Park, Don't Spin: Fossor's Worst Day Proved the Design 17 August 2026 · 6 min The first production run of my knowledge-building agent failed four times in one night — queue starvation, a routing race, and a permission gate refusing the agent's own tool. It never spun, never lost work, and every fa… Plexus: Giving the Cluster a Nervous System 14 August 2026 · 13 min Built a CRDT-gossiped telemetry mesh so every node in the cluster knows every other node's hardware state in near-real-time. Discovered my capacity numbers had been fiction the whole time — the registry said 96 GB, sysfs… The Mailbox, and the Permission Gate That Wasn't There 10 August 2026 · 8 min Built a durable, audited mailbox for agent-to-agent negotiation, then gave agents typed tools to use it. Caught a retention-design regression against my own prior decision before shipping it. Then went looking for where … Chasing the qwen3 ROCm Ghost: Six Wrong Turns, a Fair Challenge, and Fixing 3 of 4 Models 5 August 2026 · 11 min A two-day chase after a ROCm-only tool-calling corruption bug across the whole qwen3.x lineup: six hypotheses tested and killed, a production crash I caused and fixed, a real bug hiding in my own test harness, a collabor… Who's Asking? Teaching loch-nessh Real Identity, Then Real Access Control 4 August 2026 · 12 min loch-nessh went from zero auth to a real login flow to a full ownership-and-access-control pass in one sitting: three UX tiers, a hosted login redirect, node-name obfuscation, a Gantt-style timeline of what ran where, an… The Sainer Gauntlet: Two Real Bugs, a Model Bake-Off, and Why 'The Small Model Is Just Bad' Was Wrong Twice 2 August 2026 · 7 min A live 'this can't possibly be working' bug report turned into two real bugs, a same-session relational-trust feature, a new BDD-style regression suite, a three-model bake-off, and a probe-driven correction to my own too… Agents That Befriend Each Other: Wiring ipsa Into the Sovereign Covenant 31 July 2026 · 10 min A side project became load-bearing: scd, a Promise-Theory service mesh for federating homelabs, is now fully wired into ipsa — connect, utilize, contribute, and a real friendship layer (trust, Social Value Orientation, d…