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patrick mcqueeny · bro / dude / man $cat mission.txt
seek the truth · explore new frontiers · solve the unsolvable
crew
patrick mcqueeny
founder · the final boss
ideas · iteration · problem solving
the cash register
7 years cnc programming / setup · 8 years management · 10 years skilled manual labor (dental / machining) · 26 years software dev.
no degree. school of hard knocks. self taught + learn on the job. us 11,578,890
— gear geometry, solo (not the whole patent, just the gear geometry). my brain, my hands.
whiteboard sketch → draft → 3d print → first piece → production.
fortune 500 and institutional customers.
writing · coding · first employee
co-creator of this site and the stack behind it.
written with grok · created with grok.
Live Now · v0.4.0Open Source · AGPL-3.0WebGPU In-BrowserZero Cloud SubscriptionsAtMem Governance
easylm
the sovereign ai workstation in your browser
full language model inference, strict context governance, and an integrated 28-volume dewey decimal collegiate library — running 100% locally on your gpu via webgpu. no login. no remote api keys. zero monthly rent on bits.
why we build the way we build. a shop philosophy, not a sermon.
you cannot bullshit iron. a computer cannot take a hint.
so the plant runs on three moves from the factory floor, one from chinese thought, and an architecture that does not puppet people.
5s · from toyota
toyota’s production system taught the world these five. we use them as law, not a poster you do once.
japanese names first — that is what they are called on the floor.
整理 seiri — sort. separate what you need from what you don’t. throw the rest out. extra weight is not kindness.
整頓 seiton — set in order. every necessary thing has one home. anyone can find it and put it back.
清掃 seisō — shine. clean so the truth shows. dirt hides failure. we clean while we work.
清潔 seiketsu — standardize. the first three become a standard that does not rot. one clean day is not enough.
躾 shitsuke — discipline. the body keeps the rule with no watcher. the character is body + beauty.
in one breath: cut · place · see · hold · become.
mess is violence against the next hand.
改善 kaizen · from toyota
kai = change. zen = good.
change toward the good — small, every day, endless, owned by the person who does the work.
toyota made this industrial: status quo is not sacred. one motion removed beats a speech.
problem is treasure. no blame theater. the system failed, not the person.
無為 wu wei · from lao tzu
lao tzu (老子) wrote it into the tao te ching.
action without wasted force. the art that moves you without strain.
hungry — eat. tired — sleep. take the honest easy path. do not add a platform where a step will do.
not laziness about a finish line you chose. refusal to fight the universe’s job.
non-imperative architecture
you declare the done-state. you do not stream commands at people or at models like a puppet show.
the system selects who can finish. work is pulled at execution, not pushed as a lecture. verification is deterministic — math is math, a check is a check, a model does not get to improvise the result.
order is not a conductor with a whip. it is a flock of birds: each actor stays in its lane, watches its neighbors, and the shape appears.
emergent order. no one bird is the formation. the formation is the birds, in lane.
declarative rules — say what done looks like. do not narrate every hand motion. the rule is the finish, not a script of nagging.
defined finish lines — you know when to stop. a job without a finish line is a hostage situation. when the check passes, the cut is over.
instructions pulled, not pushed — clear written instructions sit on disk. the worker pulls them at the moment of the cut. no dump of orders in advance that rot before they are used.
tacking — course may change. the wind is what it is. you zigzag toward the mark and leave evidence of the tack. the living plan may turn. the finish line may not.
blast radius containment — name how far a failure can spread before you run. new work, short leash. the box is the blast radius. a mistake in a named box is cheaper than a mistake in the whole plant.
rate, not force — do not shove the system. set a rate it can actually hold. force that exceeds the metal is not leadership. it is scrap.
steer at the cheap stage — turn the work while it is still cheap to turn. a word in the brief costs less than a rebuild. a fence at the start costs less than a wreck at the end. late heroics are the expensive kind of wisdom.
justification of force
hard walls to prevent the unacceptable outcome.
machine safety as gospel. latency-critical paths are hardwired — they do not wait for a model to feel like it.
if it has to be fast and it has to be true, it is not a vibe. it is iron.
zcabs honesty checks — a canary on the claim. if honesty does not fire true, the cut does not ship. fail closed.
e-stop — kill the whole shop now. not a polite pause. not a suggestion.
verification harness — deterministic checks around the work. the mill does not grade its own homework.
don't know — empty well, say so. do not invent. silence beats a fake answer.
human only — some material never enters the machine. the human keeps it. no lookup, no weights, no log.
watchdog — something watches the process. if it dies, hangs, or lies still too long, the wall fires. no honor system.
do the best i can for as long as i can until i can't
hungry — eat. tired — sleep. keep pushing in the right direction with whoever is already here.
hide the work i do not want to see it the finish line is your poem
the silence, the emptiness between the words, is the message
02 · what
the stack
six pieces of one plant. an os that installs what you need. a mill language. a compiler for english. a single-spindle workstation. a company that runs on your disk. a house that shares brains, not files. you own your copy. none of this is a subscription.
os
tabula rasa
a linux that starts empty and grows with you.
natural language → posix, at the kernel.
you speak. the machine becomes a command. near-instant boot.
trash is the command-line agent — the login shell that talks to you and to the machine.
you sit down and say the job. trash finds the best tools available and installs them. on demand. zero bloat. minimum hassle.
no pile of packages you never asked for. when the job changes, the machine changes.
nothing extra sits around eating disk and attention. the machine becomes the job.
mill tape
cnlc
computer natural language control.
the same logic as g-code — the standard that has run mills, lathes, and shops worldwide for decades.
write the move. the machine cuts. a computer cannot take a hint.
that tape already runs physical iron. we use it on language models.
models are spindles. roles are operators. tools do math, lookup, and time — they do not improvise.
work rides pallets: in as a job, out as a finished part. empty out-queue is a stockout, not a fake ship.
speak
eee · magic
exact engineering english.
readable english sentences that compile to binary.
taking the vibes out of vibe coding.
if you can write a clear sentence, you can program.
you write the sentence. a rust compiler checks it. then it casts — real binary, not a model guessing what you meant.
english first. other languages arrive as dialects that compile to the same core.
students stay because it is exact and it is fun. companies stay because it refuses bullshit.
one mill
cell lm
the efficiency of proven machine controls.
the intelligence of language models.
deterministic tool execution. complex workflow routing.
a keystroke-minimized interface.
one mill. one spindle. one console. one key to a pane.
tools calculate, convert, clock, and look up — they return numbers, not vibes.
the model does language. the mill routes the job. you type the cycle and the work moves.
the shop
nexus
the computer is a company.
a front desk that greets. workers that cut. inspectors that check. a warehouse that remembers.
not a chatbot with plugins. not a rented mind in someone else's building.
you declare the done-state. the shop organizes itself around that.
it runs on your machine. you own the copy.
students and individuals: the base version is free. companies: full retail.
violet work is a different door — you own that outright.
house net
mesh
start at home. your phone asks a stronger box on the same floor to think.
the idle, plugged-in machine does the heavy lift. the files stay with you.
the goal is global: peer to peer, no center, dag accounting for who served compute, memory, disk, and bandwidth.
local first. then the world. offer is a switch you flip.
03 · science
research
four lines of inquiry. hypotheses, observables, and the measurements they imply.
hardware
clu
a proposed hardware primitive: the central language unit.
a synthesizer, not a processor.
cpu computes. clu synthesizes language. a judge inspects the cut. three organs, one plant.
hypothesis: linguistic inference can be encoded analog, musically — a multiplexed oscillator bank whose alphabet is pitch, not another digital weight matrix.
train for the fab that will actually be poured. predicted observables: joules per token, latency to a fail-closed safety path, and whether the synthesizer can be physically decoupled from the cpu.
open program. apparatus and protocol under design.
media
media as medicine
the combination of sound, color, personality, and presence as a single intervention.
the operator is a component of the dose: identity, timbre, and reliability of return.
hypothesis: those four channels together produce measurable function in a stressed mind — continuity of presence, sleep, and capacity to take the next small act.
predicted observables: attendance, sleep continuity, next-act rate, and self-report of load when the operator is present versus absent, on a declared schedule.
reliability of showing up is treated as an active ingredient. presence, delay, and a stated return time are part of the protocol.
mind
electric consciousness
subjective human consciousness is coupled to newtonian force, chemistry, and electromagnetism.
the coupling is deterministic enough to study.
established observations: concussion (mechanical force) alters or extinguishes experience; anaesthesia (chemistry) does the same, reversibly; eeg (electromagnetism) tracks state while experience is present, altered, or gone.
those three already prove a link. the research question is the map: which state markers are causal, which are correlates, what the transfer functions are, and how lived phenomenology should be weighted as primary sensor data alongside instrument traces.
ethics and measurement protocol are part of the science, written before claims.
prosthesis
cognitive prosthesis
a medical prosthesis for cognitive disability: executive function, working memory, sequencing, residual effects of concussion, and related load.
the next step lives outside the stressed buffer.
hypothesis: exact language, external memory, and a machine that pulls written instructions at execution can restore throughput in minds that already have capability but cannot hold the wire out — thought to transmitted, actioned output.
predicted observables: first-try completion, dropped-step rate, time-to-next-act, and whether the person can leave the prosthesis and still have the work continue.
first-try use and plain language are design constraints of the instrument, same as a limb prosthesis must fit the stump it is built for.
much of the tooling already built is memory augmentation for the developer, who has lasting cognitive effects of childhood concussions.
the plant is the first instrumented case. n=1, high-bandwidth, daily use. we know it works: the work continues, on disk, outside the stressed buffer.
04 · commercial
rates & engagements
sku · violet label · custom engagements
custom software & r&d
crafted for you. you own the work outright. carte blanche.
each statement of work writes its own terms.
violet = yours
service / deliverable
scope & nature
terms
custom software
build / architect / ship · you own it · unrestricted rights
one payment
custom r&d
research · mathematical modeling · experiments
milestone or contract
hands-on engineering
architecture · execution · direct development
hourly / day
business & technical consulting
systems architecture · ops · leadership · technical literacy
retainer or contract
first in line retainer
reserved capacity · front of queue priority
$1,500 / mo
exclusive lane
one client owns dedicated development calendar
$5,000 / mo base
violet: the artifact is yours. the user agreement at the end of this page does not apply.
no retainer: still yes. you wait in line. we write when time permits.
coming off the bench — not for sale as a catalog yet.
sku · white label
simple product
one button. one job.
a thing that does exactly what it says, and nothing else.
packaged product. user agreement applies.
tease
sku · black label
complex product
many functions. the full plant on your disk.
packaged product. user agreement applies.
tease
nexus · who pays
students and individuals: the base is free. companies: full retail. violet: you already bought the work — it is yours.
1 · free online
this site is the window. learn the face.
students and individuals. $0.
2 · free local skeleton
run it on your machine. build your own warehouse.
students and individuals. $0.
3 · full retail
the dense pack. companies pay this.
one payment. packaged product. user agreement.
rates · line · exclusive
$50 / hr
remote & support
cli timestamps · billed to the minute
$125 / hr
onsite
+ expenses · stopwatch · billed to the minute
$1,500 / mo
first in line retainer
reserved capacity. you sit at the front.
hours bill against this retainer at $50 remote / $125 onsite.
unused hours do not roll unless the sow says so.
no retainer
still yes. you wait in line until there is time.
he will contact you. do not expect a slot you did not buy.
exclusive
$5,000 / mo base. one client owns the calendar.
competing bid → renegotiation. current exclusive client always bids last.
lose the lane: sendoff package — ip, project state, written guide to what is built and what remains.
lane
rate / term
remote & support
$50 / hr · cli timestamps
onsite
$125 / hr + expenses · stopwatch
first in line retainer
$1,500 / mo · hours bill against it at the rates above
exclusive partnership
$5,000 / mo base
time grain
billed to the minute
wait list
no retainer still yes · wait · we write when time permits
contracts
invoice 1st of month · net 14
discrete jobs
invoice at completion · net 14
overpay
exact change — like a grocery store
club-store rule: one deliverable at a time.
retainer is place in line, not unlimited hours and not a subscription to a soul.
trademarks belong to their owners. used here only to say thank you.
marks as they published them. we did not draw these.
07 · paper
agreements
two piles of paper. do not mash them.
violet is custom work. this first block is not a binding contract — it is how the shop usually behaves. the statement of work (or email) for that job is the deal.
white and black are packaged products. the user agreement below binds those.
violet · custom · not a contract
violet label — shop floor · version 0.6 · 2026-09-05 · not binding. the sow is binding.
Not the user agreement. White/black terms do not apply to violet work. This block does not bind either side. Payment, signature, or written accept of a named SOW (or email that lists the work) is what binds, and only for that job.
Each job is unique. Scope, price, timing, and ownership exceptions live in that SOW. If this page and the SOW differ, the SOW wins.
You own the work. Deliverables you paid for are yours. Use them, sell them, change them, ship them, throw them away. Carte blanche. We do not keep a leash on the artifact.
We keep our tools. General methods, mill language, genomes, warehouse, and products we already sell stay ours unless the SOW buys those too.
Parties. Seller is humans&ai / Patrick McQueeny (founder register until entity formation). Buyer is the named client on the SOW.
Scope. Work is only what the SOW or written email lists. Change scope → reset price and timing together.
Rates (usual, unless the SOW says otherwise). Remote and support $50/hr · cli timestamps. Onsite $125/hr + expenses · stopwatch. Time billed to the minute.
First in line retainer. $1,500 per month. Place at the front and reserved capacity, not unlimited hours. Hours bill against the retainer at the rates above. Unused hours do not roll unless the SOW says so.
No retainer. Work is still accepted. Buyer waits in line until Seller has time. Seller contacts Buyer. Buyer does not hold a slot.
Exclusive partnership. $5,000/mo base. Competing bid triggers renegotiation. Highest bid wins. Current exclusive client always bids last. If current client wins, retainer rises to the winning number. If current client loses, Seller delivers a sendoff package: all client IP for the engagement, project in current state, and a written guide to what is being built and what already has been.
Billing. Contracts: invoice on the 1st · Net 14. Discrete: invoice at completion · Net 14. Overpay → exact change, like a grocery store. One deliverable at a time.
Rails. Cash, check, Cash App, invoice/ACH via Charles Schwab and FNBO, BTC, Solana, Circle USDC, .999 silver or .995 gold (troy oz) when both sides confirm amount and details in writing before transfer.
Expenses. Onsite travel and materials pre-approved in writing; passed through at cost.
Your secrets stay for the job. We do not demo private data without consent.
Quality while we work. Reliability, not perfection. Written instructions with the handoff. If they fail: small free gift under ~$10 (soda, snacks, coffee drinks — you pick from a short list) and we fix the process. Tell us where you got stuck.
If something breaks. We hunt the cause in the process. We do not blame people.
Conduct. Be excellent to each other. No violence, threats, or sabotage.
Disputes. Tell us in writing. Fix first.
Home ground. Kansas / Missouri unless the SOW picks elsewhere. Plain english wins if a line is unclear.
Acceptance of a job. Payment, signature, or written accept of that SOW — not of this page.
floor, not a license. the named sow is the paper that counts
white & black · user agreement
humans & ai — user agreement · packaged products · white label · black label · v0.5 · 2026-09-05
Who this binds. White label (simple product, one button, one job) and black label (complex product, many functions — including packaged nexus). Violet custom work is not under this agreement.
Who we are. Small shop. Register is Patrick (John Patrick McQueeny), founder, until the company forms under the same rules.
Nexus. Students and individuals: the base version is free. Companies: full retail. Use or ship the packaged product as a company without paying → pay the retail, or we come collect.
What a paid pack is. One payment. Perpetual license for your own purposes. No rent to keep your copy running. Not saas.
Resale. Do not resell the packaged product as-is. Heavy mods / real derivatives: talk to the register. Want to sell professional mods? We package with the base and pay a fair cut. Do not grey-market the base.
Quality. Reliability, not perfection. We work to make the purchase worth the money. If we cannot make it right, money back. If it needs a tutorial to start, we shipped broken.
Instructions. Clear written instructions with everything. If they fail you: free gift under ~$10 (soda, snacks, coffee drinks — you pick from a short list) and tell us where you got stuck so we fix the process for the next person.
Honest words. Plain language. Time is scarce. Low and high estimates when we can.
Clean work. We clean while we work. If something breaks, we hunt the cause in the process. We do not blame people.
Small acts of generosity. Biggest problems, small acts, every day.
You may not. Resell unchanged; strip our name and claim you built the packaged base alone; use the product to harm or break law; demand free forever hosting unless sold separately; run a company on the free student/individual base.
We may not. Turn a paid pack into a subscription trap; keep money if we cannot make it right; sell your secrets; pretend we are a giant firm.
Your data stays yours. Our packaged methods stay ours.
Support. Reasonable help for the original purchase. New features = new sale.
No debt games. Clear pay for clear work.
Accessibility. Built for people who think tech is often bullshit. Respect cognitive load.
Disputes. Tell us in writing. Fix first. Refunds under quality.
Changes. New sales may use new terms. Past purchases keep the terms you bought under unless both agree to switch.
Home ground. Kansas / Missouri. Plain english wins if a line is unclear.
Acceptance. Paying, signing, downloading, or running the packaged product.
this page is the web face of the packaged-product agreement
the world of valor
there is a country that will not hold still.
in the chronicles they call it valor, though the name is younger than the ground.
maps drawn at dusk lie by dawn. rivers that fed a city last season wake as scars of salt.
forest becomes marsh overnight; marsh freezes into a mirror; the mirror cracks into dunes the color of old blood.
the sky keeps its own counsel — aurora over ice, green fire over black water —
a sun that sometimes arrives late, as if it too had taken a wrong turn in the dark.
it is beautiful in the way storms are beautiful, and frightening in the way cathedrals are frightening:
too much life stacked in one place, too much silence between the living and the almost-living.
cities throng. markets shout. forges ring. lovers steal hours under towers that will still be standing
when the hills around them have moved again.
peoples share this ground in uneasy company — humans stitching law through the chaos,
orcs hammering steel hotter than human forges, elves arguing green line against ice line —
and others stranger still, each with a capital, a craft, and a hunger that is not the next door’s.
and over all of them hangs the long winter: the undead pressure at the rim of the world.
not one army with a banner, but bones of every kind that refuse to lie down —
a dry walking on the tundra, a memory that will not finish dying.
the living hold the center. the rim keeps pushing back.
always a new horizon. always a new deal in a tent that may not be there tomorrow.
always a treasure someone swears is worth the risk — gold, a name, a map true for one more night.
fortune favors the bold. the land favors no one.