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The Night Watch.
The full engineering breakdown behind the note Five Weeks Dark. I Built a Night Watch. A five week outage, the power settings that caused it, a Raspberry Pi flashed headless with no monitor ever attached, nine monitors on a sixty second heartbeat, a private network triage layer, and bot alerting. Written for engineers. No keys, no addresses, no personal data. Just the architecture.
Inside, six pages:
The incident chain and why it went unseen · Power and access hardening on macOS · Choosing a watchdog outside the blast radius · The headless flash, start to finish · Boot partition recovery when remote access is missing · The container and the nine monitor board · The private network ping as a triage layer · Certificate expiry as a free monitor · Bot alerting and the three wiring gotchas · Wake on LAN as remote hands · Field notes that cost real time · Failure modes, layers, and what is queued next.
The incident chain and why it went unseen · Power and access hardening on macOS · Choosing a watchdog outside the blast radius · The headless flash, start to finish · Boot partition recovery when remote access is missing · The container and the nine monitor board · The private network ping as a triage layer · Certificate expiry as a free monitor · Bot alerting and the three wiring gotchas · Wake on LAN as remote hands · Field notes that cost real time · Failure modes, layers, and what is queued next.
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