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flux.vision, tobias.raayoni-last.com and randogoth.com. They were one site until October 2026, serving four audiences from a single dated list, which is the only format that can hold unrelated things at once. flux.vision is recovered from the Wayback Machine, where it had sat since being deleted in 2021: 90 articles, closed and maintained rather than updated. tobias.raayoni-last.com is the professional record, 97 articles back to 1999. randogoth.com is the technical work, 41 articles across six areas, served as an ANSI bulletin board. History starts here deliberately. The development history, the 266-row inventory that records why each article went where it did, the Wayback pipelines, the pruned articles, the source archives and the full-size images are kept beside the repo rather than in it, so a clone is the web presence and not the argument that produced it. REFACTOR.md is gitignored for the same reason. See README.md for where that material lives, and keep it: the sort is not reproducible from these three directories alone. Each site documents itself in its own README, including the traps that cost time and look like nothing when you get them wrong.
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Title: map3terms Date: 2025-02-02 23:00 Category: PLACE Slug: map3terms Summary: Open-source Feistel-cipher–based three-word generator for geographic coordinates, ported from JavaScript to Dart.
In its first inception as a Telegram chatbot in 2019 Randonautica had implemented What3Words for each of the coordinates, a commercial service that assigns a three-word identifier to each 3m x 3m square on Earth. The reason for using their words was to provide randonauts with an extra layer of memetic information that might give rise to synchronicities. Indeed some explorers found correlations between some of the words and the location itself.
The problematic company behind the service has questionable marketing strategies, ridiculous price models, and aggressive intellectual property policies, so Randonautica did not want to continue using their service.
Since there was no need to use a service for navigation purposes but merely to provide three random words for each Randonaut point I was looking for an alternative solution based on a completely different wordlist and algorithm and found one based on the ingenious idea of a simplified symmetric encryption method called Feistel cipher, implemented in JavaScript. Unfortunately the original repository does not exist anymore but I ported it to Dart and published it under the Do What The Fuck You Want to Public License.