Engineer's Log

10 articles

Finished Ares bridge — production live on the set

Engineer's Log

Jun 28, 2026

Sundown, Cutover, and the VPS

Leave WordPress, leave Fly, keep one Iceland VPS — the runbook for one domain.

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U.S.S. Ajax — the public face of the saga

Engineer's Log

May 20, 2026

Next.js as the Public Face

ISR, burned-in shop catalog, legacy redirects, and the donor portal — what visitors actually touch.

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Engineer's Log

Apr 8, 2026

Drupal as the Operations Brain

Donors, pledges, commerce, fulfillment, and messages — why Drupal stays authoritative behind the decoupled curtain.

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Ares bridge lit for cameras — one working set

Engineer's Log

Feb 10, 2026

One Host in Iceland

Next.js, Drupal, Postgres, Redis, and Caddy on one 1984.hosting VPS — the production topology that replaces four vendors.

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Personnel Record

Personnel Record

Lee Quessenberry

Jan 15, 2026

The Society now receives ongoing supplemental transmissions from Quessenberry under the moniker Captain Q'Berry. In the documentary frame, Q'Berry serves as curator aboard USS Enyo (NCC-1666) — a replica Ares-class vessel of the era, berthed among the decommissioned fleet of amba…

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Engineer's Log

Nov 20, 2025

The Pilot Tax

Three platforms, three logins, and a year of ops-heavy work that rarely showed up as git commits.

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Alec Peters · Archive entry — The Essential Axanar - How to Watch the Axanar S

Personnel Record

Lee Quessenberry

Jun 15, 2025

Decoupled axanar.com

WordPress could no longer carry the project's weight. Quessenberry architected the decoupled rebuild: Drupal as content and commerce authority, Next.js as the public face. Wiki archive, video chronicle, donor portal, VIP memberships, shop integration, transcript pipeline, and MAH…

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U.S.S. Ares challenge coin — Tip of the Spear

Engineer's Log

Jun 12, 2025

The Donor Resurrection

Lovable + Supabase shipped axanardonors.com in November 2025 when fans needed a portal — fast, fragile, and intentionally temporary.

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Ares bridge under construction at Ares Studios

Engineer's Log

Oct 5, 2024

The Decoupled Blueprint

Drupal holds truth; Next.js holds speed — how we split responsibilities between the operations brain and the public face.

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U.S.S. Ares in drydock — one hull, one berth

Engineer's Log

Jul 18, 2024

Why Axanar Needed One Domain

Three platforms, three logins, and fifteen thousand donor relationships scattered across Kickstarter, WordPress, and pilot portals — the case for unification.

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Engineer's Log

Sundown, Cutover, and the VPS

Next.js as the Public Face

Drupal as the Operations Brain

One Host in Iceland

Captain Q'Berry — USS Enyo

The Pilot Tax

Decoupled axanar.com

The Donor Resurrection

The Decoupled Blueprint

Why Axanar Needed One Domain