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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: CLI Tools for Reticulum & Nomad Network Date: 2023-05-28 23:00 Category: MINIMAL Slug: reticulum Summary: Contributed several low-bandwidth tools and content systems to the Reticulum Network ecosystem, focused on resilient, minimal-infrastructure communication.
In spring 2023 I was fascinated by the ecosystem of projects around the Reticulum Network.
Reticulum is the cryptography-based networking stack for building local and wide-area networks with readily available hardware. Reticulum can continue to operate even in adverse conditions with very high latency and extremely low bandwidth.
Reticulum can be used over practically any medium that can support at least a half-duplex channel with 500 bits per second throughput, and an MTU of 500 bytes. Data radios, modems, LoRa radios, serial lines, AX.25 TNCs, amateur radio digital modes, WiFi and Ethernet devices, free-space optical links, and similar systems
I contributed a simple raw LoRa packet transmitter commandline tool for the RNode hardware called LoRaTransmit.
For the Reticulum Netork's LXMF protocol I built a simple Telethon inspired chatbot class called LXMFBot.
The most popular service that runs on Reticulum is the low bandwidth Nomad Network reminiscent of 1990s BBS systems. I built micron-blog, a plugin for the Python based static website generator Pelican to generate Micron markup formatted files that are the building blocks of a Nomad Network node.
md2mu, the core of this plugin later evolved into a standalone CLI called md2txt that can convert Markdown also into other arcane text formats.
