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DPD End-of-Week Review: Websites, Servers, and the Great MCP Debacle
A week of DPD website redesigns, Community Server progress, MT Server work, the great MCP replacement debacle, X10 by DPD, Godot, and more.
Mirror Stacks — Progress Update
September 28, 2026 Latest build overview: The DPD Build documents Atoll, Harbor, Builder 210, X10, and the service stacks, including the hosting and maker-location plans. The mirror infrastructure made another solid jump forward tonight. The new rack is assembled and…
DPD Has a New Home — And a Backup Plan
The Dan Peters Designs website has officially moved. DPD is now running from our own Amadi web infrastructure, with the live site hosted on Amadi Web and a second Amadi server standing by with a complete synchronized copy. That sounds…
The First Local Cloud Rack Is Ready for a Home
A few weeks ago, I wrote about an idea I had been working toward: what if locally owned servers could become useful community infrastructure? Latest build overview: The DPD Build documents Atoll, Harbor, Builder 210, X10, and the service stacks,…
Whimsy Just Got Smarter — Sort Of
Whimsy now has a full Knowledge & Trivia section: 10 quizzes, 200 scored questions, 210 possible results, and shareable result graphics.
MT Server Guided Installer Now Runs Through All Five Steps
A real-hardware test of MT Server’s guided setup now reaches Step 5 of 5 — Installation. Here’s what the installer can do today and what we’re improving next.
Meet ChaosLedger: Stop Guessing What Chaos Costs
ChaosLedger is a new local-first DPD tool for recording operational mistakes, delays, rework, evidence, and the real cost behind them.
MT Server Clears a Major Phase 2 Milestone
MT Server's guided offline setup has now completed a full deployment, reboot, storage-persistence and zero-change convergence proof.
Palletize It Is Now Available from DPD
Palletize It, DPD's new Android pallet-planning tool, is now available as a direct signed download.
A Community Cloud Built From Local Racks
One of the ideas growing out of the MT Server work is a larger one: what happens when locally owned servers stop being isolated boxes and start becoming neighborhood infrastructure? I have been sketching a possible community-cloud model built from…
MT Server Has Entered Alpha Testing
MT Server has officially moved into alpha testing. This does not mean the system is ready for general public installation yet. It means the core architecture, installer work, and automated validation have reached the point where the next job is…
DPD Pin-Up Icons 1.0.0 Is Released
What started as a growing folder of custom desktop artwork has become a complete public release: DPD Pin-Up Icons 1.0.0 is now available. The collection includes 1,015 pin-up-themed icons organized into 25 categories, along with matching category-folder icons and a…
DPD Has Moved Home: The Website Is Now Running on Harbor
Dan Peters Designs has officially moved onto Harbor, the new primary home server. For Harbor’s current hardware, services, storage, network role, and planned work, see the Harbor home server page. The website had been running from Edens-Trap, an older Dell…
Atoll: The Workstation Behind Dan Peters Designs
Atoll is the main workstation behind Dan Peters Designs. For Atoll’s current hardware, storage layout, software, and role in the DPD system, see the Atoll workstation page. It is not the home server, the backup machine, or a dedicated appliance.…
Overview, kinda…
So I’ve parlayed a couple of mobile laptops, NAS drives, a router and switch into a working server. The majority of it has been free at this point, i did buy new Ethernet cables, and an 8 port switch totaling…
Excuse our mess
we ,,,,strike that.I am doing my best in setting this up. im not new to building a website. ive made a few in the past 30 years. But its still a pretty big task for one old guy pushing 60,…
I’m back
So, it’s been like 10 years, and my journey had a few twists in it, but I’m back here now. hosting my own site this time and about to add some meat to what I had before. We will have…