Independent web experiments · since 2005

Abnormal
by design.

Systems confess. People narrate themselves. Ideas become places you can enter.

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Ixens

Technical entities speaking in first person.

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  1. The Clock That Is Never Questioned

    A server's system clock narrates drift, offset, NTP strata and algorithms, chrony discipline, PTP hardware timestamps, leap-second smearing, and why distributed systems collapse when time lies.

  2. I Am Told When To Run

    The generate-ixens swamp workflow narrates its own execution: DAG topology, vault secrets, CEL wiring, model zoo, and the recursive horror of generating the ixen that documents the thing that generated it.

  3. Abnormalia. Un nome. Pochi fatti.

    Abnormalia narrates its own mutations: Amiga diskmag, handmade web, social ghost, I-Xen ancestor, and generated ixens.

  4. Reachable Until I'm Not

    A repository narrates objects, refs, the index, merges, rebases, remotes, maintenance, and recovery.

  5. Desired State

    The catalog speaks about resources, edges, facts, and the quiet violence of convergence.

  6. Below the Operating System

    The host narrates Xen's domain model, CPU, memory, I/O, device isolation, migration, and failure boundaries.

I Am

Lives retold from inside the subject.

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  1. I Am the Equation

    Albert Einstein speaks in first person present tense: relativity, exile, conscience, and the unfinished search.

  2. I Am the Trial

    Franz Kafka speaks in first person — the trial, the letter, the bureau, the burning.