Fragments

Building the layer beneath everything else, from a blank screen and a blinking cursor, one working piece at a time. Rime is a hobbyist operating system written from scratch for a single old netbook, and the writing collected here follows it: bootloaders, memory management, scheduling, interrupts, and the encrypted filesysteem now underneath it all.

An ongoing Fragment about a mid-2005 12inch Apple iBook G4: a machine restored, maintained, and still used beyond the era it was built for. Through essays on hardware, software, games, obsolete networks, upgrades, and memory, the Fragment explores what remains when old machines continue operating long after the worlds around them have changed.

A story in several chapters, set four light-years from Earth in the first years of a colony. The people who landed remember a planet their grandchildren will not. Proxima is about what they keep, what they lose, and the story will end up telling themselves about how it all began.