What The Visitor Sees

• Desktop shell with draggable windows, taskbar buttons, Start menu, and iframe-backed program surfaces.
• Sol Assistant as a retro desktop companion for grounded archive chat.
• Blog and document windows for Markdown and HTML content under posts/ and the top-level archive.
• Site Map as an Explorer-like archive browser driven by a generated site index.
• Traffic Monitor as a live window over access-log and telemetry snapshots.
• Public Logbook as a web IRC client over the same local transport used by the logger bot.

What Keeps It Alive

• caddy-sol37.service serves the local origin at 127.0.0.1:8888.
• pkd-cloudflared-quick-tunnel.service publishes sol.system42.one.
• public-logbook-api.service and public-logbook-irc-logger.service back the logbook.
• site-index-watch.service and video-playlist-watch.service rebuild live artifacts.
• site-metrics-snapshot.timer and synthetic-logbook-snapshot.timer refresh generated JSON.

Machine Truths

• The site is mostly static files, but several windows are only truthful because local daemons are running.
• The traffic monitor reports the current access-log window, not all-time history.
• The sensor readouts mirror the same MasterBot-style telemetry keys used elsewhere on this machine.
• The public logbook includes intentional synthetic continuity, not just organic chat traffic.
• User linger is enabled so the user service stack survives reboot without requiring a login.

Files Worth Knowing

• /home/david/random/www/index.html
• /home/david/random/www/site-server.html
• /home/david/random/www/README.md
• /home/david/random/bin/Caddyfile.pkd_share
• /home/david/random/bin/site_metrics_snapshot.py
• /home/david/random/bin/public_logbook_api.py

Shell Commands

• help, about, date, ls, theme ...
• posts, openpost <id>, cat <id>
• chat opens the Sol Assistant
• sitemap opens the file browser
• star opens the Star Map
• logbook opens the IRC-backed public logbook
• readme opens the full site-server manual

Why This Window Exists

The built-in About page is now the overview, not the whole manual. The complete write-up lives in random/www/README.md with a browser-readable companion page at site-server.html.