Research
Systems architecture, medical research, cognitive science, AI engineering, and theological studies. Primary sources, original language, first principles.
These pages exist because the filter is off. Fifty years of being dismissed, misdiagnosed, and underestimated produced a backlog. This is the unfiltered analysis — direct, dense, and unapologetic. If it reads like someone stopped caring what the audience thinks, that's because the audience wasn't listening anyway.
Pre-stroke output: mid-March – May 10, 2026. Post-stroke output: May 11, 2026 – present.
Clinical Assessment
Emerging Projects
Desktop Warfare
Pick Your Pack. Build Your Fort. Defend Your Desktop.
Desktop pet battler. Cartoon robot animals live on your screen, build forts from desktop elements, and fight corrupted Ferals. Solo, peer-to-peer multiplayer via mesh, and a live edition where real network security events drive the battles. Seven animalbot packs, each mapping to real security roles. The game is the recruitment pipeline for engineering.
Neurohelmet
From Thought to Machine — DIY Brain-Computer Interface
Four-phase project: solder an open-source EEG board, process brain signals into control intents, pilot a BattleTech-inspired mech game with your mind, then drive real robots through the robonet mesh. A father-son engineering project that starts with a soldering iron and ends with a robot that moves when you think at it.
robonet-drive
Your Files, Everywhere — Mesh-Distributed Storage
Drop a file in, it chunks, hashes, replicates, and distributes across the mesh. Mount it as a network drive on any OS via WebDAV — no drivers, no client software. Windows drive letter, macOS Finder mount, Linux filesystem. The mesh should feel like a disk.
robonet Personas
Giving the Mesh a Voice — Cartoon Robot Personalities
Every robonet app has a character. Rob the innocent mascot who goes cold when threatened. The sassy Forge Crew. The Constructicon-style Foundry builders. Stamp the blunt registrar. Drive the calm archivist. Scope the cold all-seeing eye. Mutable voice profiles for AI audio. The mesh isn't infrastructure — it's a team.
Systems Architecture
roboNet Architecture Assessment
Independent-Style Engineering Audit
120 use cases, 33,300 LOC, 761 tests, 0 dependency cycles. Novel systems table identifies four systems with no known prior art: HCTH, Colonize, Sentinel, CLI Composition.
roboNet Long-Term Roadmap
Neural Net Over Hardware — Phase A to 1.0
690-line roadmap covering distributed mesh, chain-builder autonomous pentest, query engine, hardware drone track. Maps cognitive architecture (parallel threads, HSAM, causal chain validation) to system design patterns.
Hash-Chain Trust Handshake (HCTH)
Blockchain-Adjacent Connection Authentication Protocol
Lightweight trust protocol for robonet mesh. Trust is earned through sustained cryptographic chain continuity. Full wire format, trust scoring, attack surface analysis. No known prior art. Patent candidate.
Plugin Tier Security & Hive Immunity
Distributed Immune System for Self-Defense
5-tier plugin trust hierarchy (kernel to raw scripts). Sentinel: distributed AI-based behavioral baselines per peer with multi-node approval for high-risk commands. Patent candidate.
WFL/WAG Distributed Workflow
Scatter-Gather Orchestration Model
Workflows as units of orchestrated work. Wagglers as worker-role coordinators. Full state machines, heartbeat chains, thread-based ephemeral workers, WAG failover.
MVC — Minimum Viable Cognition
The Thinking Mesh
A query entered on one node executes on all nodes and returns a unified answer. Full implementation spec with mesh routing, scout, WAG orchestration, and the acceptance criterion: 'Query enters one node, executes on four, returns unified. That is cognition.'
AI Engineering
robonet-forge
Autonomous AI Development Pipeline
Scan-lock-worktree-striker cycle. Forgemaster decomposes use cases into task envelopes, Sonnet workers execute in isolated worktrees, push to PR. 2,892 source lines, 125 tests, zero external dependencies.
Building at 25x
AI-Augmented Development Workflow
Model routing strategy — Opus for architecture, Sonnet for implementation. What 25x throughput means in practice when AI execution meets human architectural direction.
How I Use AI — Architecture, Not Autopilot
Multi-Model Routing, Human Architecture, AI Execution
The AI types. The architect thinks. Model routing across Claude, GPT, Grok, Gemini — each selected for task class strength. Case studies: porphyria investigation, theological studies, roboNet architecture. What AI cannot do and why the distinction matters.
The AI Quality Collapse
Why Companies Will Fail and Not Know Why
AI amplifies output without amplifying judgment. Companies hiring below the cognitive threshold for AI evaluation are building the largest technical debt bubble in software history. IQ thresholds by use tier, Hollingworth barrier in hiring chains, outsourcing accelerant, collapse timeline (2026-2030), and why the correction will come through failure, not prevention.
Cognitive Science
Cognitive Profile
Multi-Model Behavioral Assessment
HIP + HSAM + Hyper-Empathy: three independent neurodivergent pillars on one neural bus. Assessed by Claude, GPT, and Grok with convergent findings. 12 active projects, 146,160+ lines, 365 commits analyzed. Includes Intuitive Chain theory, Musical Thread Activation, HSAM Retroactive Indexing.
Primitive Learning Theory
Software Architecture as Cognitive Development Model
Original theory mapping software primitive composition to childhood learning, adult learning decline, and dementia resilience. Identifies why pattern-thinkers retain cross-domain transfer ability. robonet architecture as engineering proof-of-concept. Preprint target: PsyArXiv.
Applied Behavioral Psychology in Competitive Gaming
DAoC, WoW Shadow Priest, EVE Online, RDR2 Online, Star Citizen
25 years of real-time opponent state reading through affective empathy weaponized via systems-level pattern recognition. Multi-boxing as parallel processing externalization, Shadow Priest as psychological warfare class, EVE social engineering, RDR2 Online reputation inversion, Star Citizen fleet doctrine as cognitive architecture. Three family members called hackers — heritable, not practiced.
Building a Cognitive Profile with AI
Methodology Guide — Multi-Model Behavioral Assessment
Novel methodology for constructing cognitive profiles using multiple independent AI models as behavioral assessors. Experience-first, label-second approach eliminates confirmation bias entirely. Step-by-step guide with anti-bias design, cross-validation framework, and proof case (3 pillars identified across 4 models with convergent findings).
The HIP Distortion
When Easy Isn't Easy
When the architecture crosses six domains in one thought and can't tell it's doing something unusual. The $10 Wood's lamp example: six specialties in one glance, felt like seeing a magnifying glass. The distortion that hides capability from its own operator, creates the title gap, gets misread as arrogance, and prevents self-advocacy. The invisible thread connecting every other research page.
Gifted in the 1980s
Identified, Labeled, Abandoned
The US identified millions of gifted children in the 1980s through IQ testing, gave them a weekly hour of logic puzzles, told them they had 'so much potential,' and called it an intervention. The fast-learner model, the pull-out ghetto, the unpaid tutor deployment, the defunding, and why 40 years later the adults who were those children are still annoyed. The architecture needed accommodation. It got a checkbox.
So Your Husband Is Gifted
A Guide for the Person Living With the Architecture
He's not arrogant. He's not dismissive. He's not shutting you out. He's running an architecture that hides itself from its own operator — and you're living with the output. What the silence means, why 'it was obvious' is genuine, why he doesn't ask for help, and why playing dumb will cost you the relationship. Written for the spouse who needs to understand what they're seeing.
STAR Interview Report
Software Engineer / AI Architect — Evidence-Based STAR Responses
Ten STAR-formatted interview responses backed by 20 years of banking engineering at US Bank and Wells Fargo. ETL pipelines for 100+ regulatory reports, SSL cert automation on $1B/day mortgage systems, distributed AI mesh architecture, 3,248 tests, cross-team force multiplier pattern. AI architecture supplement with banking-relevant use cases.
STAR Interview Report — Data Science
Cross-Domain Pattern Recognition Meets Statistical Engineering
Data science STAR report. ETL pipelines across 3 federal sources, z-score anomaly detection (Sentinel), dimensional modeling, 36+ domain knowledge base, real-time cross-domain causal analysis. The porphyria differential as a live data science case study. 3,248 tests, specification-first reproducibility, and the 100th-percentile MCAT score that explains why the domain knowledge is already loaded.
STAR Interview Report — AI Architect
Distributed Inference, Agent Frameworks, Zero-Cloud AI
AI architect STAR report. Distributed local inference mesh, autonomous agent framework (631 tests), Sentinel anomaly detection (62 tests, patent candidate), multi-model orchestration across 8+ providers, HCTH cryptographic audit trail (patent candidate), zero external dependencies in core. On-premises AI architecture for data sovereignty, banking-relevant use cases, and the voice/persona system built as post-stroke accessibility tooling.
Career Aptitudes
What I Actually Do vs. What Titles Say I Do
Scorched earth career assessment. 30 years, domains that multiply with every new topic, zero titles that matched the function. Systems architecture, forensic pattern analysis, behavioral psychology, psyops, medical diagnostics, AI architecture, theology, infrastructure, education, threat assessment, marksmanship, nuclear physics. Every aptitude mapped to behavioral evidence — projects shipped, problems diagnosed, systems built, people read.
Domain Census
One Principle, Every Scale
36 confirmed cognitive domains mapped. Projected 45-60+. One unified principle — pressure differential — derived from a canoe paddle and applied across every scale: fluid dynamics, meteorology, stellar physics, dimensional cosmology, quark-gluon plasma. 6 domains map to medical specialties. Updated June 16 with confirmed additions, medicine breakdown, and projected estimate.
The Daughter Board
Empathy Processing Architecture Across Sex and Neurodivergence
The female brain processes empathy on shared hardware — onboard integrated module, always-on, buffered, CPU-competing. The hyper-empathic male runs a dedicated daughter board — own processor, full bandwidth, no buffering, thermal damage the chassis was never designed to absorb. Same signal, different architecture, different cost. Three tiers of male empathy hardware mapped against the female baseline. Engineering language for biological systems backed by neuroscience.
Accessibility Engineering
Medical Research
Theological Studies
Hardware Engineering
OpenSCAD Parametric Component Library
Shared 3D-Printable Modules for 5 Hardware Projects
Fully parametric OpenSCAD modules: servo mounts, camera adapters, 2-axis gimbal assemblies, enclosures, motor brackets. Designed for reuse across turret camera, tank-track PC, laser bug zapper, seeker tracker, and drone builds. Support-free printing, configurable for SG90/MG996R/NEMA servos.
Custom Quadcopter Drone
ESP32 + Betaflight + Raspberry Pi FPV Platform
Carbon fiber frame, 2212 920KV brushless motors, SpeedyBee F405 flight controller, GPS RTH, ExpressLRS RC link, Pi Zero video streaming. Full BOM, $370 total build. roboNet mesh node candidate.
Laser Bug Zapper
Autonomous Targeting Turret with Computer Vision
MG996R pan/tilt gimbal, 1W 450nm blue laser with TTL control, OpenCV target tracking on Raspberry Pi 4B. Safety interlock, limit switches, PCA9685 servo driver. $185 build.
Tank-Track Mobile Platform
Tracked Robot with Onboard Compute
Dual DC gear motors, rubber tracks, LiPo powered. Raspberry Pi 4B onboard compute, ultrasonic obstacle avoidance, MPU-6050 IMU, ESP32 motor control. Carbon fiber chassis with 3D-printed brackets. $245 build.
Seeker Tracker
Autonomous Target-Following Camera Turret
Pi HQ Camera with swappable lenses (16mm telephoto for tracking, 6mm wide for acquisition). PIR wake-on-motion, active CV tracking, tripod-mountable. $190 build.
Turret Camera
Pan/Tilt Surveillance Gimbal
SG90 servo 2-axis gimbal, Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3, Pi Zero 2W streaming host. First project in the parametric library — all other projects inherit from this gimbal design. $80 build.
Infrastructure
Network Independence Migration
Cloudflare Tunnel + roboNet Mesh + Isolated Bridge
Phased migration plan to move xsubi.com infrastructure off shared network. Blast radius analysis across 47 files, IP reference counts by category, zero-downtime cutover strategy.
xsubi Architecture: Blazor, FastAPI, Bare Metal
Three-Layer Platform Design
Browser/portal/host agent architecture. Decoupling rationale, mTLS security model, bare-metal Kubernetes on Dell PowerEdge R720s.
Dell PowerEdge R720s: Enterprise Hardware for Home Cloud
Self-Hosted Infrastructure Deep Dive
Enterprise hardware repurposed for personal cloud. K8s cluster architecture, storage, networking, and the economics of self-hosting vs. public cloud.