Notes from building KNJ Panel, in the order it actually happened.
blog /blɒɡ/ noun — 1. A web log. 2. Here: a build log. What we built, what broke, and what we learned.
The App Installer had done one thing: install WordPress synchronously, blocking the request for up to two minutes. This phase turns it into a catalog. Drupal, Nextcloud, MediaWiki,…
Read more →Before the Software section’s multi-app installer, we paused for a full audit: everything shipped since #06, checked end to end before moving on. That covered ten sections of…
Read more →A detour from the roadmap’s order: real phpMyAdmin installed by default and always visible in the client panel, ahead of the Software section’s multi-app installer. It doesn’t replace…
Read more →The Preferences section’s last two rows, “Sub-accounts” and “Team access”, turned out to be one feature described twice: the panel had no concept of more than one login…
Read more →A one-item section, plus a roadmap claim that turned out to be wrong. The DNS Lookup tool needed almost no new design: the Controller area already had a…
Read more →Two roadmap rows, one real gap, and a “primary domain only” limitation underneath both of them. The roadmap read “SSL/TLS: certificates are live, CSR generation is next” and…
Read more →Five roadmap rows, three of which turned into two features, plus one that just needed the roadmap updated. Raw access log download went first. It had shipped earlier…
Read more →Three items, plus a CI check that was fixed along the way. The guided database wizard was the simple one: a “Quick Setup” section that creates a database,…
Read more →Three items on the account-side Files roadmap, plus one that turned out to already be done. Two bugs were found by making real HTTP requests against the server…
Read more →Three items on the account-side Domains roadmap. All three shipped, and along the way turned up two bugs unrelated to the features being built: one in a mail-filter…
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