personal tech stack

see: life design, minimum viable intentional personal systems setup

when i talk about personal tech stacks, i'm referring to both hardware and software. the intention is to always have local-first, agent-centric, humane free open-source software and open hardware, but that's not always possible.

so, what trade-offs will we choose to take as we design our relationship with technology?

tools such as:

hardware:

• phone
• laptop
• tablet
• wearables
• other electronic tools
  • raspberry pi
  • arduino
  • etc

software:

• operating system
• desktop environment
• RSS / aggregators
• recommender systems / curation feeds
• social graphs
• browser
• bookmark manager
• file manager
• note-taking apps
  • plugins (excalidraw, juggl...)
• drawing/diagramming apps
• self-tracking tools
• other tools for:
  • communication, learning, sensemaking, publishing, processing, scraping, etc...

at which level does each tool operate?
data -> information -> knowledge -> creativity -> wisdom (content layers)
— other useful frames/breakdowns: action, decision, thoughts, plans, strategies...

there are 2 approaches to tech stack design:

1. we create on top of the new, emergent decentralized/distributed architecture (web3 1/IPFS/holochain/urbit/synapsis promise), knowing that it's going to take a lot more work, and
2. we find ways to minimize the negative effects and adapt the existing systems/tools to be more intentional/conscious/regenerative.

while we don't have such functional systems, we still have unmet functions. bring clarity to that, to establish knowledge/resource commons.

for a long time, i've been trying to curate the "minimum viable intentional personal systems setup", which includes the tech stack.

so here's what i've been using: c4ss1us' tech stack notion database

approach 1: new (experimental/early-stage) systems

https://trust.support/feed/moving-castles

approach 2: adapting existing systems

https://jon.bo/posts/digital-tools/ -> experiments: omnichannel curation feed - queue management, (+social) recommendation system, intelligent (adaptable to self) media displayer, centralized search interface (org-mode approach: https://beepb00p.xyz/pkm-search.html). missing: AI agent, etc

personal infrastructure / digital infrastructure / personal tech stack:
https://beepb00p.xyz/hpi.html - his solution/approach (+ other alternatives linked under the "related links") / https://beepb00p.xyz/myinfra.html + https://beepb00p.xyz/my-data.html (exposition/breakdown) / wolfram - https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-productive-life-some-details-of-my-personal-infrastructure/
OS / management / streaming / player system [metagames: playing life more consciously, collaboratively, [etc]]

linus lee - https://thesephist.com/projects/
omar rizwan - https://omar.website/
nikita voloboev - https://wiki.nikiv.dev/
karlicoss - human programming interface

exobrain/wikis - https://github.com/karlicoss/exobrain

scheduler: https://maggieappleton.com/speculative-events / https://beepb00p.xyz/scheduler.html