Now

Building

• Quill by MapleSpike — live at quill.maplespike.ca¹: Canadian bills, committees, the Canada Gazette, lobbying, contracts and StatCan data for AI agents and developers. Every answer links to its source, under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Next up: tighter developer docs and an easier quickstart for connecting Quill to AI agents over MCP.
• Astral Key — a single-binary Rust auth sidecar: WebAuthn passkeysTechpasskeyA login key kept on your own device that proves it is you without sending a password anyone could steal or copy., SIWE wallet login and JWT sessions on SQLite. It is becoming the single sign-on for my own homelabTechhomelabA small pile of computers at home that you run yourself, mostly for the pleasure of pointing at a box and knowing exactly what it is doing. services.
• Trading system — building a trading system: paper trading only right now.
• k3sTechk3sKubernetes is the scheduler that decides which little programs run on which machines, and k3s is the small certified version of that job. It belongs in a spare room, not a data centre. homelab — a small k3s homelab, declared in git and reconciled by Argo CD, with a small fleet of AI agents helping run it. This site builds and deploys itself on runners in that cluster, with the browsers and toolchains already baked into the image.

Writing

The notebook keeps compiling: 68 essays across three series, plus written companions for the songs on their own shelf.

• The Sovereign Architecture — a bare-metalTechbare metalA computer with no landlord's software sitting between you and the hardware. You can see what is running, because you are the one who started it. diagnostic of the self.
• These Worlds Are Made of Light — essays on the worlds, the people and the light that holds them together.
• The Sovereign Sysadmin — technology that earns its keep when you can still read, modify and rebuild it.

Every essay now opens with a TL;DR that states its claim in one breath, and closes with a curated trail of related reading. The house style is written down and enforced at build time, so structure drifts are caught by a gate instead of by a reader.

Fresh off the press on 30 October: The Landlord Fallacy, I Don’t Have a Side, I Have a Self and The Architecture of Ease. Just before them, The Paranoia Protocol and The Secular Boundary.

Music

Both records are out. All of it is playable in the music section, and the catalogue keeps growing on Spotify².

• These Worlds Are Made of Light — a VRChatWorksVRChatA social virtual world. You show up as an avatar and talk to people in a room that is not a physical room. concept album, released 11 October.
• GENERATION ZERO — the sovereigntyIdeasovereigntyYou, not a landlord, get the last word on your life, your attention, and your machine. It is a practical right, not a costume you put on for the argument. record, released 16 October.
• New on Spotify: A Neural Network, Small Forever, Pocket Universe (and its Golden Hour cut), The Faraway Becomes a Home and The Open Door Is You.
• Five videos are public on YouTube: Epoch Reset, A Neural Network, Open Space of Making, The Faraway Becomes a Home, and Pocket Universe.
• The written companion works live on the music page: the essays and reasoning that came before the lyrics, kept beside the records instead of in the essay feed.
• Next in the studio: a clean edit of Endless Virtual Marathon.

The character

• Every essay wears its own illustrated header featuring my OC, across more than twenty anime art styles. Each image is reviewed against a canon checklist before it is allowed on a page, and the build refuses unreviewed art.
• Twenty aside stickers now catch the light in the margins, one per mood, each drawn with a different expression, gesture and light.
• The OC’s VRChat avatarTechavatarThe body you choose to wear in a virtual world. It shows what you picked, not what you were born with. is getting a rebuilt face, with PC and Quest versions in the works.
• A new art model is in training so the OC stays recognisably themselves in any style, and the eye design is being isolated into its own dataset so the face survives the style.

Learning

• Advanced Rust patterns: SQLx, Axum, WebAuthn.
• MCP server development and integration.
• Agent orchestration and local inference on owned hardware.
• Making machines grade themselves: review gates for generated art, structural gates for writing, and CI that says no faster than I can.

Elsewhere

The professional half of this — client work, self-hostedTechself-hostingRunning a service on a machine you control instead of renting it from a company. You keep the data, the logs, and the off switch. AI systems, the pitch — is reverb256.dev³. This site stays the notebook: the essays, the music, and the record of what the stack costs. The live conversation runs on Threads⁴.