September 28, 2026 The mirror infrastructure made another solid jump forward tonight. The new rack is assembled and loaded, Mirror Stack 1 remains our working reference stack, and the second mirror stack is now beginning to come online alongside it.…
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…
A few weeks ago, I wrote about an idea I had been working toward: what if locally owned servers could become useful community infrastructure? That idea started with A Community Cloud Built From Local Racks, where I sketched out what…
Whimsy now has a full Knowledge & Trivia section: 10 quizzes, 200 scored questions, 210 possible results, and shareable result graphics.
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.
ChaosLedger is a new local-first DPD tool for recording operational mistakes, delays, rework, evidence, and the real cost behind them.
MT Server's guided offline setup has now completed a full deployment, reboot, storage-persistence and zero-change convergence proof.
Palletize It, DPD's new Android pallet-planning tool, is now available as a direct signed download.
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 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…
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…
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 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.…
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…
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,…
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…