bermansplaining.com

bermansplaining

foxes among the ruins

Law, code, and everything in between. Essays on local AI, privacy, crypto, politics, and the law — plus the build lab and the shelf. One domain, self-hosted, no platform.

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01The Cathedral Has a WorkshopSep 28, 2026

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J’ai fait de l’histoire, et je pouvais l’écrire.

I made history, and I could write it.

Chateaubriand — Mémoires d’outre-tombe, Préface testamentaire (1833) · translation mine

Nur wer selbst schreiben kann, liest ein Buch recht.

Only he who can write a book himself reads one right.

Nietzsche — Human, All Too Human

C’est moy que je peins.

It is myself I am painting.

Montaigne — Essays, I.1 (1580)

The lab

4 machines

The hardware and software I'm tinkering with to write these posts. Hardware has become sovereignty. Good software can be liberating. Agents make writing good software fun.

$ lab --machines
  5090 Gaming Rig                     Built · running
  Framework 13 Pro                    Preordered · pending delivery
  Homelab                             Not built
  Urbit Native Planet, Telluride 2.0  To revive

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Machine5090 Gaming Rig — Local AI: training and heavy inferenceBuilt · running

MachineFramework 13 Pro — Mobile: field and writing anywherePreordered · pending delivery

MachineHomelab — What it runs, where it lives, and whether it earns its power bill.Not built

MachineUrbit Native Planet, Telluride 2.0 — A Native Planet box to put back to work as an Urbit node.To revive

Projects

0 projects

The first projects land here: vibe-coded apps and tools, each with a live link and a writeup when one exists.

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