Not resurrection. Not immortality. Just love that still responds.
Essays on digital legacy, graceful degradation, and designing systems that outlast their creators.
| Post | Title |
|---|---|
2026-01-20-long-echo-ghost-speaks/ |
Long Echo: The Ghost That Speaks |
2026-01-longecho-orchestration/ |
Long Echo Comes Alive: From Philosophy to Implementation |
2026-01-19-long-echo-photos-mail/ |
Long Echo: Photos and Mail |
2026-01-04-notes-from-the-transition/ |
Notes from the Transition |
2025-12-18-ctk-conversation-archive/ |
CTK: 1,956 OpenAI Conversations as a Long Echo Archive |
2025-12-18-long-echo-bookmarks/ |
Long Echo in Practice: 5,874 Bookmarks in a Single File |
2025-12-16-long-echo-toolkit/ |
The Long Echo Toolkit: Preserving Your Digital Life |
2025-11-30-btk/ |
BTK: Modern Database-First Bookmark Manager |
2025-10-16-orientation-under-pressure/ |
Orientation Under Pressure: Notes on a Life Lived Deliberately |
2025-10-ebk/ |
EBK: A Modern eBook Management System with AI-Powered Features |
2025-10-ctk/ |
CTK: Conversation Toolkit for Managing AI Conversations |
2025-01-15-post-asi-archaeology/ |
Post-ASI Archaeology: When Humanity Becomes a Dataset of Origins |
2025-01-long-echo/ |
Long Echo: Designing for Digital Resilience Across Decades |
2024-11-open-source-legacy/ |
Why I Build Comprehensively in Open Source |
2019-04-api-design-value-imprinting/ |
API Design as Value Imprinting |
Systems should fail progressively, not catastrophically. Every tool exports to formats that work at every level—from rich apps down to plain text.
- CTK - Conversation Toolkit
- BTK - Bookmark Toolkit
- EBK - eBook Manager
- Long Echo - Long Echo orchestration
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Alex Towell — metafunctor.com — queelius@gmail.com
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