The site is rebuilt, the blog works, the forums exist. So what actually happens here now?
More write-ups, less silence
The plan is simple: when we build something, we write it down. Homelab changes, 3D printing experiments, smart home battles, software side projects. Not polished tutorials, just honest lab notes. Some posts will be long. Some will be three paragraphs and a lesson learned the hard way.
Project pages that fill themselves
Each big project gets its own page with an overview, a build log, and a specs sheet. The build logs pull straight from blog categories, so writing a post automatically updates the project it belongs to. The first one is live for the site rebuild itself, which is about as meta as we care to get.
The forums are open, sort of
The forums exist and they are styled, but registration is closed while we figure out moderation and spam. For now they are read-only for visitors. If they turn into a real community, great. If they stay a quiet corner, that is fine too. We built them because we wanted to, which is the official Root Labs reason for doing anything.
Maybe, eventually, some things to download
Down the road we would like to put useful digital things here: print files, templates, small tools. Things we made that other people might want. No timeline, no promises, and no, we are not becoming a store. The projects come first.
The honest version
We both have day jobs. The lab runs on evenings, weekends, and stubbornness. Posting will be irregular and we will not pretend otherwise. But the infrastructure is done, the excuses are gone, and the print queue is full.
If you want to follow along, the blog has an RSS feed, because of course it does. See you in the next write-up.