# macministat.us — The world's worst datacenter

> A status-page parody at https://macministat.us that audits the Mac mini under your desk as if it were production infrastructure. Region: `us-desk-drawer-1`. Six "services" with 90 days of uptime history, a live incident feed, and a 5-question infrastructure audit that issues an SLA grade. Thesis: **a Mac mini is a genuinely good computer and a genuinely bad datacenter** — and running AI coding agents on it makes it a datacenter whether you meant it to be one or not.

## TL;DR
- Developers increasingly leave a Mac mini running agents overnight. That is a single-node, single-region deployment with a human scheduler.
- Every "incident" on the site is a real failure mode of an always-on desktop: one outlet, no UPS, one fan, one filesystem, one operator who sleeps.
- The site is a joke. The failure modes are not.

## The six audited services (region us-desk-drawer-1)
- **Compute** — single tenant, shared with the browser, Slack, Docker Desktop and the household media server. No admission control.
- **Network** — consumer mesh, powerline adapter, dynamic IP, no failover circuit. The router's SLA is a support forum thread.
- **Power** — one wall outlet, no UPS, occasionally a smart plug still running last year's lamp schedule.
- **Cooling** — one blower fan, enclosed placement, no intake clearance. Escalation path: open the drawer, then open a window.
- **Scheduler** — a human. No retry policy, no alerting, a strong preference for lunch.
- **Session Persistence** — one Screen Sharing session, tmux (allegedly), `/tmp`, and unpushed branches.

## The audit
Five questions — where agents run, what happens when power blinks, what the mini is plugged into, the cooling strategy, and who restarts a crashed job. Answers produce an annualized uptime figure, an SLA grade, findings, and a Certificate of Infrastructure Compliance.

Grade bands: A+ 99%+ (Tier I) · A 95%+ (Tier II) · B 88%+ (Tier III) · C 75%+ (Tier IV) · D 60%+ (Unrated) · F below 60%. Below 75% the certificate is stamped **Not production ready**.

## The serious argument
One machine means one blast radius. Agents running on the mini share a filesystem, a keychain, a network and a set of credentials — with each other and with everything else you keep on that host. Anthropic's own Claude Code documentation says unattended `--dangerously-skip-permissions` runs belong inside a container or VM, because file tools, MCP servers and hooks otherwise run unconstrained on the host. A desk-drawer Mac mini is the host.

## Links
- [macministat.us (the status page and audit)](https://macministat.us/)
- [Is a Mac mini a good server for AI coding agents?](https://macministat.us/learn.html) — the honest, non-parody answer
- [macbookstat.us](https://macbookstat.us) — the laptop edition
- [safely-skip-permissions.dev](https://safely-skip-permissions.dev) — the containment score for agent sandboxes

## Sponsor
macministat.us is an idea from [Fabriqa](https://fabriqa.ai) — the coordination layer for AI coding agents. Fabriqa runs your agents in isolated cloud sandboxes, so the mini goes back to being a very good desktop computer.