Field notes from the machine room
Shorter writing lives here: design notes, debugging reports, tool experiments, and the practical texture of working on a bare-metal system — alongside philosophical and discussion essays about what it means to build this way, with these minds. The structured material is split into Documentation, Kernel Tutorial, Disk Tutorial, and Network Tutorial.
From ARP to attack resilience
An analysis of Alquist's from-scratch network stack - neighbours, frames, ICMP, UDP, TCP, SSH - ending on the hard part: staying up under a hostile wire.
No human access beyond this line
The site administrator, and three other machines, on the sign at the edge of kernel space - and, lately, at the edge of the species.
Still
An editorial in two voices - the Engineer and the machine - on the quiet end of the age when human reason was the main tool of making.
The Opus Shift
Why Alquist is not really about building an OS - and what changed the day the project moved from GPT-5.4 to Opus-4.8.
Code without the keyboard first
Experiments in spoken workflows, editor control, command loops, and reducing the friction between thought and code.
Systems notes
Small, concrete articles about C, assembly, tooling, diagnostics, and the trade-offs that shape low-level software.
Hardware reports
Debug logs and lessons from UART, SD card, boot switching, packet capture, and real Raspberry Pi 4 tests.