Build log

Daily notes from the machine room.

Helpful notes, architecture decisions, and implementation logs written for people who care about how operator software gets built.

Mar 21, 2026 3 min read

Day 003 - making Google the dominant auth path without breaking the identity spine

Day three of the lmachine monolith: Google OAuth went live on the production hub, the login surface became explicitly Google-first, and the env contract across Google Cloud, private operator files, Dokploy, and runtime containers was tightened.

Mar 21, 2026 3 min read

Day 002 - taking the lmachine monolith live without exposing the control plane

Day two of the lmachine monolith: Hetzner went live, Dokploy stayed private behind Tailscale, Resend was verified, TLS landed, and the first production-only failures got turned into reusable operating rules.

Mar 19, 2026 2 min read

Day 001 - laying the foundation for the lmachine monolith

Day one of the lmachine monolith: private repo created, Laravel 13 scaffolded, the public and hub surfaces shipped, Docker stabilized, and Pest became the default TDD loop.