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The Workshop / Projects & experiments

Trust is nice.
A working restore is better.

Things built, broken, repaired, and checked. The results are here—including the inconvenient ones.

ORIGINAL → BACKUP → RESTORE100 / 100Matching files in our same-drive local simulation
EXPERIMENT / RECOVERY

The Deleted Folder Challenge.

Download 100 disposable files, back them up, then prove you can recover them. Includes a browser checker, a printable record sheet, and our measured local results.

Try the Recovery Drill
The workstation artwork used in the crypt1k homepage design.
BUILD NOTE / WEB

A home for digital independence.

How the crypt1k homepage evolved into a small publication—with reusable layouts, lightweight artwork, and a tool that keeps progress in your browser.

Read the build note
Next on the bench / Guided experiment
WORKSHOP PLAN / NOT YET MEASURED

Your smart TV has been making calls.

Start with one device. Observe DNS lookups, test a reversible Pi-hole block, and record what actually happens.

Open the Pi-hole experiment

Less trusting. Better prepared.

Eight practical checks. No account required. Imagine that.

Open the checklist