work

Bootstrap: Software Epistemology, Hermenuetics, and Sovereignty

• reflections on trusting trust
• mitigations
• T diagrams
• individual sovereignty
• discourse: lainchan
• software materialism
• backdooring a logic gate

physical copies are currently available.

research

• silicrete
• homebrew computer aesthetics
• trash computing
• DARPA SIEVE (2022–2024)

• website hosting
• x200
• chromebook nixos
• OnePlus 7T
• phone as home router
• typewriter printing press
• point no point editions

software

• mmmm: typesetting POSIX EDSL
• Standard ML Hardware Description Language
• Hix build system
• kiss-ppc

graphic design

• site composition manual
• nyc classical

silicon design

• tt07 — FRACTRAN implementation
• tt02 — haskell tooling

circuit board construction

• NES cartridge
• silicrete § substrate
• single-board embedded Rust

sculptural

• lossless
• framed PDP-11
• RLC Poème Symphonique
• rubylith

catalogs

• symbolics fonts
• 54/74-series integrated circuits
• multi-architecture jonesforth
• Diagramming Microchips (McCarty 1990, MoMA)

translation

in progress are amateur translations of Max Bense (wikipedia.org). selections may later appear here.

1. forth metaprogramming: embedding brainfuck
2. register file with lenses
3. brainfuck interpretive debugger 2020
4. tiny code christmas 2024
5. Z80 FORTH
6. Rust Z80 emulator
7. SAP emulation
8. APL Life
9. USENET: access and organization
10. reading the firefox dependency graph
11. early programming pearls: apply map list
12. Karnaugh Map
13. datatype calculus
14. LRC circuit Smith diagrams

proof

1. map the fundamental theory of calculus to generators
2. not-all-equal/3 is functionally complete
3. algebra of two's complement integers

annotated bibliography

• score following

fieldwork

• stochastic walks to the library
• MBTA green line speedruns

• computer modern fibonacci
• my college ID has 4KiB of writable memory
• native tail calls in C