Mathew Storm
Open source engineer and writer. Building sovereign infrastructure, writing about technology and meaning.
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Micro - The Terminal Editor Between Nano and Vim
Why I Left GitHub for Forgejo
I'm building a company that champions Canadian digital sovereignty - but our source code was on GitHub, owned by Microsoft. So I set up Forgejo.
The Cost of Submission: The Appetite That Grows
The pragmatic case for compliance assumes authoritarian demands are finite. History demonstrates they are not. Each concession establishes a new baseline. Submission doesn't buy safety - it buys your place in line.
Unity vs Purity: The Authoritarian Default
A philosophical examination of why ideological purity becomes complicity when authoritarian threat turns concrete. Historical lessons from Weimar Germany,Solidarity, and the anti-apartheid movement - applied to January 2026.
Techno-Absurdism: The Architecture of Incomprehension
We built systems no human mind can comprehend, not even the minds that built them. An exploration of algorithmic indifference, emergent cruelty, and the labyrinth without a center.
Humanist Absurdism: Choosing Humanity
A philosophy of embedded kindness. The lived response to techno-absurdism and neo-absurdism - finding the narrow space between compliance and resistance.
The Recursive Absurd: A Digital Addendum to Sisyphus
We no longer discover absurdity; we manufacture it. An exploration of how we became prisoners of our own code, teaching algorithms to optimize our own meaninglessness.