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 Engineering Repositories
The Artist's Gallery & Manuscripts
Painting
Kyler the MVP~2015 • Acrylic on Canvas
This acrylic on canvas painting captures the artist's grandson in a domestic setting. The work focuses on the vivid primary colors of the toddler's clothing and the sharp, graphic nature of the patches, which contrast with the soft, neutral tones of the kitchen cabinetry. The lighting is high-key...
Manuscript
earthsheartGenre: Speculative Fiction
Earth's Hidden Heart: A Verne & Burroughs Legacy Part 1: The Buried Legacy (The Unseen Seed) The year is 2075.
The world's population swells, energy demands skyrocket, and the last vestiges of fossil fuels dwindle.
A generation earlier, humanity, in a desperate bid to secure its future and dispose of its most dangerous byproducts, committed to deep geological repositories.
Within a labyrinth of engineered tunnels, far beneath the surface, lie the silent monuments of a past crisis: vast sarcop...
The world's population swells, energy demands skyrocket, and the last vestiges of fossil fuels dwindle.
A generation earlier, humanity, in a desperate bid to secure its future and dispose of its most dangerous byproducts, committed to deep geological repositories.
Within a labyrinth of engineered tunnels, far beneath the surface, lie the silent monuments of a past crisis: vast sarcop...
Poetry
From The Wreckby Adam Lindsay Gordon
'Turn out, boys!', 'What's up with our super to-night? The man's mad, Two hours to daybreak I'd swear, Stark mad, why, there isn't a glimmer of light.' 'Take Bolingbroke, Alec, give Jack the young mare; Look sharp. A large vessel lies jamm'd on the reef, And many on board still, and some wash'd on shore. Ride straight with the news, they may send some relief From the township; and we, we can do little more. You, Alec, you know the near cuts; you can cross 'The Sugarloaf' ford with a scramble,...