projects · the platform
The machinery the apps stand on.
None of the other projects carry their own edge security, monitoring, alerting, or theme. They plug into shared machinery — built once, hardened by incident, and documented as the patterns this site is named for. This page is the machinery's own case study.
The edge
Every public request, the same gauntlet
One chain for all apps: a managed CDN + WAF, an encrypted tunnel to the lab, an origin gate that authenticates the CDN itself before any routing runs, and SSO + MFA in front of every application. The LAN gets its own separate, read-only convenience surface.
The rest of the machinery
Boring on purpose
Monitoring on four axes
Alive, correct, drifted, wasteful — per-project smoke tests, deploy and image drift checks, and lifetime-average resource watching, all feeding one weekly heartbeat email.
One notifier
A single shared library owns "send me an email"; every job uses it. Alert plumbing is written once, tested once, rotated once.
One design language
The token layer from the styleguide skins first-party apps, server-rendered dashboards, and third-party tools alike — this site included.
Deploys a person can hold
Git as transport, checkouts as artifacts, drift checks keeping the
simple path honest. This very site deploys by git pull.
The second engineer is a model
An AI pair helps build and run the platform — under the AI-leverage pattern: budgeted keys, git review, and smoke tests that don't care who wrote the change.
Proof
The platform documents itself
The styleguide renders from the live design tokens; the patterns pages carry dated, statused decisions; and the whole site runs on the same machinery it describes.
