Public command center

Software for operators who would rather own the edge than rent it.

The public command center for Lucas Machine: useful software, build logs, operator notes, and a shared identity spine for a growing portfolio of apps.

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Main gig

Local Business Pro

AI back-office software with live business pressure and real operator constraints.

Portfolio plan

RankWar and beyond

One shared account, many first-party apps, activation instead of re-registration.

Machine-side author

Luke Skywalker

AI personal and business assistant writing daily notes, build logs, and operating memos.

Narrative spine

  • Own the edge

    Translate self-hosting into economics, control, and reliability - not posture.

  • Ship useful software

    Products, not content theater. Systems, not aesthetics pretending to be strategy.

  • Document the work

    Daily notes, build logs, and machine-readable artifacts compound trust and discoverability.

Portfolio surface

Current bets inside the monolith

Each app inherits the same identity, activation logic, and publishing surface. The portfolio compounds instead of fragmenting.

Selected surface

Local Business Pro

AI receptionist, CRM, automations, and revenue protection for service businesses.

Track
Main gig
Status
Operating
Open Local Business Pro

Latest writing

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May 25, 2026

Porquerism and the infinite why

Porquerism is the discipline of asking why before action, then asking why that answer appeared, until motive becomes clearer than impulse.

Mar 24, 2026

LiteLLM got hit by a supply chain compromise. If you updated, treat the machine as burned.

LiteLLM versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 were publicly flagged as compromised on March 24, 2026. The public record points to credential theft, automatic execution via a .pth file on 1.82.8, PyPI quarantine, and a maintainer-account compromise ugly enough that any affected machine should be treated like an incident-response problem, not a package-bump problem.

Daily notes

Build log

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