Building a fusion reactor in the garage.
Not literally. But that's the energy. The forge is the working half of the site — field notes, code, the tools I build, and the work I sell. Every part is welded in the open and mirrored here, so it keeps running even if a platform somewhere decides to forget it. No affiliate, no sponsorship. Signal, not noise.
Forge stations
the knowledge base. notes, code, papers, and mirrors — every entry tagged to its source: my repo, github, vendor docs. copy it, clone it, or follow the link. takedown-resistant by design.
self-hosted model context protocol servers — email/domain enrichment and cheap-first model routing. real code you can run today, sold as custom builds.
managed deception. a privacy-preserving public sensor snapshot with explicit freshness, plus lab decoys modeled on real attack surfaces. unexpected connections are leads to investigate.
defensive engineering, deception, honest assessments. basic to advanced, priced in the open — then we scope the rest over a call.
recon tooling on its own hardened node. external — opens jrt.joeromaine.com.
the arcade — the gemtd builder and other game-adjacent tools. external — opens gaming.joeromaine.com.
House rules
- honest over hype. tiered ratings (S/A/B/C). no "best of" listicles.
- zero affiliate, zero sponsorship. if you see a link, it earned the slot.
- own work is labeled. if i made it you'll see OWN. otherwise it's a link, not a mirror.
- archive what i'd hate to lose. videos, talks, code — copies live here too.
- recommend, never demand. your stack is yours. mine is just a suggestion.