Dispatches, field reports, editor’s notes — everything from the working world and the product company building for it.
A proposal for industrial recovery across the Anglosphere. Not a plan for a single business — a protocol for spawning regional entities that serve producers and processors of hard goods.
ZAKO is a sovereign mobile operating system. Every interaction it mediates is a conservation event with two sides that must balance and must be provable. Built on AOSP without Google Mobile Services, governed by Outst...
ZAKO is a sovereign mobile operating system. Every interaction it mediates is a conservation event with two sides that must balance and must be provable. Bui...
Workwarrior wraps five open-source tools — TaskWarrior, TimeWarrior, JRNL, Hledger, and Bugwarrior — into a single profile-based productivity system. Each pr...
Works is an industrial compound for business information. The metaphor is intentional and load-bearing: a works — in the Victorian sense, a textile works, an...
Workpads is a field notebook for the working world. It pairs structured forms with photos, audio recordings, and signoffs so that a single pass through a sit...
Telux is a proposed operating system — or OS layer — whose byline is "System for Group Exchange." It unifies three capabilities that no existing operating sy...
.tel is the connective layer for Babb. It provides identity, routing, and channels for people who do work in the world.
SIMBA is a standard in the Babb family of protocols and specifications, part of the broader architecture Babb is building for long-lived, interoperable busin...
Outstack is an Alpine Linux derivative focused on two unified concerns: security and power management. It treats both as expressions of resource control — a ...
heybabb is a command-line companion for Babb Works. It answers questions about what Babb is building, explains how each tool works, and reports on current de...
Clarkware is the Clark Industrial Process Environment — a manufacturing facility operations platform. It gives technicians, supervisors, and integrated tools...
BitPads is a universal binary communication protocol. It encodes structured records — from a single heartbeat byte to a fully identified, timestamped, valued...
BitLedger is a compact binary transmission protocol for double-entry financial records. It encodes the structural balance invariant — every debit has a match...
BASICS — Business Assistance System — is a practical standard for building business tools that can operate across unstable conditions, constrained devices, m...
BitLedger v0.1.0 is the first formal release of the compact binary transmission protocol for double-entry financial records — encoding the structural balance...
BitPads Protocol v0.1.0 is the first formal release of the open binary encoding standard that underlies Workpads — a compact representation optimized for con...
Workwarrior v0.1.0 is the first formal release of the unified terminal productivity environment — integrating Taskwarrior, Timewarrior, JRNL, Hledger, and Bu...
Workpads v0.1.0 is the first public release of the PADS job-record system — a mobile-first tool for field service and trades teams that keeps coordination ce...
Version 0.1.0 of the BASICS Standard is now published. This initial release establishes stable rule identifiers and profile boundaries for the framework — a ...