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.

The Venus of Urbino The Venus of Urbino
c. 1534 • Oil on Canvas
This is a painting from the Venetian High Renaissance, and one of the most famous reclining nudes in Western art. The goddess Venus is depicted in a luxurious domestic interior, reclining on a bed. Her body is relaxed and sensual, and she gazes directly at the viewer with a knowing and confident ...
prebang
Genre: Speculative Fiction
The Architect of the Void The fundamental premise of the cosmos is that gravity serves as the primary driver for all subsequent complexity.
In the earliest epoch, the state of the expanse was characterized by a total absence of structure.
The distribution of hydrogen atoms was so sparse that the mean free path between particles was effectively infinite.
This extreme dispersion required a timeline of billions, or perhaps trillions, of years for gravitational attraction to overcome the initial ...
A Christmas Eve
by Victor James Daley
Good fellows are laughing and drinking (To-night no heart should grieve), But I am of old days thinking, Alone, on Christmas Eve. Old memories fast are springing To life again; old rhymes Once more in my brain are ringing, Ah, God be with old times! There never was man so lonely But ghosts walked him beside, For Death our spirits can only By veils of sense divide. Numberless as the blades of Grass in the fields that grow, Around us hover the shades of The dead of long ago. Friends living a wo...