{
  "date": "2026-07-16",
  "operator": "Paul Campbell",
  "window": "07:45–08:15 UTC (approx)",
  "why": "Federated blobs Phase A live verification (Claude session over the operator tunnel): stood up a throwaway test-blobmirror.11ch.at canary, installed a two-store blob config (Hetzner Object Storage primary + AWS mirror), and proved the loop end-to-end — an upload landed on both providers, and deleting the primary object confirmed reads fall through to the mirror. Canary and its data torn down at the end. Two robustness fixes surfaced and merged (version-dir permissions under a tight umask; upload error logging).",
  "refs": ["https://github.com/elevenmessenger/messenger/pull/1010", "https://github.com/elevenmessenger/messenger/pull/1029", "https://github.com/elevenmessenger/messenger/pull/1050"]
}