Well, that was a week.
Some people finish their workday and relax. Apparently, I finish mine and start arguing with servers, AI assistants, and software that insists it knows what I meant better than I do.
The DPD Website
I’ve been rethinking how the whole place looks. Less generic website, more actual creative workshop—layered artwork, a little retro-futurism, and pages where the artwork frames the writing instead of replacing it.
The design isn’t finished, but the direction is finally starting to feel like DPD.
The Community Server
This is turning into a real little corner of the internet, with games, creative tools, a knowledge library, a welcome page, and work on the bulletin board and calendar.
Some updates are live; others still need testing before I let them loose.
We also saw a ridiculous traffic spike: more than 150,000 HTTP requests in one day. That’s requests, not 150,000 people—and automated crawlers look like part of the story.
Apparently the robots discovered the library and forgot to knock. We’ll be working on keeping them from hammering a small, self-hosted server.
MT Server
The bigger long-term project is still the same: an affordable, local-first, offline-capable server that ordinary people can use without renting their own digital lives back every month.
We’re keeping the focus on reliable installs, backups, restores, usable apps, and doing the unglamorous work that makes something trustworthy.
It’s not ready to call finished yet, and I don’t intend to pretend otherwise.
The Great MCP Debacle
I wanted to replace a paid remote-management service with my own tools so I can work across the computers without cloud quotas and payment drama.
Simple, right?
Ha.
We made genuine progress with a shared Obsidian “brain,” our self-hosted Amadi Toolkit, secure fleet diagnostics, and a working Kali Linux security-tool connection.
We also discovered that “has an MCP” and “can actually manage the whole computer” are two very different things.
The replacement is underway, not done. I may now have more connection methods than reasonable people have kitchen utensils.
And All the Other Stuff
The internal AI-company project now has a name and a look: X10 by DPD.
Its writing workspace is taking shape, with real backend-agent experiments continuing behind the scenes. There’s still a fair amount of work before the whole team can actually move into their digital offices.
We’re also building a local Godot learning workflow and sketching out small games—including The Neighborhood Dogspiracy, featuring Murphy, a blue heeler with a neighborhood full of secrets to uncover.
Between that, the computer racks, the hardware experiments, and the endless collection of side projects, there’s rarely a shortage of something to work on.
So, How Did the Week Go?
No, everything didn’t get finished.
But we built things, fixed things, found problems before shipping them, and learned which tools actually work versus which ones just look impressive in a demo.
That’s progress.
Messy, noisy, sometimes profanity-assisted progress.
And despite the occasional urge to throw a computer out the window, I’m still having a hell of a lot of fun building all this.
More to come from Dan Peters Designs.
Check out the Community Server and have a great weekend, everybody!