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The Lab Manual (Tech/Science Fiction)

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Hard Sci-Fi & Harder Hardware--serialized fiction and the tech stack behind it.

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Where the Sky Ends - Preview

Context: This is the first chapter from the science fiction novella “Where the Sky Ends”. It takes place in the Salvage Diaries universe, but is a standalone read. There shouldn’t be any lore gaps. I have published this online before, but I...

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Welcome to the Lab Manual.

Two tracks run through this SubStack: Fiction, and Homelab. Both tracks ask the same question: who owns the stack?


The Fiction Track

“The Salvage Diaries” is a serialized science fiction thriller. A space opera with a infrastru...

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A Guide to Factions

As the first volume of The Salvage Diaries concludes, here is another guide to the lore that shapes the setting of my science fiction series. If you think that this is way too much for one novel, you are right, because more installments are...

13 days ago
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Chapter 63: Hook, Line and Sinker


The Salvage Diaries: Whispers

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63: Hook, Line and Sinker, where the war ends and the trap snaps shut.

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Local Diffusion: Inpainting and ControlNet

I was recently shocked to realize that people are still unaware that Krita exists. Not “haven’t heard of it”, proper unaware. Like it’s some obscure hobby project rather than a FOSS digital art suite that’s been around for two decades, comp...

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