$ Farpost · Lightbulbs
An idea doesn’t need a build decision to be worth capturing — it just needs its own record. Ideas specific to Farpost, one step upstream of a bug or a metric.
> Farpost's Real Origin Story
Logged 2026-07-07
Open the Farpost page with Robin's real founder story — a rural adjuster's dispatch problem, an Android side-project that collided with a competitor, and the RFID-tag idea salvaged into Farpost's building-intelligence platform.
> Farpost Atlas
Logged 2026-07-10
A geospatial map of tracked buildings with staleness indicators and a rural-density overlay — proves GIS/spatial-data skills genuinely distinct from this site's other pieces, directly portable to the real Farpost product.
> Farpost Dispatch
Logged 2026-07-10
A Salesforce Experience Cloud partner portal matching field professionals to jobs across rural coverage areas — a direct callback to Farpost's real founding story, proving building inside Salesforce rather than just integrating with it.
> Choosing Fastify Over Express
Logged 2026-07-24
The researched, against-the-grain choice of Fastify over Express for the Farpost rebuild, backed by Express's decade-long major-version gap and Fastify's schema-first, async-native design.