https://manuel.teknios.tech/ Manuel Rodriguez — systems architect. A register of work, projects, principles, papers and notes on software built around data other people can’t afford to get wrong. en https://manuel.teknios.tech/projects/this-site https://manuel.teknios.tech/projects/this-site Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Projects A register, not a portfolio. One authoritative source for the facts about me — referenced rather than copied — on a margin rule, built with SvelteKit and served as static files from Cloudflare Pages. https://manuel.teknios.tech/writing/a-public-record https://manuel.teknios.tech/writing/a-public-record Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Writing Why this site is a register rather than a portfolio, and why I’m keeping it in the open. https://manuel.teknios.tech/writing/the-binding-name-contract https://manuel.teknios.tech/writing/the-binding-name-contract Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Writing A deploy that succeeds and a form that returns 500 on every submit — a small lesson about two strings that must agree and no tool that checks. https://manuel.teknios.tech/papers/computation-data-and-agent-dynamics https://manuel.teknios.tech/papers/computation-data-and-agent-dynamics Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Papers A framework that models data, computation and agent dynamics from physical first principles, without importing institutions, laws or social structures as primitives. Thirty-one axioms, thirty-four theorems, seven irreducible tensions and the tenets that follow — the structural equilibrium of externalized data is extraction; the remedy is optionality preservation, and non-externalization where it can be afforded. https://manuel.teknios.tech/projects/go-crap-and-gen-contract https://manuel.teknios.tech/projects/go-crap-and-gen-contract Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Projects Two tools written for Nexus. go-crap is a CRAP-score and mutation-testing CLI used to drive every module to complexity and coverage bars; gen-contract is an annotation-driven API-contract and OpenAPI generator, enforced in CI. https://manuel.teknios.tech/hobbies/desktop https://manuel.teknios.tech/hobbies/desktop Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Hobbies Arch, Hyprland, and a keyboard-driven desktop that I keep adjusting long after it's "done". https://manuel.teknios.tech/papers/first-principles-framework-for-computational-system-architecture https://manuel.teknios.tech/papers/first-principles-framework-for-computational-system-architecture Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Papers Vocabulary and predictions for where platforms form — definitions → axioms → theorems → hypotheses, with an extension for human-facing systems. Platform boundaries form where net complexity reduction is maximal (H1); an abstraction layer pays only when the complexity it saves exceeds its own cost plus the expressiveness lost (T18). The architectural basis of Nexus and of BC’s connected-services rationale. https://manuel.teknios.tech/papers/montauk-protocol https://manuel.teknios.tech/papers/montauk-protocol Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Papers Secure, private peer-to-peer connections over IPv6 using cryptographically generated rotating network addresses. Two parties sharing a secret independently compute identical connection endpoints; unauthorized parties face a computationally infeasible search space. Connection privacy, mutual authentication, forward secrecy and granular access control, with no centralized infrastructure. https://manuel.teknios.tech/projects/nexus https://manuel.teknios.tech/projects/nexus Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Projects A self-hosted household computing platform — a physical appliance that gives a family shared identity, photos and documents, applications and private AI agents without surrendering their data to a cloud. Built solo, bare metal to a stranger-installable appliance, in six months. https://manuel.teknios.tech/projects/household-memory-gen-1 https://manuel.teknios.tech/projects/household-memory-gen-1 Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Projects The first cut at a household data layer — the platform owned the bytes behind a custom API and a forked Immich. Abandoned, and later retrodicted by the platform-formation framework: the byte layer is exactly where the abstraction inequality fails. https://manuel.teknios.tech/projects/home-cluster https://manuel.teknios.tech/projects/home-cluster Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT Projects A hand-built three-node cluster that ran the house for two years before Nexus’s first commit — the testbed that turned a conviction into a product spec. https://manuel.teknios.tech/projects/neuron-simulator https://manuel.teknios.tech/projects/neuron-simulator Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT Projects A C++/Qt simulator of neuronal electrical activity, built from scratch for the University of Oklahoma biology department on the Huguenard–McCormick equations; used in teaching and research at several universities. https://manuel.teknios.tech/projects/android-app https://manuel.teknios.tech/projects/android-app Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT Projects Independent Android development during graduate school — a startup’s app shipped to 2,000+ users.