The Counter Needs a Tool · front-of-house software and the rules underneath it

A front-of-house dashboard built for a wall-mounted tablet and a flaky venue network: a backend-for-frontend that keeps every credential off the device, the ops team's own tools used without being called, and offline data that knows what to forget. Then the rules underneath every repository: decisions written before code, one path to production, infrastructure enforced by policy, and why a rule that is not checked is only a preference.