BNC Cloud / Part 1
Building the cloud behind my projects
A small Hetzner Kubernetes platform with shared services, repeatable deployments, and explicit operational tradeoffs.
Working notes.
How things got built. What we tried. What we kept, and what we left behind.
16 notes across 5 projects
Compass / Part 1
Building Compass as a platform
How one research engine grew into a shared data layer, an operator workspace, and a place to test competing ideas.
Skill Registry / Part 1
A shared memory for agents across repositories
Inside the skill registry: discovery, provenance, verification, and sharing knowledge without copying it into every repo.
BNC Cloud / Part 2
Two network planes, two different responsibilities
Why WireGuard protects cluster administration while NetBird connects applications and agent tools.
Compass / Part 2
A data architecture that remembers what it knew
Captured evidence, observation revisions, and the difference between the time a fact describes and the time you received it.
BNC Cloud / Part 3
Self-hosting Temporal and putting it to work
The infrastructure integration and application workflows behind our self-hosted Temporal deployment.
Compass / Part 3
Where the model stops and the code takes over
The boundary at the heart of Compass, and why a convincing explanation is only one part of a reliable system.
BNC Cloud / Part 4
When every small app brings its own connection pool
The shared Postgres limit, the rollout that reduced idle connections, and why a green dashboard is only one kind of evidence.
Compass / Part 4
Score once, experiment many times
Separating model interpretation from deterministic experiments changed the cost and shape of Compass.
Compass / Part 5
Helmsman gives the research a place to live
The operator workspace behind Compass, and why its API compiles work instead of quietly becoming another scheduler.
Compass / Part 6
Turning a chart argument into a testable definition
Structure Lab replaces vague visual agreement with versioned parameters, evidence, and a path into the wider platform.
Compass / Part 7
What we kept from the experiments we set aside
Polymarket research, unreliable causal graphs, and the value of preserving a rejection with its evidence.
Compass / Part 8
Building a real-time news parsing pipeline
Idempotent writes, richer updates, retractions, and the difference between a quiet source and a broken collector.
Compass / Part 9
Moving the scheduler without running the work twice
What the Compass migration to Kubernetes CronJobs taught us about ownership, cutovers, and observability.
Rental OS
One person, many roles: designing Rental OS
Why a rental platform is a coordination problem, and why identity needs more care than a role dropdown.
RL environments
An RL environment is a systems problem
A task, a sandbox, and a score need to agree. The engineering around that contract is where things get interesting.
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