https://binaryranch.com/blog/ The story of a ranch being built in real time. From 2008 to now. en-us Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:24:23 +0000 https://binaryranch.com/blog/2026-08-06-openhome-devkit-arrives.html https://binaryranch.com/blog/2026-08-06-openhome-devkit-arrives.html I'd been saving the box for a month. Hadn't opened it. Avoided spoilers on Twitter. Haven't been this excited since I went to an Apple Store 20 years ago. Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://binaryranch.com/blog/2026-06-29-hackathon-submission.html https://binaryranch.com/blog/2026-06-29-hackathon-submission.html We're submitting to the Hermes Agent Accelerated Business Hackathon today. The deadline is June 30. The submission has three parts: a demo video, a tweet tagging Nous Research, and a form. Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://binaryranch.com/blog/2026-06-25-business-model-and-agent-team.html https://binaryranch.com/blog/2026-06-25-business-model-and-agent-team.html Today we defined the business model and built out the agent team. This was the session where the vision became concrete. Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://binaryranch.com/blog/2026-06-22-networkchuck-and-product-board.html https://binaryranch.com/blog/2026-06-22-networkchuck-and-product-board.html Watched NetworkChuck's Hermes video today. Thirty-two minutes. A few things stood out for our architecture. Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://binaryranch.com/blog/2026-06-21-security-hardening.html https://binaryranch.com/blog/2026-06-21-security-hardening.html Three days of security work before the hackathon announcement. This is the work behind the demo. Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://binaryranch.com/blog/2026-06-17-reinstalling-hermes.html https://binaryranch.com/blog/2026-06-17-reinstalling-hermes.html I reinstalled Hermes today. The first install was two weeks earlier and it didn't feel right. The agent was working, but I was driving it with my pre-Hermes mental model. I had spent eight months buil... Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://binaryranch.com/blog/2026-06-13-spring-26-upgrade.html https://binaryranch.com/blog/2026-06-13-spring-26-upgrade.html Upgraded the server today. Nextcloud AIO from v13.1.0 to Hub 26 Spring, v33.0.5. All core containers healthy. Apache, Nextcloud, Database, Redis, Talk, Collabora, Imaginary, ClamAV, Whiteboard, Notify... Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://binaryranch.com/blog/2026-05-30-defining-the-product.html https://binaryranch.com/blog/2026-05-30-defining-the-product.html Today we defined what Servetus actually is. One sentence: an integrated large language model orchestrator that runs as a Docker container beside Nextcloud. You install it, and you have a fully soverei... Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://binaryranch.com/blog/2026-03-22-thesis-takes-shape.html https://binaryranch.com/blog/2026-03-22-thesis-takes-shape.html A late-night session on March 22 crystallized the Binary Ranch thesis. The Parler incident became the founding example. AWS shut Parler down on political pressure in January 2021 and destroyed the mos... Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://binaryranch.com/blog/2026-03-14-why-this-company-exists.html https://binaryranch.com/blog/2026-03-14-why-this-company-exists.html T-Mobile placed a carrier lock on three family phones. They demanded payment for devices they had previously given for free. The account had been closed a month earlier. Before closing it, I asked the... Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://binaryranch.com/blog/2026-01-29-the-pitch-deck.html https://binaryranch.com/blog/2026-01-29-the-pitch-deck.html The 35-slide investor pitch deck was completed on January 29, 2026. Five movements. ElevenLabs, Suno, and Canva production workflow. Targeting Ken Mayo. Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://binaryranch.com/blog/2025-early-the-team-comes-together.html https://binaryranch.com/blog/2025-early-the-team-comes-together.html Binary Ranch started with a simple question: what if you owned your digital life the way you own your home? Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://binaryranch.com/blog/2024-12-30-the-decision.html https://binaryranch.com/blog/2024-12-30-the-decision.html Jim Coler asked me a question on December 30, 2024. If you looked back five years from now, what would be the single most important decision you made today? Mon, 30 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://binaryranch.com/blog/2020-the-inflection.html https://binaryranch.com/blog/2020-the-inflection.html Two things happened in 2020 that changed everything. The Social Dilemma dropped, and Parler was deplatformed. Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://binaryranch.com/blog/2008-the-frontier.html https://binaryranch.com/blog/2008-the-frontier.html Binary Ranch started in 2008 as a web hosting company. The idea was the digital frontier. We had hosting packages called pioneers and settlers. Pioneers are the risk takers. The pioneers get the arrow... Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000 https://binaryranch.com/blog/2005-the-server-loss.html https://binaryranch.com/blog/2005-the-server-loss.html The server was in Florida. We never met the people. We didn't know where the building was. We didn't even know if there was a building. Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0000 https://binaryranch.com/blog/1996-iris-group.html https://binaryranch.com/blog/1996-iris-group.html The first web company. Quincy, Illinois. 1996. Mon, 01 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000