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TacitSoft engineering stories

Engineering stories from the systems we actually run.

I’m writing down the useful parts: the dispatches that went sideways, the infrastructure that held, the products we dogfood, and the operating decisions that changed what we built next.

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Story lanes

One operating system, several proving grounds

Agentic systems

tsctl dispatch, multi-agent work, and the control planes around it.

Dagobah & infrastructure

Kubernetes, IaC, DevOps, and the uncomfortable production lessons.

Deployable AWS products

AMIs, build systems, and infrastructure that has to leave the lab.

TurnstileOps

Redacted customer-like stories from building an operating business in public.

TSWM dogfooding

The desktop runtime, open-source ergonomics, and living with our own tools.

AI-native Linux

A from-scratch distribution build log—decisions, dead ends, and working artifacts.