A small outpost for building, refining, and shipping software systems: open-source contributions, system design, and turning ideas into finished work.
| System | Status |
|---|---|
| Core Systems | Online |
| Exploration | Underway |
| Lab | 4 Schematics |
| Spacedock | Empty |
| Communications | Active |
Exploring:
- Rust
- Linux systems
- desktop software
- developer tools
Ideas worth returning to:
“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” — Isaac Newton | Formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation.
“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.” — Linus Torvalds | Created Linux and Git.
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” — Albert Einstein | Developed relativity and helped shape modern physics.
“One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.” — Nikola Tesla | Developed AC power systems, induction motors, and polyphase distribution.
“In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.” — Unknown | A reminder that implementation is the real test.
Guiding principles for building and improving:
- Build systems from small, understandable components.
- Document decisions, not just procedures.
- Treat the first design as a hypothesis; implementation is the experiment.
- Prefer clarity over cleverness.
- Borrow good ideas. Credit where they came from. Improve what you can.
Operational familiarity:
- Rust
- Git
- Linux
- Markdown
- Python
- English
Schematics:
- Diffusion — a desktop environment that values ease of use and uses progressive disclosure to keep complexity manageable. Part of Tungsten.
- Lumen — a compositor for the Diffusion desktop environment.
- Mendelo — a command-line (and eventually GUI-based) Rust program for viewing data on the Elements.
- Plinth — accounting built on plain text
- Tungsten — a Linux distribution that prioritizes solidity and minimizes architectural disarray.
Projects:
Nothing here yet. Projects will appear here when they are ready for launch.
Open-source contributions:
| Date begun | Project name | Description of change | Date completed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-28 | TARS: | minor improvements to the README | not yet |
| 2026-06-17 | Backdown: | went further, improving code comments | 2026-06-17 |
| 2026-06-15 | Smithay: | improved the README and fixed a broken link | 2026-06-16 |
| 2026-06-15 | Otto: | improved clarity in the documentation | 2026-06-15 |
| 2026-06-10 | util-linux: | improved the contributor guidelines | 2026-06-15 |
| 2026-06-08 | Backdown: | improved grammar in the README | 2026-06-08 |
| 2026-06-08 | ninja: | minor grammatical improvements in the manual | not yet |
Abandoned projects:
Nothing here yet. Perhaps something will be archived in the future.