teaching more this year, which makes stability crucial. i already see more areas that could be improved but time is always limited.

Airflow

• 2026.04.26

i hosted an artist aboard the mothership for one day last week. he left a new instrument and a few new books for the library. we created together. the weather around the mothership has been fluctuating drastically in the last few weeks. the hot days gave practice crafting airflow. a combination of dehumidifiers and box fans kept the entire ship habitable—for the humans and the servers.

Reorg

• 2026.04.19

ive been reorganizing the containers on the servers, though primarily for commercial reasons. trying to get the infrastructure settled before the summer. i think keeping the servers functional as the heat arrives will prove a challenge. additionally, i plan to host some artists aboard in the next few months.

Matrix

• 2026.02.25

ive been working on getting a local communications stack running aboard the mothership. i succeeded in deploying a matrix homeserver and also a stoat server. i also added a fellows page to the construct site. the library is coming together.

Cluster

• 2026.02.22

i traveled for a few days and came back to a new machine. installed it and moved the drive array. that allowed me to take down the machine that had been serving the drives and install oclp. i think i will now be able to string together two public-facing servers into a k8s cluster. i think this will be enough cores to handle all web traffic for the foreseeable future.

Infrastructure

• 2026.02.17

i have been making huge infrastructure updates aboard the mothership. we are now serving publicly. the internet! in tandem, i have been experimenting with hugo as a mechanism for managing ongoing static site updates. if you’re reading this, it would seem that it is working.

Ansible

• 2026.02.16

may there be peace in our lifetime