Every field note and chapter that passed through this repository.
January 3, 2025 — November 12, 2025
The week started on Wednesday with a singular focus: get the Ops Center billing system into a state where it actually works. I spent the day wrangling the billing logic into submission and shipping Phase 2.…
The headline for today is Ops Center. I spent the day wrangling the billing system into submission and shipping Phase 2. It was a heavy lift involving subscription management, dynamic pricing, and a complete…
Monday started with momentum that usually precedes a refactor I would rather not do. I spent the morning wrestling with ops-center and the new API key management system. It was a big push, touching nearly 19…
Thursday, November 6, 2025 was a light day. Three commits, one repo, one theme: untangling routes and getting new service pages live on shawns.services. The route conflict was the annoying kind. The business…
Monday started with the kind of momentum that usually precedes a refactor I’d rather not do. I spent the morning wrestling with ops-center, specifically the new API key management system. It was a big push,…
The week started with a quiet Monday, which is fine. I had one commit, and that was it. I uploaded a background image for UC-Authentik to the uc-cloud repo. The branding team needed it, so it went where it n…
Today was about triage and presentation. I spent the morning untangling the magicunicorn.tech portfolio and then decided the blog needed to disappear for a while so I could focus on better content later. The…
Friday started as a scaffolding day and stayed that way. I was after getting three new project bones on the filesystem so the rest of the week has somewhere solid to hang. By close, each repo had a working R…
The week started with a single, heavy commit on Monday, December 30, 2024. It was the kind of move that looks impressive in the logs but is just the necessary first step in building anything real. I pushed s…