Spent the last few days deep in the parts of Realm that people actually touch every day, and honestly it’s the stuff I’m most proud of so far.

The file manager got a real overhaul. The old flow felt clunky. too many round trips, slow loads on big directories, and editing a config meant fighting the UI more than the file. I rebuilt how the panel talks to the daemon for file operations so listing, uploading, and editing all feel instant now. Dragging files around, renaming, moving things between folders. it just works the way you’d expect it to, without the lag that used to make me wince.

The plugin manager is the other big one. Instead of telling people to SSH in and drop jars into a folder by hand, you can now browse, install, and manage plugins straight from the panel. It pulls the right versions, handles the install, and keeps track of what’s actually running on the server. Watching a plugin install from a button click the first time it worked end to end was a genuinely good moment.

There’s also been a lot of quieter work under the hood. subdomain provisioning is wired in now so spinning up a server gives you something reachable without manual DNS fiddling, and I cleaned up a pile of reliability issues in the server management layer that were causing weird edge-case failures.

More to come. Still a lot I want to ship.