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foxes among the ruins

Law, code, and everything in between. Essays on local AI, privacy, crypto, politics, and the law — plus the build lab and the shelf. One domain, self-hosted, no platform.

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01The Cathedral Has a WorkshopSep 28, 2026

All the writing →

J’ai fait de l’histoire, et je pouvais l’écrire.

I made history, and I could write it.

Chateaubriand — Mémoires d’outre-tombe, Préface testamentaire (1833) · translation mine

Nur wer selbst schreiben kann, liest ein Buch recht.

Only he who can write a book himself reads one right.

Nietzsche — Human, All Too Human

C’est moy que je peins.

It is myself I am painting.

Montaigne — Essays, I.1 (1580)

The lab

2 builds

The hardware and software I'm tinkering with to write these posts. Hardware has become sovereignty. Good software can be liberating. Agents make writing good software fun.

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Build5090 Gaming Rig — Local AI: training and heavy inferenceBuilt · running

BuildFramework 13 Pro — Mobile: field and writing anywherePreorder entered · pending delivery

AnchorMSI GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming Trio OC 32 GB GDDR7

Lab · build status

5090 Gaming Rig9/9

GPUCPUMotherboardCoolerMemoryStoragePSUCase fansCase

Framework 13 Pro1/6

ChassisCPU moduleMemoryStorageBatteryDocks