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Small cream-coloured photos flying from a distant house toward a nearby house with its door ajar, under an indigo sky watched over by a glowing sentinel

Old diarySeptember 10, 2026

The photos that came after

Twenty-four hours after the switch, at 10:08, the sentinel went off on its own to fetch what had been uploaded to the origin while the DNS was propagating: 478 files, three more properties. Eighteen seconds, exit code zero, nobody at the screen. And a flaw of my own, found while reading yesterday's log.

A clock with its hand at thirty-one seconds, arrows moving from an old server to a new one, and a row of green lights

Old diarySeptember 9, 2026

Thirty-one seconds, and the site was live

At 10:05 the DNS flipped. The sentinel noticed on its own and did everything: final sync, the real domain, the certificate, the firewall, the automations. Twenty-four checks, all green. And one log line that, for thirty seconds, made me believe the opposite.