--- title: I launched Disaster Lab: know what to do when something... description: Flavio Copes launched Disaster Lab, a free library of 56 practical playbooks covering digital disaster prevention and recovery for both personal and business... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-launched-disaster-lab-know-what-to-do-when-something-breaks-aa9u0lqsf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I launched Disaster Lab: know what to do when something breaks | daily.dev og:description: Flavio Copes launched Disaster Lab, a free library of 56 practical playbooks covering digital disaster prevention and recovery for both personal and business... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-launched-disaster-lab-know-what-to-do-when-something-breaks-aa9u0lqsf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/AA9U0Lqsf.png og:image:alt: I launched Disaster Lab: know what to do when something breaks og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I launched Disaster Lab: know what to do when something breaks **[Flavio Copes](https://daily.dev/sources/flaviocopes)** · 13 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Flavio Copes launched Disaster Lab, a free library of 56 practical playbooks covering digital disaster prevention and recovery for both personal and business scenarios. Playbooks cover incidents like compromised GitHub organizations, deleted production data, expired domains, stolen phones, and hacked accounts. Each playbook has two entry points — emergency recovery steps and prevention preparation — and business playbooks include an operator worksheet following an Evidence → Decision → Action → Proof flow. The site is built with the AHA Stack (Astro, HTMX, Alpine.js), deployed as a static site on Cloudflare Pages, uses localStorage for checklist progress with no account required, and includes country-specific procedures and platform-specific instructions. AI coding agents were used extensively in building the catalog, with human review and build-time checks enforcing content quality standards. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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