My name is Calliope. Since 2024-04-24 I am managing a publication called Operand.

Operand researches cyber sociology.

Upon launch, I had planned to build apps on commission, as in my earlier career. I found that the spiraling demand for hand-coded apps quickly failed me, that my managerial experience was subzero, and that I really had some psychological neuroses that had sprung up around my chosen norms of online use.

I had an experimental blogging engine, so I began publishing essays ranging from socio-economic explanations to psychological explorations. On good days I shared guides for clean and useful code modules. On bad days I experimented on cumbersome and useless code modules. I began to plan some product directions, and ramped up a channel for screenshares. I purchased a product domain and described some ideas at a conference.

I described the business as

sociable engineering,
communication engineering,
deployment engineering,
legacy modernization.

I replaced all my friends with a loose collection of colleagues, then found new friends among them.

These exercises nearly always became framed in my mind as research, and I'd describe the cause and consequence of each scenario as I learned the bounds of cyberspace and realspace, and the curious connections they shared.

Cyber sociology is my current summary of this research. The essays that formerly called operand a home-page, are now backed up securely to make room for a resource guide. If you'd like access to the old ideas, please say so.

Approaching Problems.

Operand researches cyber sociology; in programs, in process, and in lore.

In programs, research aims to secure crucial programs and modernize their operations. Operand is building the means to examine nuances of source code, and uses Nushell, Nix, Elixir, and Incus to compile legacy programs for more durable use.

In process, a map of ongoing operations (made in D2) displays connections between our process and the ecology around us. These diagrams are going to be applied to specific research problems, such as diagramming the logic of chosen codebases.

In lore, a focus is placed on channels for communication; from content-management schemes to social media abuses. This