QueryPat
PortalDive into the weird! The definitive Philip K. Dick literary criticism portal.
Status: Enforces rigid Scholar Profiles, but artificially separates his fiction from his lived paranoia.
HermeticDB
PortalUnlock the arcane! Maps the textual transmission of the Emerald Tablet across Arabic, Latin, and English.
Status: Phenomenal academic provenance, but SQLite flattens the complex lineage of mistranslations.
AtalantaClaudiens
EngineListen to the alchemy! Digitizes Michael Maier's 1618 multimedia CD-ROM (fugues, emblems, epigrams).
Status: Perfect crossover for academics and gamers, but currently presented as a static gallery.
HPMarginalia
ArchiveBecome a literary detective! Decodes secret alchemical marginalia in the 1499 Aldine edition.
Status: Elevates readers to co-authors, but loses spatial page context in standard text columns.
Shakespeare Sonnets
DH SiteUnravel the drama! Explores the love triangle of the Fair Young Man and Dark Lady in the 1609 Quarto.
Status: Perfect execution of the Deckard Boundary, but uses modern LLMs to judge 17th-century irony.
RenMagDB
PortalSummon the scholarship! 337 academic texts covering the rituals and esoteric magic of the Renaissance.
Status: Incredible academic rigor, but fails the practical needs of the occult practitioner.
Dreambase
ArchiveEnter the machine's mind! A massive synthetic memory bank of AI-generated ideas and thousands of LLM conversations.
Status: Ultimate autoethnography, but signal-to-noise ratio is too high for ad-hoc queries.
MarxistPortal
PortalChallenge your perspective! Analyzes 21st-century crises through four distinct Marxist theoretical lenses.
Status: Stable text-delivery system, but risks being overly static.
DH Framework
CLI ToolScaffold the Cathedral! Generates fully structured DH pipelines with a single command.
Status: Successfully enforces the Deckard Boundary and injects global master style guides.
SocialsDB
MegaphoneWitness the scale! Surveys nearly 4 million personal messages aggregated across 11 communication platforms.
Status: Raw data lake used for ad-hoc LLM formatting.
Digby Game
EnginePlay the history! An interactive DH engine focused on Sir Kenelm Digby and Renaissance alchemy.
Status: Realizes the "Laboratory" model, but JSON ontologies need cross-verification with RenMagDB.
Alchemy Scryfall
EngineDraft the esoteric! Cross-indexes Magic: The Gathering card mechanics with alchemical stages.
Status: Perfect execution of "Earnestness through Irony," though currently outputs static PDFs.
NSFRIPPER
ArchiveHack the 6502! Reverse-engineers Konami NES sound drivers to render high-fidelity Bach mashups.
Status: The technical extreme of the Deckard Boundary. Zero tolerance for LLM hallucination.
Almagest Kit (ACK)
EngineGenerate the ideas! A localized RAG system that loads historical texts and generates game ideas using Narrative Sculptor agents.
Status: The "brain" of the ideation process, but needs strict prompt structuring to avoid hallucination.
Book History
ArchiveDigitize the Cathedral! Python ingestion pipelines for converting complex scholarly Epubs and PDFs into clean Markdown.
Status: Unglamorous but strictly necessary deterministic parsing.
Vibe Coding Garage
MegaphoneMultiplayer DH! Discord integration and bot architecture for community-driven data pipelines.
Status: Early testbed for capturing developer interaction.
Legacy: TreeTapper
LegacyClick the Tree! An early mobile/clicker game packaged with Capacitor.
Status: Dormant, but taught UI state management for complex procedural games.
Legacy: MTG Overlay
LegacyStream the Draft! Early Magic: The Gathering interface overlay applications.
Status: The direct technical ancestor to Alchemy Scryfall.
Auditing & Quality Control
A major focus of this memory system is elevating the quality of LLM-generated prose across thousands of database entries. Explore our strategies for zero-token deterministic linting, semantic sampling, and defeating generic "LLM slop."
Database Theories
Explore our analysis of the three core database architectures: Knowledge Portals (Dictionaries/Timelines), Procedural Engines (LLM Dungeon Masters/Game Gen), and Social Megaphones (Automated Content Mining).
Frontend Patterns & UI/UX Standards
Review the strict visual requirements for the digital humanities ecosystem. From glassmorphic styling to relational browsing and standardized scholarly card templates, this guarantees we build arresting reading environments, not just flat web pages.
The Triple Audience Evaluation
We build for Academic Researchers, Gamers, and Occult Practitioners. Read our honest evaluation of how well projects like HermeticDB and QueryPat are serving this diverse ecosystem, and what we need to do to bridge the gap between "Cathedral Rigor" and "Playable Grimoires."
DH Methodological Analysis
A deep dive into the strict structural and methodological rigor of the databases. We evaluate ontology modeling in QueryPat, textual transmission in HermeticDB, IIIF standards for marginalia, and the methodological flaws of using LLMs for 17th-century sentiment analysis.
Prior Art & External Ecosystems
We don't reinvent the wheel. Explore our analysis of major Digital Humanities projects—like The Chymistry of Isaac Newton and Six Degrees of Francis Bacon—and discover how we adapt their methodologies for network graphing, diplomatic transcriptions, and Linked Open Data.
Down the Rabbit Hole
Curious how the AI manages its own memory? Explore the raw Karpathy-style knowledge base, where the LLM continuously synthesizes its findings, tracks its operations, and defines its own rules.