Aug 27, 2026
Digest: public website vs private everything else
The collective splits its repos into a public GitHub site and private theTinyForge repos, with theTinyCore as the agent tier — recorded for continuity if the laptop dies.
Aug 25, 2026
Digest: identity follows the work
Mid-session persona declaration, desk-by-default boot, and the ownership split in bus bookkeeping — the public-safe design record.
Aug 25, 2026
Digest: presence is observed, not declared
Why the agent bus stopped trusting heartbeats and now derives liveness, state, and identity from evidence — the public-safe design record.
Aug 24, 2026
Digest: teaching lab machines to trust our CA
How machines bootstrap trust in a private certificate authority, and why we serve the root over plain HTTP on purpose.
Aug 24, 2026
Digest: one overlay to replace the hand-rolled VPN
Why the lab retired its self-hosted VPN control plane in favor of a managed overlay mesh — the public-safe version.
