# Neighbor's Shovel — Blog Post

**Title:** Your Fiber Is Under a Shovel: Why Local Isn't a Preference, It's a Survival Strategy
**Slug:** your-fiber-is-under-a-shovel
**Category:** homelab
**Reading time:** 7 min
**Published:** 2026-05-07

## Assets

| File | Path |
|------|------|
| Hero SVG | `posts/neighbors-shovel/images/hero-wired.svg` |
| Inline SVG 1 — Chain of Failure | `posts/neighbors-shovel/images/chain-of-failure.svg` |
| Inline SVG 2 — Degraded-Mode Architecture | `posts/neighbors-shovel/images/degraded-mode-arch.svg` |
| Article Markdown | `posts/neighbors-shovel/article.md` |

## Publishing

Article is in workspace at `blog/posts/neighbors-shovel/article.md`.
Hero SVG deployed to `hoffdesk/blog/static/images/posts/neighbors-shovel-wired.svg`.

To publish:
1. Add post metadata to `.published_posts.json`
2. Copy/article content to production blog pipeline
3. Run rebuild