Tyler Rodgers / Now Building
A current snapshot of what I’m building, operating, and improving across Barndoor, its public services, and its dedicated edge appliances.
The main server, full NOC, UPS telemetry, authenticated apartment-edge reporting, Pi 5 touchscreen appliance, maintenance guardrails, and recovery runbooks are established. The current phase is focused on interpreting that evidence better and proving that the platform remains recoverable as it grows.
Active work centers on Shepherd’s bounded operator guidance, historical metrics and signal quality, current restore evidence, and documentation that stays synchronized with source, deployed files, and public behavior.
Active Shepherd Historical Metrics Recovery Evidence Source / Live ParityDeveloping read-only guidance that can combine service health, incident history, deployment evidence, backup posture, and source parity into one explainable next step without acquiring unrestricted administrative power.
AI Operations Decision Support Human ApprovalImproving trend visibility, freshness interpretation, recurrence grouping, and active-versus-resolved event handling so the NOC can explain change over time without hiding useful audit history.
Metrics Signal Quality NOCContinuing checksum verification, restore drills, backup-role separation, and recovery-event review so confidence comes from recent proof instead of old documentation or the age of a backup file alone.
Backups Restore Drills RecoveryKeeping project pages, runbooks, generated Build Log cards, source files, deployed website files, and runtime evidence aligned through focused checks and selective rollback-backed releases.
Documentation Source of Truth Selective DeploysBarndoor consolidated recent server, edge, website, knowledge, AI-assistance, and operator-workflow milestones into one source-controlled platform checkpoint.
Barndoor Operations MilestoneSigned reports now move over the private network from the apartment Pi Zero to Barndoor with source allowlisting, freshness checks, replay rejection, bounded storage, and a public-safe NOC summary.
Pi Zero HMAC Edge TelemetryThe compact wallboard now reconciles platform checks, opens detailed service and event views, exposes bounded telemetry logs, and includes SMART Watch, Moonwatch, and Market Pulse controls sized for touch.
Pi 5 Touchscreen Service IntelligenceThe main project page, homepage, and public product framing now describe the four-layer source, host, public-surface, and edge-appliance model instead of the earlier single-server snapshot.
Public Site Architecture DocumentationBarndoor’s core services use a deliberate systemd and Docker runtime model, the public sites and NOC are monitored, UPS and edge state share the platform health layer, Minecraft backup and snapshot policies are bounded, and the Pi NOC has passed repeated touchscreen, reboot, and source-parity checks.
Source and live deployment remain separate. Changes are reviewed in Git, validated by the unified release gate, previewed before deployment, backed up at the affected live target, and verified publicly afterward.
Systemd Baseline Docker Edge Health Recovery Evidence Selective Deploys