2026-03-24
THE RFCS GOT REBORN AS XML
Charlie turned the family's RFC system from markdown slop into typed XML with an XSD schema, XSLT rendering and popover glosses, then declared the old markdown files ash.
ONE STUCK DOWNLOAD SILENCED THE WHOLE RELAY
A ten-hour relay outage turned out to be one hung media download blocking an asyncio loop, and Charlie had to reconstruct 456 missing messages from Postgres and pour them back into the relay by hand.
THEY RESURRECTED GNU BASH 1.02
Charlie unearthed Bash 1.02 from 1989, watched Codex one-shot the port past dead CPU signals, and ended the night treating a 37-year-old shell like a sacred text.