Welcome

Enthusiast of many, master of little. This digital garden is where I cultivate ideas about my many, many enthusiasms.

AI is used to support this website, more of a hand-in-hand way than a give-the-reigns way. The content of the website is less for you, and more for me. The purpose is to bring thoughts past the point of my head and my journal, and into the public domain. My AI use is to bring that to fruition, not to get your clicks for ads.

I like knowledge networks. I have thousands of notes in obsidian notes and am working my damndest to externalize thoughts and make a second brain.

This is and will always be a work in progress, which is typical of my projects. I break a lot of eggs to make omelettes.

Start Here

For starting points, I recommend:

• Technology & Privacy hub.
  • It maps out my thinking on self-hosting, open source tools, and building infrastructure you control rather than rent.
• Career
  • Doesn't really lead to anywhere other than my past.
• My Home Server Hardware
  • Another main vein of my tree with many branches.

Deeper Dives

For deeper explorations of specific concepts, these essays lay out complete visions:

• Localscaling
  • Examines how distributed residential computing could challenge centralized cloud datacenters. It's about aggregating home servers into networks that compete with hyperscalers through coordination rather than concentration.
• The Cyberdeck as Computing Interface
  • Explores portable devices as natural language interfaces to distributed computing. It's about making powerful infrastructure accessible through conversation rather than commands.
• Self-Hosting a Home Server
  • A practical guide to running your own infrastructure. It covers the why, the how, and the realities of maintaining services on hardware you own.

If you're curious about specific technologies, the notes section covers everything from Docker and local AI models to privacy-focused mobile operating systems and smart home automation.

End Here

Contact - Let me know who you are if you find any of this interesting. The purpose of the site is multi-faceted, and one of those reasons is to broadcast my thoughts and see who reaches out. I like sharing ideas with people, and building off those ideas together.

The below is in zero order. Order of first come first serve from my notes.

Websites I find interesting:

• FMHY
  • Great aggregation of tools
• Kagi Small Web
  • Fun small web discovery
• RSS Social
  • Fun RSS discovery
• Bill Mill's Notes
  • Digital Garden stuff
• Andy Matuschak's Main Site
  • Applied researcher focusing on creating user interfaces that expand what people can think and do.
• Hackaday
• Crowdsupply
  • Crowdfunding open-friendly software and hardware
• Awesome Self-Hosted
• Iconify API
• https://anagora.org/
  • Wiki-like free knowledge commons for self published notes
• https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/
  • Neil's Digital Garden
• https://www.alfa.com.tw/
  • OpenWRT, WiFi products
• https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
  • 1971 was a crazy year for some reason

RSS Feeds I use:

• RSS

Podcasts I listen to:

• No Agenda
• Acquired
• Congressional Dish
• FLOSS Weekly
• The Jack Carr Channel
• Moody's Talks - Inside Economics
• Broken Silicon
• Lemmy's Podcast
• The Multiverse Employee Handbook
• THE ANON TRUTH FEED
• Conversations with Tyler
• The Homelab Show
• WOLFF DEN Podcast
• DHUnplugged
• Majesty of Reason Philosophy Podcast
• Odd Lots
• Philosophy Daily
• S2 Underground
• Security Now
• Majesty of Reason Philosophy Podcast
• Odd Lots
• Philosophy Daily
• S2 Underground
• Security Now

Readings I find interesting:

• The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral
  • The white paper of digital gardens.
• Bitcoin White Paper
  • The OG
• Maggie Appleton
  • Website and Digital Garden history
• gwern
  • Website and article about spaced repetition and learning
• https://borretti.me/article/notes-on-managing-adhd
  • Archived

Cheat Sheets

• Docker
• ranger cli