pospi - digital fragments, facets and reflections of a tangible human in progress

digital fragments, facets and reflections of a tangible human in progress

Epoch 01 2005 — 2008

ludic explosions & novel interactions

In the distant past, this website began as a university assessment piece for a digital portfolio; the design of which is now lost to time. All my teenage self really wanted to do with their life was make computer games, and so most of the projects archived here are of that nature. Many of these works contorted themselves into assessment criteria to validate their creation through the lens of academia.

Other than that this era is mostly just intermittent shitposting before shitposting was a thing.

Epoch 02 2008 — 2014

open-source hobbying

In this stream of after-hours hacking it became semi-common for me to detail technical processes and document patterns that I hoped others would find useful. Here's a few:

There is also a selection of random code libraries from this era with sometimes a little commentary and a demo about them; from a time before dumping git repositories on social coding websites became the norm.
All Libs and Apps

Epoch 03 2014 — 2018

‘saving the world’ with distributed systems

This period of my life begins with a foray into digital privacy activism, which has propelled me into many online communities since. Despite subsequent shifts in awareness and belonging, refusal of surveillance capitalism remains a unifying theme in my online and offline collaborations.

My work begins to get more political, and I soon discover that transcribing discussions on metadata surveillance is grounds for having your website banned in Australian parliament.

I am also rather fond of my misguided Ethereum manifesto. This grandiose post remains a joyful bait-and-switch for the crypto bros who began flocking to it via XTwitter after the fascist takeover. With hindsight's newly added preamble for context, my hope is to contrast privileged youthful idealism with the cynical wisdom of age and painfully lived experience.

Epoch 04 2018 — ???

tech is not the answer

Crises of faith and cycles of disillusionment working and living within Web3, 'regenerative finance' and systems change movements leads me necessarily to refute all suggestions of techno-solutionism. From altercations with movement gurus and their uneasy resolutions to facing issues of structural oppression, this chapter is where my 'real work' begins.

Whilst boycotting is sometimes the only option, real change is found living into shared practises of solidarity. Socially complex topics come interspersed with a hopeful outlook toward new ways of thinking, interacting and being; with occasional tech projects like hREA and organisations like Economikit as artefacts along the way.