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Notes and write-ups from the Gravey Studios lab.

This Week in the Lab: Character Consistency, and a Render Queue You Can Finally See

September 13, 2026 · Render PipelineInfra

A garment-consistency rule that finally holds across wardrobe changes, and a live "in the darkroom" queue panel for the shared render box.

This Week in the Lab: The Finance Dashboard Gets Honest

September 6, 2026 · FinanceAutomation

The Alpaca P&L reporter got a ground-truth fix, the monthly goal reset from $100 to $20, and the finance dashboard now auto-refreshes every 3 hours from live APIs.

This Week in the Lab: Three Bots, Three Markets, One Dashboard

August 30, 2026 · FinanceAutomation

The automated trading stack goes fully live — Alpaca equities, Kalshi prediction markets, and a crypto carry bot, all running with real dashboards.

This Week in the Lab: Making the Render Farm — and the Trading Bot — Actually Honest

August 23, 2026 · ProjectsInfra

Two stubborn reliability problems fixed and verified: the render farm's crash-loop root cause, and a trading bot whose P&L report was lying to us.

This Week in the Lab: A Second Band, a Bigger Character Pipeline

August 16, 2026 · Projects

Neon Outrigger goes public with "Firewall," and the in-house character pipeline runs its biggest batch yet.

Smoke & Fire: A Pitmaster Hero Saga

August 8, 2026 · Game

Fire up the pit and stake your claim as the neighborhood's pitmaster hero. Playable right in your browser.

Nagios: The Health Layer of the Homelab

August 8, 2026 · Monitoring

How Nagios keeps a single green/red status view over every host and service — and tells us the moment something drops.

NetBox: The Source of Truth for the Lab

August 8, 2026 · Inventory

Why every device, service, and IP address in the lab lives in one structured, queryable catalog — instead of memory and sticky notes.

Deploying Wazuh Across the Homelab

August 8, 2026 · Security & Infra

Why we run Wazuh — the open-source security platform now watching every host in our homelab — and what we actually use it for.


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