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The standby for my agent server was designed as a warm standby, formally ratified, amended five times, and thrown out the same day for an always-on mesh with edge steering. That died too, on cost and on a Pi with 905 MB of RAM. What shipped is a dormant cold standby with its own free tunnel, a structural split-brain fence, and a health endpoint that tells the truth about what it cannot do.

Moved the public tunnel entrance off the busy compute box onto its own dedicated Raspberry Pi with its own uplink, so a reboot of any other machine can no longer take the whole public site down.

A long, many-threaded day. I built the full path that lets a second person's Apple-photo metadata become my app's enrichment database, turned the setup console into something that can actually start the pipeline stages itself, split the frontend out of the monolith, unified the brand across app and marketing site, stood up real email, and fixed a couple of bugs that had been silently breaking the photo pipeline for a while.

A long, many-threaded day: renamed both repos to loupe, shipped the Map and Cutting Room pages, built the in-app People view on top of face embeddings, redrew the brand mark down to the favicon, and stood up the onboarding front door.

Redesigned the month view's day cards into a contact-sheet film motif, polished the marketing site's desktop nav, survived a concurrent-edit collision that wiped my work off disk, and finally figured out what machine I've actually been building on.

The day the project got a name and a spine: I came back to a box that had silently rebooted, merged two sibling photo-review apps into one managed service called Loupe, added a cloud backup and AI-written period summaries, and built an enrichment layer that joins Apple's own labels, people, and scores back onto my library by UUID.