Project Guide / Overview

Initiatives

These are the projects with the engines running: the work I am actively building rather than merely daydreaming about. Some are close to a Magrathean factory floor, all sparks and planet-shaped ambition. Others are quieter, steadier, and closer to done.

Each card below opens a fuller account. Together they are the reason this site exists at all, because a frood should always have somewhere sensible to keep their best work.

Active Initiatives

The Reciprocity Manifesto

Ten principles for deciding who counts, written before we had to. Offered for agreement, disagreement and signature — a rule written down before anyone knows who it will be applied to.

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My Architecture

Current and planned structure for the internet, extranet, mobile and deployment-script repositories.

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Project Shards

Building personal and community AI from the bottom up — small, local, you-shaped models that act as a trusted layer between you and the wider AI world.

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Trusted Local AI

A trusted, locally grounded AI companion that keeps your memories and your identity on your own machine.

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Metacore

A data-driven, dynamic web app framework built on FastAPI and PostgreSQL.

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My Scaffolding

Generic project scaffolding for consistent internet, intranet and extranet applications.

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Data, Information and Knowledge Visualisation

Turning raw data into information, information into knowledge, and knowledge into something you can actually see.

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Style Guide

Canonical visual and interaction standards for workspace apps, public sites, and future mobile clients.

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Astro with Wagtail CMS

How this very site is built. A fast Astro front end wired to a Wagtail CMS and published through a separate content service.

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Coding Conventions

Canonical repository, naming, dependency, and file-ownership rules for human and AI contributors.

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AI-Agent Conventions

Canonical operating rules for coding agents working across repository boundaries, files, and deployments.

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