The Backstory Is Live. Tomorrow, Y'all Get the Mess as It Happens.
The retrospective is caught up. From here forward, Project Ceylon becomes a real-time record of the work, wrong turns, breakthroughs, and whatever happens next.
Postmortem
52, 53, and Other Numbers That Ruin Your Evening
With the scheduler starvation bug fixed, the next client finally ran — and immediately failed for a much dumber reason. Shared logic assumed channel 52. It was actually…
The RNG Bug That Wasn't an RNG Bug
Two SecureRandom client tests were failing. Every instinct said the bug was in the random-number code. It wasn't. It was a busy-spinning restart starving lower-priority…
Why Project Nu-Day Failed
"Failed" doesn't mean nothing worked. It means the project's boundaries stopped making sense. Building a real media workstation meant building an entire operating…