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.
Ten items on the account-side Email roadmap. Nine shipped; the tenth is a documented wait on infrastructure that doesn’t exist yet, with no half-built shortcut taken to close…
Read more →Every admin roadmap item was marked Live at this point. The question was whether that was still true, not just when each section shipped. Four parallel passes each…
Read more →Five items in the roadmap’s catch-all section. Three were already built, one was already correctly scoped, and one, Webhooks, was a genuine gap worth building properly. DNS resolver…
Read more →Five items on this section’s roadmap. Two were already fully built and just mislabeled. One was a straightforward build. The last two turned out to be the wrong…
Read more →One item left in this section: a real process list and disk usage view, with the ability to stop a runaway process. The closest existing pattern was the…
Read more →Five items on this section’s roadmap, one of them (“Reseller accounts”) already in progress. Started with a routing audit that found a Reseller can reach only a small…
Read more →One item was left in Software & PHP — an OS package management UI. The System Updates page only applies updates to packages already installed, so installing something…
Read more →Two items were left on the Databases roadmap — a visual database browser and a set of maintenance tools. Both shipped, alongside two bugs found by clicking through…
Read more →Three items were left on the SSL/TLS roadmap — CSR generation, a real certificate inventory, and server-wide TLS policy configuration. All three shipped, and one got the kind…
Read more →With the Security section closed out, it felt like the right moment for another full pass, covering Access Control, Password Policy, API Tokens, the Service Configuration section, and…
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