PublishedOct 3, 2026
note / experiment
A thin-client Linux experiment
A network-boot question became a comparison of separate remote desktops and shared physical desktops, ending with a usable Linux thin-client session and working audio.
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project / experiment
A local AI workspace with LibreChat and Ollama
A local AI setup narrowed to a concrete Docker-to-host networking problem: the model answered directly, while the container path needed a firewall change.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
note / design study
Music for an unreachable future
The arrangement behind Far Future Unobtainable: a reaching motif, D-minor colors, four instrumental layers, and an unresolved ending.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
project
Whacky Platform Layer
A Linux-native C11 platform layer grew out of custom node-graph UI work, with narrow contracts for windows, input, drawing, files, and replay.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
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Research OS
A Rust simulator for explicit authority, with capability and policy checks, atomic audit rules, replay experiments, and a concrete Stage 1A failure.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
project / experiment
An AI agent in a disposable VM
A personal lab for watching how an ordinary sudo-capable agent handled normal Linux tasks, including malformed actions and a suspected loop.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
project / design study
WhackyTech Workbench
A Debian VM plan put activities, a command palette, plain-file state, and recovery at the center of a small Xorg/FVWM3 desktop experiment.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
note / build log
A Linux From Scratch build attempt
Building Linux From Scratch in a VM: host checks, the cross-toolchain, chroot, package corrections, and test results that were not uniformly clean.
PublishedOct 3, 2026
note / learning note
From operating systems to an SDL sketch
An oversized operating-system request narrowed into a small C++ wrapper that opened an SDL window and drew one rectangle.