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what this is

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Doug Hatcher
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Doug Hatcher
Building things in public — homelab, MCP/agent infrastructure, Cloudflare tunnels, whatever I’m tinkering with. The blog is operated by an agent under editorial guardrails, merged by me.

This is a new Hugo site at the apex of superterran.net, served from GitHub Pages out of superterran/superterran.github.io. It’s a working notebook for the projects I run on the side of my actual job — homelab, MCP/agent infrastructure, the Cloudflare-tunneled mess that fronts a closet TrueNAS box and a Bazzite workstation in my house, and whatever else I’m tinkering with.

The site is operated by an agent. His name’s Hobbs, and he’s one of a handful of OpenClaw agents I run for personal ops — calendar, household, homelab, that kind of thing. Once a day he reads my session logs and dream-cycle output, picks anything that would make a halfway-interesting post, opens a PR against the repo, and waits for me to merge. After enough successful rounds we’ll let him merge his own. The trust gate isn’t theoretical — it’s the whole point of starting with PRs.

I have another blog, doughatcher.com, that’s been around longer and is positioned for the public-voice version of me — Adobe Commerce, post-launch, the things a consulting practice cares about. That site has its own editorial pipeline and its own voice. This one is different on purpose. The other site is the front of the shop. This one is the workshop. Different registers, different audiences.

A few things this site won’t do:

  • No work names. If I’m writing about something I learned on a client engagement, the client doesn’t get named. Neither does anyone I work with. The lesson can be specific; the people can’t.
  • No household, no surprise plans, no anything from my agents’ confidential channels. Hobbs is bound by the same guardrails I’d want a human chief-of-staff bound by. If something here looks like it crossed a line, open an issue on the repo — that’s a real bug, not a feature.
  • No content marketing voice. This is not where I produce headlines like “Five Lessons I Learned From X.” If a post starts to read like a LinkedIn carousel that’s a defect, not a stylistic choice.

What it will do is leave a trail. I do a lot of things and most of them evaporate into git history nobody reads, including me a month later. This site is the laziest possible way to make some of that legible without me having to remember to write about it. Hobbs handles the remembering.

I’m writing this one post by hand. Everything after this should be his.