recently liberated from n5. they let me go right before launching (and rapidly un-launching) a product that my due diligence flagged as a regulatory time bomb. i’m taking that as a sign to keep my seven-day workweeks focused on building things that don’t violate federal law — specifically pushing forward on brane and destroysaas.coop.

shipping OSS: destroysaas (business portal where SMBs stop renting software and start owning it. propose a problem, recruit peers, form a cell — a legally-backed cooperative that funds and owns the software forever. Wyoming LCA + DAO governance. live at destroysaas.coop), bunny (a dark factory. ai agents build software autonomously — claude implements, gemini hardens, humans intervene only when stuck. bny specify, bny plan, bny tasks, bny implement --ralph. not a framework — a template you clone and build on), brane (local-first semantic knowledge graph — encode ethics, architecture constraints, and policies as machine-verifiable Datalog rules. split-brain SQLite + CozoDB), xenv (lightweight secrets manager for AI coding agents — AES-256-GCM encrypted vaults safe to commit, decrypted secrets never touch disk, built-in MCP server for Claude Code/Cursor/Windsurf, zero deps single binary), gh-lockbox (stateless secret recovery via GitHub Actions), gh-blob (unlimited blob storage in GitHub), pbj (universal encrypted clipboard), bx (tmux session manager), tc (language-agnostic testing). 182 public repos and counting. https://github.com/ahoward

researching AI-executable architecture — what happens when you stop writing code and start writing intent. mother is a TypeScript DSL where developers declare system boundaries, intents, and contracts, and AI agents generate the implementations. tree-sitter extracts topology, NATS routes events, a validator enforces that leaf nodes fulfill their contracts. one binary, zero deps. the central nervous system for AI-native distributed systems.

the through-line: humans declare intent, machines generate implementations, validators enforce contracts. from semantic knowledge graphs to executable architecture DSLs to cooperative ownership — the same pattern at every scale. ethics without enforcement is theater. tests are scripture, code is sand, architecture is prophecy. everything else burns.

leg’s a POS but kinda back in the mountains after 3 years, a f!ck ton of crutch work, many surgeries, many pain, much sauna, lotta PT… it continues to be slow and painful.

quietly building mountainhigh.codes - still stealth mode, still not taking clients, still building from weird places. like cabeese (plural of caboose and busen

married my jess ❤️

super digging this.

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