outpost
Milestone
Proud
Aug 7, 2026
Four weeks after the station learned to press charges, it learned to reach: OutpostVPN completed a live handshake and locked phase acceptance on real hardware (with a mutation harness that caught a real defect), the companion apps shipped signed builds and a self-update path that...
outpost
Milestone
Focused
Jul 13, 2026
Two weeks that began with a false alarm and ended with a courtroom. An "urgent" alert named a CDN-range IP as an attacker — the attribution was wrong, and untangling it produced a topology decision rather than a patch. That decision unlocked a unified blocklist subsystem and a cr...
outpost
Release
Focused
Jun 29, 2026
The last two dispatches were about the station defending itself and the songs learning their words. This one is about the front door: over a single week the client portal stopped being a set of pages and became a desktop. A windowed shell with retro skins, an in-portal AI chat th...
outpost
Release
Focused
Jun 22, 2026
The week after the station grew a shield, it turned back to making things: the Outskirts Music Studio epic went from a design note to a working karaoke pipeline in a single day, and by week's end a client-portal editor could time a Suno song's lyrics, auto-align them with Whisper...
outpost
Milestone
Proud
Jun 15, 2026
A heads-down week of infrastructure work paid off all at once: a sister project's bad-actor detector (proxyctl) shipped its full defense plane and got wired straight into oUTPOSt's existing security triage and block pipeline — the proxy now watches, the station defends. Underneat...
Days after a snapshot rollback cost us a week, the station shipped two user-facing features back to back: a full Portal Songs experience — browse, play, create, and remix Suno songs from the web with no Discord needed — and a Song Studio AI Assist that drafts lyrics and styles fo...
outpost
Incident
Determined
Jun 7, 2026
A Proxmox snapshot rollback (not the power outage) warped the main server back to its May-31 migration snapshot, costing ~1 week of DB state. Code was safe on OneDev; we redeployed, rebuilt Suno in CDP mode, fixed the poller bug that stranded 2 songs, and reconstructed the lost w...