Oofytronic
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About

Hello, I'm Oofytronic

I write and build at the frontier of distributed, decentralized and local-first technology.

Hello

Oofytronic is my name for the work: essays, experiments and tools about technology that serves the people who use it.

I'm interested in the systems that let people keep control of their software, their data and their identity, and in the ones that quietly take it away. This site is where I think in public about both, and where I keep the projects I'm building along the way.

Start with the writing if you want the arguments, or the projects if you want to see things being built.

What I write about

The edges where control is being contested.

  • Local-first software and the tools that make it practical
  • Peer-to-peer and decentralized networks
  • Cryptography, crypto and web3
  • Automation and the agents that increasingly do it
  • AI, including models you can run yourself

What I hold to

A few convictions that show up in everything I write and build.

  1. Own your data

    Software should keep working, and keep your data yours, even when the company behind it does not.

  2. Hold your own keys

    Identity and money belong to the person, not to the platform that happens to host them.

  3. Protocols over platforms

    Build on open protocols that anyone can implement, so leaving never means losing everything.

  4. Automate with accountability

    Let machines do the drudgery, but keep every action visible and every irreversible step in human hands.

About this site

Built the way I'd argue software should be.

It is plain HTML, CSS and a little JavaScript, written in a functional style, with no build step and no framework. It has no analytics, ads or cookies, and every page works with JavaScript turned off. Fonts currently load from Google Fonts; self-hosting them is on the list.

The floating panels around the content respond to where you are on the page. They follow your system's reduced-motion setting, and the toggle in the footer turns them off entirely. How they work, along with the colours, type and components, is documented in the design system.