Ship’s Log: Social Deck Commissioned and the Fleet Grows
A busy stretch aboard Stormy Sailors: the website refit, QR Forge, Stormy Links, and the commissioning of Social Deck with working Facebook and Instagram publishing.
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Notes from the workbench: what changed, what failed, and what comes next.
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A Cleaner Deck, New Charts, and a Build Worth Doing
The website refit is in place, QR Forge has a cleaner foundation, an e-paper badge is becoming a proper maker build, and OpenCPN marks the first steps into coastal navigation.
The Fleet Expands, the Watch Is Raised
A ship can spend weeks in dry dock and still move closer to the sea. Since the last entry, the Stormy Sailors fleet has been doing exactly that. The work has ranged from firmware and wireless systems to Linux services, web companions, server audits and a rather ambitious attempt to teach a local computer how […]
The Hull Takes Shape
There comes a point in every build when the collection of parts on the bench stops looking like a collection of parts and starts looking like a ship. Project Destroyer reached one of those points today. A Proper Hull The Tactical Pirate now has a clearly defined interface architecture built specifically around the little 320×170 […]
New Bearings, Better Broadsides
The last few days aboard Stormy Sailors Maker Lab have been another mixture of useful progress, stubborn electronics, Linux tinkering, and ideas that started with the dangerous phrase, “I wonder if we could…” IR Broadside Gets a Refit The Tactical Pirate infrared system has received a substantial engineering pass. IR Broadside v2 was tested against […]
A Very Busy Shipyard
The Stormy Sailors Maker Lab has been unusually busy lately. Several projects that began as rough ideas are now working systems—or at least functioning well enough to begin proper sea trials. The Tactical Pirate The Tactical Pirate handheld has moved from a bare development board to functioning custom firmware with a distinctly Stormy Sailors appearance. […]
This Is Why the Captain Needs Supervision
Friday, August 14, 2026 The day started peacefully enough aboard ship. I’d already consumed enough coffee to float a small destroyer, so I switched over to tea and settled in for what I foolishly believed might be a quiet and productive day. Aye. That lasted about ten bloody minutes. First order of business was Operation […]