About

Me, ona plate.

Essays and doodles about grief, memory, and the urge to treat people like systems you can repair. This site is where I keep the rest of it — the music, the books, the honeypot, the record of the things I've made.

Almost twenty years in IT — networks, systems, security — which is probably where the urge to treat people like systems I can repair comes from. Army veteran. I make things and keep the receipts. This site is the file.

The body of work

everything I've made, in one place

Songs released under jacobrakai — on Apple Music and YouTube.

Essays, poems, and a memoir in progress. A few live here; the rest are on Substack.

Grey Matter and A Garden of Rage — read a taste on the shelf.

Hand-drawn explainers for how AI systems actually work under the hood.

A decoy server I run; it logs every break-in attempt and publishes a live blocklist of the worst offenders.

Elsewhere

off-site

@jacobrakai — where most of the essays live.

That's the plate. If you want to talk: [email protected]