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- Sep 13, 2026 Dressing the ship One of the businesses I build for wanted a way to quickly generate glossy social media images without opening a separate design tool every time: the right size and shape for IG or FB with all their very particular bells and whistles. You know, the exact thing graphic artist use templates in Photoshop for. That's the thing though... once your style and branding is locked in, most of the time you're only making minor tweaks and changing the source image - so what if they could have those templates ready to go in their CMS where the content copy is done, and social media image become 'swap image, update title, go.'? infrastructure
- 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
- Sep 5, 2026 Teaching others, one morsel at a time I've been working on another project for bite-sized learning with the aim of teaching 'anyone anything' using small questions, used in various ways to bring meaning and context to knowledge they're imparting. There's a few patterns to teaching this way, like using the same concept four or five times across a course and never ask identical questions. Beyond the broad(side) stroke concept is the app mechanics: The mission design, the spaced-review engine that decides when you've actually got something, the sync that never invents your history, and the consent model sitting under class/family reporting. infrastructure
- Sep 4, 2026 Two gates and a fence bosun-x shows one person everything. Every project, every server, every private note. But I also build things for other people, and they would like to see how it is going without me mailing them a screenshot. Today's work is the mechanism for that. A client login that can only ever reach the projects done for them, enforced in one function, behind a build rule that fails if any other code reads the data directly. control · infrastructure
- Aug 31, 2026 What changed since you last played Steam already shows a combined news feed for the games you own, but you cannot search or filter it and the ordering barely makes sense. Here is the feed I built for Playtopia.com.au instead, with the same official posts sorted properly, made searchable and filterable, and everything published since you last played each game marked. 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