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What is RANDOBLOG?

Most of what's in my head at any given time has no business staying there. Sensor architectures for detecting things that probably don't exist, monetary policy arguments with myself at 3 AM, half-finished propulsion math on the back of a grocery receipt. RANDOBLOG is where all of that goes so I can stop thinking about it and move on to the next thing I won't finish.

Nothing here is peer-reviewed. Some of it is probably wrong. The point was never to be authoritative. It's a pressure valve for the kind of thinking that doesn't fit neatly into a job description or a conversation at a party. Occasionally a piece of it escapes and turns into something buildable, which is what the projects below are.

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Projects
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Subject matter

What shows up here

Three loose buckets. The overlap between them is where most of the writing actually happens.

Money

Bitcoin, monetary theory, and what happens to a debt-based system when the productivity gains stop showing up in wages.

Machines

AI as civilizational infrastructure rather than product. Agents, labor displacement, and who ends up holding the settlement layer.

Everything else

Physics, propulsion math, sensor architectures, UAP, consciousness, and whatever else refuses to leave me alone at 3 AM.

Built

Projects

Things that made it out of the notebook. Most of them started as an argument I lost with myself and ended as something you can open in a browser.

airship.diy

New

An open engineering notebook for the smallest hydrogen airship a competent person could build in a shop and then never land. The physics is gated against ships that actually flew: the buoyancy model reproduces the Hindenburg and the Macon to within 2 percent, which is also how it establishes that gas purity is a first-order term rather than a refinement. Energy turns out not to be the binding constraint (the solar loop closes with a 539 percent annual margin, and lift makeup is under 2 percent of demand). Structure is, and phase 3 remains undecided, which the notebook says out loud instead of rendering around.

AerostaticsOpen hardwareSolar

nband.space

New

An open multi-spectral sensing platform. A buildable node that watches the sky across as many as thirteen bands at once, disciplines its clock against GNSS to a few hundred nanoseconds so cross-band coincidence is a measurement rather than a figure of speech, and publishes everything it records. The top of the classification ladder is "unresolved". The schema has no way to encode "artificial", and that is deliberate.

SensingOpen hardwareUAP

oapogee.space

New

An open source telemetry payload for model rockets, and the documentation that teaches you to build one. Altitude, acceleration and orientation logged to onboard flash through a flight, optionally downlinked over LoRa with GNSS position for recovery. One rule governs the whole project: never publish a number that has not been measured or sourced. Which is why the bill of materials currently has no prices in it.

TelemetryRocketryOpen hardware

ochk.io

OrangeCheck: a Bitcoin-native proof of skin in the game. Sign a message with an address you control and anyone can verify your bonded sats and how long they have sat, straight from public chain data. No accounts, no custody, nothing to trust.

Proof of reservesSignatures

btcar.app

Point your camera at any price tag and see its Bitcoin value in place. Real-time OCR with an AR overlay, all processing on-device. Nothing leaves the phone.

AROn-device OCR

hodl.pub

100 Bitcoin rules to live by. Self-custody, operational security, monetary philosophy, and the ideological foundations of money nobody can print.

Self-custodyMonetary theory

atypic.ai

Managed AI agent automations for enterprise. Deployment and operation at scale, handled end to end, so large organizations can automate complex workflows without standing up the infrastructure themselves.

AgentsEnterprise

sentio.bot

A 3D interactive simulation for modeling consciousness. Adjust information integration and self-referential processing and watch how the resulting scores move across different systems.

Consciousness3D simulation

job.rip

A satirical "AI Labor Transition Authority" that performs career autopsies on your job title. Enter your profession, receive a darkly comedic report on how the machines intend to replace you. The joke has aged worse than expected.

SatireLabor

apophis.bot

An interactive 3D orbital simulator for asteroid 99942 Apophis, built around the 2029 close approach that threads the needle between Earth and the geostationary belt.

Orbital mechanics3D

onon.me

A private, local-first personal vault. Tag, save, and organize fragments of thought without handing your data to anyone. Everything stays on your device.

Local-firstPrivacy

globb.bot

A canvas-based interactive visualization. Best experienced rather than explained.

CanvasGenerative

How it's made

Colophon

Stack

Astro and Tailwind, statically generated, deployed to GitHub Pages on every push to main. No database, no comments, no newsletter modal.

Math

Full LaTeX rendering via KaTeX. If you can't put an equation in it, what's the point.

Source

Every article links to its markdown on GitHub, synced on push, so bad ideas get corrected in public.

Elsewhere

Find me

Encrypted mail goes to wil@ochk.io. The public key and its fingerprint are on the PGP page.