grantelder.com

unslick technology that explores big ideas

Grant Elder, a self-proclaimed creative, is carefully crafting a website to establish his online identity. Most memorably described as whimsical, empathetic, and quirky, Grant just strives to be a good engineer. This involves being a well-informed observer of all types of problems, considering creative solutions, identifying a technology that satisfies situational requirements, and communicating that solution effectively. Grant is also a big-picture thinker, which leads to many grand ideas. He hopes that his personal website, grantelder.com, will enable him to explore these ideas by documenting personal thoughts, developing useful tools, and establishing a platform to share technological outcomes with the whole wide world. Outside of this endeavor, Grant can be found coordinating get-togethers with friends, leveraging free cultural institutions, wandering through urban neighborhoods, vibing with his family, and curating his Pinterest boards. His ideal daily routine would involve eating apples, calling a friend, exploring somewhere new, reading an intellectual book, watching college football, and creating a 5-year plan. Navigating the site should be pretty straightforward. Reach out if you wanna!

• curriculum vitae - my background which explains who I am and how I got here
• portfolio - projects I've built and other things I'm proud of
• skills - an outline of what I know how to do and what I know in general
• socials - my limited social media which can be a good way find and connect with me
• literate programming - the most understandable way to design code
• microservices - tools I've created to solve smaller problems
• architecture - decisions I've made that have resulted in beautiful software

check it out!

listit (structures more complex page elements), nav (navigating between webpages), head (manages structure of pages, header), quest (checklist of questions, makes for good subpages), blurby (subheading structure), pub (publishing workflow), toc (table of contents) styl (organizes page in a readable manner), linc (jump between pages, integrating blurbs), footy (free for all footer), oigit (version control), authentik (admin management), treemaker (structures other pages)

other pages!

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Other ideas or projects I want to spend time working on

firethief

• personal knowledge management

Cornbread Collective

• community, not a cult

designant

• figuring out web design

trails

• trails.grantelder.com
• urban exploring slop
• when does slop become valuable?
• how can AI solve complex problems?
• truth sources and publishing elsewhere
• learning about publishing elsewhere and data universality

gragent

• gragent.grantelder.com
• alternative AI agent
• personal AI agent in the cloud for development
• prepaid credit
• AI agent tool with flexible input
• authentication and verification system that fits my use case
• do I use free tools like Cloudflare, GitHub, and GitLab?
• or use nearlyfreespeech.net and opencode models?
• understand how to merge tools and companies together
• version-controlled tool to track my engineering process
• hosting as a page so I can self-host the agent
• host using cluster or home hardware for more freedom
• at-cost agentic development
• automation tools
• open source tools
• architecture philosophy: low cost, simple, minimalism
• truth is me, mirrored elsewhere
• default agent: calendar/task management to help manage ideas
• how does nsfn work?
• how does mataroa work?
• how does opencode zen work?
• how do account setups work? I am an owner-operator.
• what outputs (power) do AI agents have?
• what permissions does gragent get?

diffeq Club

• turn into diffeq engineers
• set up domain github name.com deal .engineer tld -- student
• if I reach funding goals, domain diffeq.club -- nonprofit
• figure out mission statement
• figure out long-term and short-term goals
• see if part of the legacy is a 501c3
• make it the most involved club on campus
• open source structure; compare to nonprofits and collectives as a way to establish it as a nonprofit
• how to establish peer mentorship?

ibeanartist

• I like art, but why?
• what am I creating?
• oil and pastels

Ambience Phone

• low power, lightest possible cellular device

cheap house, cheap car

• optimizing living expenses
• uber eats and adventure