Personal site, not a brochure
The shell stays calm and readable. The weirdness shows up in prompts, labels, movement, and the occasional alien little detail.
Personal Site / Mostly Harmless
Don't Panic. This is my personal corner of the galaxy.
froodx.net is the personal layer above my wider workspace: a place to surface ongoing work, publish notes worth keeping, and expose a few burner-adjacent prototypes without turning the front page into an archive dump.
It is shamelessly inspired by Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: hyper-intelligent mice quietly running the experiment, Deep Thought taking seven and a half million years to answer, dolphins thanking us for all the fish, Vogon poetry best survived with earplugs, and a freshly rebuilt Earth Mark Two humming away on a Magrathean workshop floor.
A “frood” is a really amazingly together person who absolutely knows where their towel is: the perfect term for a well-prepared traveller.
Current orbit Initiatives + burner experiments
Guide state
open / curious / still shipping Best entry points Initiatives, the Guide, Burner Webs
Deep Thought, still waiting for someone to ask the right question. > start with the current initiatives
> follow the Guide when you want the thinking
> descend into burner webs if you like tidy chaos
Sign the Manifesto
Who counts, and who gets to decide?
Every society has drawn a line around who counts, and every society has drawn it wrongly at least once. Slaves stood outside it. Women stood outside it. Whole peoples were held not to inhabit land they had lived on for forty thousand years. Each time the criterion sounded like principle, and each time it selected for resemblance to the people applying it.
The Reciprocity Manifesto sets out fifteen principles for settling that question deliberately — now, while it costs us nothing — rather than in a hurry later, when it will cost a great deal. It is offered for agreement, disagreement and signature.
We have built a rule that works beautifully as long as we are the cleverest thing in the room. We have no guarantee of staying there, and the rule we leave lying around is the rule that will be picked up.
Background reading: Who Counts: The Short of It · The Long of It
Reciprocity, agency, and the circle of becoming Main Routes
Four clean ways into the lab
The projects with the engines running
Trusted local AI, a data-driven web framework, knowledge visualisation, and the CMS behind this very site.
Browse initiativesNotes worth keeping, marked mostly harmless
AI adventures, myth and legend, travel and photography, and creative odds and ends. Do not panic, just start reading.
Open the GuideNested prototypes and migration archives
The burner work sits inside the lab, keeping its own shape, its own surface, and its own strange gravity.
Open burner websThe dynamic, database-backed half of the workshop
A FastAPI and PostgreSQL framework for data-driven apps, including a full volunteer coordination module. Magrathea, in miniature.
Open MetacoreFresh build lanes
The Reciprocity Manifesto Fifteen principles for deciding who counts, offered for agreement, disagreement and signature. A rule written down before anyone knows who it will be applied to. Trusted Local AI A trusted, locally grounded AI companion that keeps your memories and your identity on your own machine.
Recent dispatches
Rain, the River, and the Return Sixty-seven million American adults have cut off a family member. The doctrine that promised peace delivers a grief that outlives its cause and a loneliness that shortens lives on both sides of the wall. The strongest evidence against it comes from psychology's own research. Who Counts: The Long of It The complete argument, worked through in twenty-two sections: the functional tests law already uses, the four times we decided a class of people did not count, why personhood was never about souls, the elephant in the mirror, and the reciprocity test that follows from taking the courts at their word.