Software, operating systems, telephone networks, websites, hardware projects, fictional countries and a frankly unreasonable amount of infrastructure.
$ whoami
WurstMonke
$ cat interests.txt
software
telecom
hardware
history
languages
world-building
$ status
busy building something
█I like taking things apart, figuring out how they work, and then making my own version.
I'm WurstMonke — a developer, tinkerer and general technology enthusiast. A lot of my projects start with one question: “Could I actually build that?”
Sometimes the answer becomes software. Sometimes it becomes a telephone system, an operating system, a website, a broadcast station, a home server, or an unnecessarily elaborate micronational infrastructure project.
I enjoy old technology just as much as new technology. Vintage computers, Linux, SIP phones, modern web development, programming languages and experimental hardware can all end up on the same desk.
My largest ongoing world-building and infrastructure project: a complete micronational ecosystem with a constitution, government, ministries, citizenship systems, currency, diplomacy, websites, telecommunications, broadcasting and digital services.
An experimental Linux distribution built around Lithoria, including its own identity, visual language and system concepts. Part of a broader obsession with making operating systems feel like complete environments.
An operating-system experiment written around a C kernel with a Python REPL/editor concept. A project about learning what happens underneath the desktop instead of just using one.
A shell and language experiment that grew out of the same interest in building computing environments from scratch rather than treating the command line as a black box.
The Inter-Micronational Telecommunications Union — a framework for connecting micronational telecom systems, numbering plans and communications infrastructure.
A real telephone lab built around Issabel and Asterisk, with SIP phones, trunks, IVRs, ring groups, music-on-hold and a collection of old and modern telephony hardware.
Experiments in building a small national broadcasting ecosystem — online television, audio streaming, station infrastructure and the systems needed to keep it running.
A deliberately weird music-on-hold and audio-broadcasting experiment, tied into the wider PBX and streaming setup. One of those projects that exists mostly because it was possible.
A Lithorian space-agency concept centered around a mission-control simulator and physical Raspberry Pi hardware — turning a fictional space program into something you can actually interact with.
A portable offline computing and communications concept built around a Polycom Mobile Responder, Raspberry Pi, local knowledge, private networking and removable storage.
A constructed language project combining influences from Ancient and Modern Greek, German and English, with its own phonology, vocabulary and evolving grammar.
Keeping older machines useful: Windows 2000 systems, Red Star OS experiments, dial-up networking and learning what computing looked like before everything became a browser tab.
A full point-of-sale interface experiment with menus, kiosk ordering, admin tools, reports, earnings data and export functionality — built as a complete working web application.
A growing collection of interconnected services: government portals, MWW/intranet concepts, LithBank, citizen systems, archives, emergency alerts, weather, aviation and other national services.
German, Greek, Bosnian and experiments with constructed and historical languages.
Ancient history, modern history, old technology and the stories behind the things we use.
Telephone networks, numbering plans, SIP, radio, dial-up and communications infrastructure.
Old computers, phones, servers, networking equipment and turning random hardware into useful projects.
Creating places, institutions, languages, systems and entire worlds with enough detail to actually work.
If it can be built, modified, repaired, programmed or unnecessarily over-engineered, I'm interested.
If I don't know how it works, that's usually a pretty good reason to find out.— WurstMonke
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