salba.space

About:

After years of having too many online accounts and dealing with different platform issues, I have decided to just host my own email server and website. To go back to basics and host it all myself.

Effectively, this increases my Data Soverignty; something that a third-party can never guarentee (due to Principal-Agency). I encourage others to do the same, and walk away from algorithmic feeds that don't have your best interests at heart.

The website functions as a repository of my interests and work that I have done. For now, my interests include hobby repair/engineering, software programming, landscape photography, creative writing, hiking, photoshop, cryptography, reading, minimal living... and of course cognitive/digital security.

Experience, Focus & Expertise:

I'm not going to make any direct claims about this, as self-awarded competence and lists of credentials has almost no evidentiary value to others. This is why LinkedIn and job resumes are nearly worthless.

Proof of any competancies comes from the problems one has solved, and the work they have done. See my sections below, and judge for yourself.

Code Projects:

I am currently moving my code projects to Radicle - but this is a work in progress.

Writing/Blogging:

Understanding "The Last Economy": An in depth review of the book (by Emad Mostaque), and its implications for the near future.
Foundations of Digital Sovereignty: Using hard-earned wisdom from years of internet usage - a basis for Digital Sovereignty is defined.
On Finding a Real Future: Against fake futures, and strategies for dealing with tech acceleration.
On Mark Laita's Painful Conclusion: You probably can't help the homeless (bring them back to society, that is).

Photography:

I enjoy hiking and landscape photography, with an increasing focus on the Highlands and Western Scotland. Below are some photos I have taken over the years.

Galloway Forest Park: Images from two hiking excursions up Curlywee and Muldonnoch hills.
Solway Coast: Various Images taken along the Solway Coast (Annan, Powfoot, and Brow Well areas).
Hamilton Infrastructure: Picures of the old CHCH TV Tower, and Hamilton Shore.
Leslie Street Spit (Toronto): A man-made headway (island) of used construction materials - which symbolizes the empty soul of Toronto.

About this Page:

Background Photo: "Day Meets Night", taken by Andrew Campbell-Jones. VeraType and Spectral fonts are used for titles and text.

This is a largely static nginx website. I use pandoc/python scripts to convert markdown to html (with templates for the sections). Some javascript extension libraries are used for dynamic content.

Click here to contact me.