Subsection on TurboVision

AI, Language, and Protocols

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A Small Essay Series

This subsection gathers a connected series of essays about what really changes once natural language becomes an interface to computation. At first that shift looks like pure liberation: fewer rigid commands, fewer formal barriers, and a much wider audience that can suddenly “program” by speaking in ordinary language. But the moment this freedom becomes useful at scale, the old questions return in a new form: structure, protocol, control, abstraction, governance, consequence, and the strange human urge to rebuild frameworks around every promising new medium.

The series moves through several connected ideas: why freedom quickly recreates formalism one layer higher, why prompting is not quite the same thing as conversation, whether a machine-native control language may sit beneath English prompting, how agent-to-agent communication could evolve beyond human prose, why the best historical analogy for all of this may not be science fiction at all, but the older story of writing hardening into administration, and why MCP changes the question from usefulness to consequence.

These texts are meant less as isolated blog posts and more as one long argument explored from different angles. They are technical where the topic demands it, philosophical where the topic deserves it, and intentionally provocative where the current AI discourse has become too shallow, too euphoric, or too lazy in its metaphors.

Hacking

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:09:40 +0100

Security research, exploit development, and the hacker mindset.

Retrocomputing

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:11:17 +0100

Old machines, forgotten operating systems, and the joy of constraints.

Linux Networking

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Long-form Linux networking field notes from the 90s onward: routing, firewall generations, and operational migration stories.

Electronics

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:09:40 +0100

Circuits, microcontrollers, and solder.

Articles

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Long-form, multi-part works that are better read as coherent series than as isolated posts.

This section gathers the larger arguments, historical threads, and technical narratives that unfold across several connected articles.

Networking

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Musings

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:09:41 +0100

Loosely connected thoughts about technology and life.

Linux

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Linux operations, service migration, and internet-era field notes (1995-2010).

About

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This site is a technical notebook with a deliberately old-school interface.

It looks like a retro text desktop on purpose: constrained layout, visible structure, clear navigation, and very little decorative noise. That style is not nostalgia for its own sake; it is an operational choice. When the interface is predictable, the content stays in focus.

What you can expect here

Field notes from real Linux operations and migrations.
Deep dives into networking, systems behavior, and reliability.
Retrocomputing material where old constraints teach modern engineering discipline.
Security and hacking content centered on process, repeatability, and evidence.
Essays (“Musings”) about interfaces, clarity, and technical communication.

Why it is organized this way

Most content is grouped by topic first, while the larger multi-part works live under Articles. Within each area the tree narrows into subdirectories so menus open fast, directory pages give context, and individual articles stay dense and practical. The goal is to make exploration cheap without turning navigation into a visual maze.

Writing style and scope

Most posts are long-form and technical. They prefer mechanisms over hype, trade-offs over slogans, and concrete examples over abstract claims. If a section is labeled as a musing, expect opinionated analysis; if it is in a technical track, expect implementation detail.

Who this is for

This is for engineers who like to understand systems from first principles, and who value readable, maintainable operations over short-lived tricks.

Mode X Series

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:31:43 +0100

Multi-part series on Mode X graphics techniques in Turbo Pascal.

Toolchain Series

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:31:38 +0100

Multi-part series on Turbo Pascal compilation, linking, overlays, graphics integration, and the transition into Object Pascal, TPW, and Delphi-era workflows.

Turbo Pascal

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:31:31 +0100

Deep-dive Turbo Pascal articles, tutorials, and series.

Blog

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 02:52:02 +0100

Welcome to the Blog.

Microcontrollers

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:42:22 +0100

AVR, ARM, RISC-V and bare-metal programming.

Hardware

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:42:21 +0100

Vintage hardware restoration and archaeology.

DOS

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:42:20 +0100

MS-DOS, FreeDOS, and the real-mode era.

Tools

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:42:18 +0100

Offensive and defensive tooling.

Exploits

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:42:17 +0100

Vulnerability analysis and proof-of-concept exploits.

Migrations

Fri, 21 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Stories and runbooks from moving services from mailbox-era systems to internet-first Linux stacks.

Home Router

Sun, 02 Mar 2003 00:00:00 +0000

A chain of homepage notes about my Linux home router: SuSE 5.3, Teles ISDN, T-Online, DSL waiting, Debian Potato, Woody, and the small hacks around it.

Vibecode

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Experiments and prompt-driven development notes.

Website

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Notes and documents related to this website.

BTW: this site can Link to Sections like this or this and to tags like this or this.

Also this site has a Blog and a blog.