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