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.

Electronics

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

Circuits, microcontrollers, and solder.

Musings

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

Loosely connected thoughts about technology and life.

About

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

Meta content, project notes, and background material.

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.

Linux

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

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

Networking

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

Linux networking from the 90s onward: routing, firewall generations, and operational migration stories.

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.

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