the cyberpunk’s field manual. not guides. not essays. something in between. process notes | platform reflections | infrastructure decisions | the lived experience of building sovereignty in practice.
this is the lab. things break here. tools get evaluated, replaced, or abandoned. threat models get tested against reality. the philosophy meets the terminal.
read it as a record of the work in progress.
real setups, not tutorials. each one lands as its own note.
This is part of an ongoing series of notes on tools I build for my own infrastructure. Not polished products. Working software.
It started as a what-is-my-ip page.
That is how these things start. You want something simple, you build it in an afternoon, and then you start pulling on the thread. Every pull reveals something you did not know you were missing. The afternoon becomes a week. The what-is-my-ip becomes something else entirely.
This is not a tutorial. It is a record of what is running, why it is running, and what it took to get there. The lab changes. This note changes with it.
This note is updated as the lab changes. Last updated: 03 Jun 2026.
I am not going to go back to the beginning. What matters is where things are now, and what led to the current shape.