SURVIVAL APPSCyberpunk / Survival
The identity space: aesthetics, themed hardware, projects like the Zoltar machine. Hardware · Arduino · Aesthetics.
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The music that stays on when I'm not there
42-minute ambient loops to leave running while you work — the latest three, just uploaded to the Survival Apps YouTube channel.
I Power It All Up and See If It Holds
My own web interface for the LoRa tracker, tested live: what it shows, what it's for, and why it sometimes beats a phone app.
The neighborhood is the first survival network
Before a bunker or a mesh radio, your real survival network is your neighborhood: the people you know in person, on your own block.
A radio that asks nobody's permission
The Wio Tracker L1 Pro arrived with Meshtastic firmware: unboxing, first tests on the Lombardy mesh, and a local web app to run it from my desk.
Commodore 77: The Past Comes Back Dressed as Night City
The Commodore 64 Ultimate meets Cyberpunk 2077 in a special edition announced at Gamescom 2026. A field note on why this retro rebirth matters to me.
Solar eclipse: why a darkening sky isn't the end of the world
The August 12, 2026 solar eclipse without the panic filter: an omen of doom for millennia, yet an event that destroys nothing.
Neuromancer: the book that wrote the aesthetic of Survival Apps
Why William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984) is the book that shaped this blog's technical and visual imagination more than any other, read through a personal lens.
War Zones — the world's conflicts, read by someone who builds
A reasoned map of today's conflicts, the weight of the USA, Russia and China, and why it makes more sense to build than to destroy.
Meshtastic: the network that doesn't need the internet to exist
What Meshtastic is, how a LoRa mesh network works with no towers or SIM cards, and three flagship hardware nodes for building your own off-grid comms network.
Waste and redundancy: what to throw out and what to keep in duplicate
In survival, redundancy is life; in computing it's often dead weight. Learn to tell the waste you should cut from the redundancy that saves your day.
What Is Cyberpunk Aesthetics (and Why It's Not Just Neon and Rain)
What "cyberpunk" means and which elements make an image recognizable: high tech, low life, neon and urban decay. A plain-language guide.
Compulsive Scrolling: Inside the Infinite Feed
What compulsive scrolling (doomscrolling) is, why the infinite feed hooks us, and how to get out, seen from the side of the people who build the apps.
"Zoltar: Design and Schematics Before I Get My Hands Dirty"
Part two of Zoltar: from concept to block diagram. Why the brain moves from Arduino to Raspberry Pi, and the thermal printer that delivers the verdict.
Field cyberdeck: concept and parts list for a grid-down scenario
Build log part one: what a cyberdeck is, the constraints of a world with no power grid or internet, and the parts I picked to build a field-ready one.
Zoltar: the Idea of a Cyberpunk Oracle Born from a Recycled Aquarium
Zone 3's founding project: turning the remains of a decommissioned aquarium into a mechanical oracle inspired by carnival fortune-teller machines.