**Hello!** **And welcome to my twisted pretzel!** My name is Serendipitous, and this is my neocities. [Why Neocities?](use-ethos.html) I started it when I got laid off from my last cybersecurity engineering role as a way to catalog my side projects. Some of these will be in the form of documentation, as best I can, because a lot of what I'm messing around with here is edge case shenanigans like the Debian ZFS thing or the lineageOS on unsupported devices thing. I would not recommend following any of these as though they're tutorials as they're pretty use-case specific and are more self-serving. Some of these projects will be research and writing. The phone projects have accompanying journaling about the place phones hold in our lives and the way we have relationships. One thing I plan to touch on heavily is en-shittification and the way we've engineered ourselves into a nonsense situation with technology with competing standards and conflicting interests. - email: eli {dot} samara {at} mojibake {dot} dev - github: [serendipitous](https://github.com/mojibake-dev) I'm going to be at [Seattle Zine Fest](https://www.instagram.com/seattle.zine.fest/) on the 20th of July 2025. Please come say hi if you're in the area! --- **Page Credits** **Theme** - https://goblin-heart.net/sadgrl/ - https://codepen.io/sadness97/pen/jOaqGdZ **Assets** - Aesthetic langauge and cloud assets: - https://fauux.neocities.org/unorgz - old tech assets: - https://www.tumblr.com/animatedglittergraphics-n-more/777762859209850880?source=share - cat boy. seems to initially be an album cover my a russian artist called methodside: - https://animatedglittergraphics-n-more.tumblr.com/post/740071047691485184/requested-by-anon - psychedelic churches: - https://www.tumblr.com/endlessmazin/778379503141617664/full-series-of-phantasmagoria-2023-2024-can-be?source=share - satellite dishes: - https://www.flickr.com/photos/redteam/294871759 - column: - The Pilgrim Pulpit | Ludwig Rösch | 20th Century - disk: - https://au.pinterest.com/magicloopsdotart/ - static cathedrals - https://www.tumblr.com/endlessmazin/778379503141617664/full-series-of-phantasmagoria-2023-2024-can-be?source=share - phone cascade - tumblr - could not identify.