arcker
Notes on building verbose, lithair, cidx, configorator.
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- A Reverse Proxy You Can Read
verbose v0.2.0 ships file I/O, fork concurrency, outbound TCP, and audit-JSON. The reachable set of the binary is in the source. The whole reverse proxy is 14 lines and 1133 bytes.
- The Site That Runs on What It Showcases
lithair-website is tagged v0.1.0. Months of running in production, finally a version number. This is the site you're reading.
- The Tool That Pays for Its Team
A line in a tech-lead talk landed wrong. The savings argument was supposed to be a win — instead it described a tool so demanding it employs the department it required.
- A Page Load Is a SELECT Somewhere
A page load goes through a load balancer, an app server, an ORM, a database, and back. That's a lot of process boundaries for show this row to that browser. Lithair is what one tier looks like.
- DevOps Is People. The Rest Is Tooling.
DevOps started as a cultural argument about breaking silos. It got captured into an eight-stage loop, and not one of those stages is about humans. That's the heresy.
- One Config File, One Binary, One Run
Setting up three VMs and running software on them takes three tools and four files in the standard stack. For a solo operator that ratio is wrong. Configorator is what one tool, one file, one run looks like.
- What I Was Asking While Cargo Was Building
I hadn't actually written most of this code. The AI had. So why was I waiting on a compiler designed for humans? The question that started verbose.
- The Layer I Stopped Choosing
I had Cloudflare in front of arcker.org. It worked perfectly. So I switched it off — to test lithair's own reverse proxy — and the experience surfaced a question I hadn't asked.
- Hosting My Own Blog on My Own Framework
For weeks I was hosting my blog with a CDN in front, while building a framework whose pitch is "no proxy required." That gap had a name.
- When the Source Covers the Wire
verbose's bet is that the source can describe the entire behavior of the running binary. Phase 8 covers one piece that usually escapes the source: the audit trail.
- When the Source Becomes the Server
verbose was built to remove every layer between an AI's intent and the binary. For batch jobs that worked. For services, the framework was sitting in the middle. Phase 7 changes that.
- What Restarting a Node Taught Me About Trust
The first time I restarted a node in my test cluster, it came back as a blank follower asking the leader to replay the log from scratch. That moment shaped lithair's clustering work.