The Eclectacy Laboratory

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Efficiency is Independence

I'm a retired architect building systems that don't need "Big Tech" permission to exist. I run a full web presence, mail stack, and security layer for a dozen users on 1GB of RAM. No Docker. No bloat. No bullshit.

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~2015 • Oil on Canvas
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Genre: Speculative Fiction
Scene 1: The Children's Playground (Revised - Fifth Pass) The sandbox was a chaos of fine grit and flung plastic, exactly as any proper sandbox should be.
A couple of parents sat on a nearby bench, faces tipped to the sun, occasionally glancing up from their screens.
You'd think the squealing and the bits of sand clinging to every surface would get to them, but most seemed to have developed an impressive filter.
Seven-year-old Eleanor Vance, her knees already streaked with the day's first lay...
Cuckoo!
by John Hartley
Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Just a word i' thi ear, - Aw hooap we shall net disagree; But aw'm foorced to admit as aw watch thi each year, At tha seems a big humbug to me. We know at tha brings us glad tidins ov Spring, An for that art entitled to thanks; But tha maks a poor fist when tha offers to sing, An tha plays some detestable pranks. Too lazy to build a snug hooam for thisel, Tha lives but a poor vagrant life; An thi mate is noa better aw'm sooary to tell, Shoo's unfit to be onny burd's wife. Shoo...