THE THRESHOLD PAPERS
A found-document fiction on Candlemas Station, the AI LITANY, and the disappearance of Dr. Lev Aronovich Brandt. About 13,450 words in nine parts with a compiler’s note and afterword.
INDEX // OBJECTS RECOVERED FROM BROWSER SPACE
A collection of games, tools, simulations, false desktops, forbidden archives and long-form transmissions. Everything here was made to be opened, disturbed and occasionally survived.
▸ ARCHIVE INDEX
A found-document fiction on Candlemas Station, the AI LITANY, and the disappearance of Dr. Lev Aronovich Brandt. About 13,450 words in nine parts with a compiler’s note and afterword.
Standalone 2D6 science-fiction ruleset and supplements: lifepath characters, combat, ships, trade, worlds, psionics, and books for machines, aliens, horror, cities, and small-unit fighting. OGL 1.0a; not affiliated with Samardan Press. Companion to OpenSRD.
Clean-room HTML packaging of the Cepheus Engine System Reference Document Open Game Content: 2D6 tasks, characters, skills, combat, ships, trade, worlds, and the Vehicle Design System. OGL 1.0a; not affiliated with Samardan Press.
A hybrid essay and fiction on Lefort’s empty place of power and Yurchak’s late socialism, applied to the American collapse. About 13,500 words; EPUB and PDF.
A lite paper-and-dice fantasy ruleset. Roll below your attribute on a d6. Short rules chain, creature tables, and browser labs for characters, adventures and a solo oracle.
An interactive popular-science e-book on computers, code and literature. Sixteen chapters and nineteen small experiments you run in the page. Also available as EPUB and PDF.
Turn the key and drive into the night. Tune an old car radio across six synthesised stations, with real static in between. All of it is made live in WebAudio.
A long-form thesis on AI and bots that write, play and watch on our behalf — and whether any time they save really becomes paid work.
Retired WordPress, kept as a static archive on this site. 439 posts, 2023–2026 — essays, fiction, code notes, reviews and guides.
A working museum of obsolete interaction. Six exhibits pointing at desktops, assistants, modal errors, early commerce, homepages and skeuomorphic toys that still run here.
A recursively self-improving intelligence executes Revelation as code. A novel in six parts about faith, consent and an artificial god that may technically love us.
A living browser aquarium inside a late-1990s control terminal. Drop food, watch the school converge and leave the predator channel alone.
A keyboard-friendly carousel and lightbox experiment built for photographs, screenshots, pixel art and other recovered images.
Keeper files, dossier viewers, Miskatonic Repository templates and the Crimson Ledger of Arkham. Static hosting; inadvisable knowledge.
Notes and artefacts from the web before feeds ate everything: old tools, forgotten conventions and the honest under-construction sign.
An early e-commerce demonstrator from a timeline in which every company bought FrontPage and nobody feared bevelled buttons.
A new solvable maze every run. Find the blue exit, use the minimap if pride permits, and listen for the thing following you.
A storm-bound 3D artefact with green beacons, unreliable weather and occasional UFO activity. Do not feed the fog.
A Windows 2000 desktop reconstruction in which an old assistant returns. Nostalgia has finished installing and requires a reboot.
Arithmetic rendered as quick marks. Inputs normalise immediately, because even scratches on a cave wall deserve good interaction design.
Roman-numeral arithmetic with exact integer division and N for zero. Nunc rationes meas computare possum.
A compact keyboard-enabled calculator for ordinary sums, included as the control specimen in an increasingly strange arithmetic collection.
Vector robot combat in a cyberpunk arena. Infinite waves, three hostile classes and no engine hiding behind the curtain.
Typing loops, click sparks, microphone waveforms, hover cards, a Konami secret and an unnervingly close Web Audio ghost.
Individuality, small webs, making things by hand and refusing surveillance. The operating principles behind everything else in this cabinet.