What I am actively working on.
Building this site into a platform
This domain is being built out from a static landing page into a full platform — a learning management system, an online resume, and registration for the holiday tech camps I run. It is being done in deliberate phases, with the unglamorous work first.
Done
- Encrypted off-cluster backups, with a restore drill that has been performed and verified. Built first, before any data existed that would be painful to lose.
- The root domain moved to WordPress, using runtime configuration rather than database surgery so the change could be reverted with a single command.
- Resource headroom raised across the application and database tiers, sized against measured usage rather than guesswork.
In progress
- Building out this site’s content and structure.
Next
- A learning platform, starting with free courses.
- Transactional email with proper SPF, DKIM and DMARC — because receipts landing in spam is a support problem, not a technical curiosity.
- Registration and payment for the holiday tech camps, with per-class capacity limits.
- A second, genuinely off-site backup repository. The current one protects against node and disk failure, but not against losing the building.
This page is updated as the work moves. Inspired by the /now page convention.