Never Tax
The Gig

02 / THE WORKBENCH

Local models, encrypted vaults, and pure unadulterated signal. Righteous terminal tools and self-hosted rigs running strictly on hardware you control, buddy.

Built because somebody
got sufficiently annoyed.

11 tools to explore

Different tools, different requirements. Each repository has the install steps and current project status.

02.1 / RUNNING ON REAL MACHINES

Real interfaces. Your hardware. Click a capture for the full picture.

WeazlCloud / FILES / SELF-HOSTED

Your files. Your node.

Evict the corporate cloud. A bare-metal, drop-in replacement that keeps your stash out of their grubby training sets. Sling encrypted 'grab' links for secure, dead-drop file handoffs. Keep it local, and never tax the gig.

[ SOURCE ↗ ]

04 / THE HANDLE BEHIND THE HARDWARE

Born in the static.

Before the cloud turned into an enshittified hellscape, the grid was a wild frontier. Weazl was born in the hiss of a 2400 baud handshake—a creature of the '90s BBS underground slinging hex before he could walk upright. People see the backward cap and the posture and figure he just rolled out of a three-day basement LAN bender. Let 'em. He’ll rewrite your whole routing table with a shrug and a "whatever, amigo" while you're still searching for the login prompt.

[ EARLY TRANSMISSION / THE SKYWAY DOSSIER ]

[ SYSOP DOSSIER // BORN IN THE STATIC. ]

Before the cloud turned into an enshittified hellscape, the grid was a wild frontier. Weazl was born in the hiss of a 2400 baud handshake—a creature of the '90s BBS underground slinging hex before he could walk upright. People see the backward cap and the posture and figure he just rolled out of a three-day basement LAN bender. Let 'em. He’ll rewrite your whole routing table with a shrug and a "whatever, amigo" while you're still searching for the login prompt.

HANDLE: ThaWeazl ORIGIN '90s BBS underground UPLINK 2400 baud / analog static LOCATION Skyway overlook PRIME DIRECTIVE Never tax the gig. Inspect the stack ↗

Up on the skyway overlook, the signal is clean and the corporate noise drops to zero. It’s a sanctuary perched high above the big-tech data farms. Down below, the suits are scraping telemetry and rent-seeking every cycle of compute. Up here? Just Weazl, a brew, and headphones locked into an offline FLAC archive. Completely untethered.

The retro iron parked on the shoulder isn't just for cruising. The trunk is a mobile Faraday cage packing a cold-storage vault secured by uncompromising AES-GCM encryption. Don't even ask about the virtualization layer—he's compiling a sovereign hypervisor from scratch to bypass the modern bloat entirely.

When the network gets too hot, he just pulls the uplink, drops the clutch, and vanishes into the analog static. He's not pitching a startup. He doesn’t want your VC seed money, he doesn't want a cloud subscription, and he definitely isn't playing tech support if you lock yourself out.

The sysop is sovereign. You lose the pass, you lose the stash—tough shit, buddy, that’s the deal.

Go ahead and underestimate the slouch. While the rest of the world gets fenced into walled corporate gardens, Weazl is out on the fringe, keeping the true signal alive.

Never tax the gig.

[ OPERATING PRINCIPLES // YOUR HARDWARE. YOUR DATA. YOUR CONTROL. ]

Weazl is independent skunkworks by Bob Prendergast. Terminal roots and a BBS soul. You hold the keys, you operate the node.

Control the node.

Local files. Your own Proxmox servers. Open-source models you run yourself. Point the clients at your infrastructure and keep total control of the stack.

Execute without the noise.

Write the draft. Tune the stream. Inspect the tokens. Focused interfaces, direct controls, and absolutely zero engagement feeds harshing your workflow.

Inspect the source.

Clone the repo, audit the dependencies, build the binary. Installation steps and current status live right in each repository. Open hood, zero bullshit.

Never tax the gig.

The golden rule. Respect the CPU cycles and don't harsh the hardware's mellow. Execute the task, stay off the grid, and leave the corporate bloat behind. Keep the signal alive and never tax the gig.

Sovereign crypto.

We believe the sysop is absolutely sovereign. That means we take a tough-shit approach to encryption, amigo. We pack modern AES-GCM algorithms into the vaults, but there are no backdoors, no corporate cloud recovery, and no mommy to run to. You own the locks. You lose the key, you lose the stash. Tough shit, man.

[ DEMMOD // HEAR THE SIGNAL. RECOVER THE MESSAGE. ]

Turn the static back into signal. A righteous software modem to encode and decode raw audio payloads straight into plain text or CP437 ANSI. Drop a file in the hopper, lock into a V.22bis 2400 bps carrier wave, and watch the tasty nugs arrive. Eight bits, no parity, one stop. Keep the analog underground alive, amigo.

PROFILES / Bell 103 / V.22 / V.22bis / RATES / 300 / 1200 / 2400 bit/s / FRAMING / 8 data bits / no parity / 1 stop bit / STATUS / Experimental

Encode a known message. Export the WAV, or listen as the samples are generated. Load a supported recording in Decode, press Play, and watch the recovered characters arrive against the playback clock.

Investigate recorded signals, generate repeatable reference audio, or carry ANSI art and puzzle clues inside sound. Compare recovered bytes against a known payload to check what survives changes in level, noise, or compression.

Bell 103 has been tested with software round trips and a real recorded message. V.22 and V.22bis are experimental, with software round trips tested. Physical modem and acoustic-coupler compatibility remains unverified.

One self-hosted Go service, a browser interface, FFmpeg, and SpanDSP. Audio processing stays on the local machine. No accounts, cloud uploads, or telemetry.

Get the source and install instructions ↗

4,036 BYTES RECOVERED. THE PICTURE IS IN THE AUDIO. / 2400 BPS / 8N1

[ TRANSMISSIONS // KEEP THE SIGNAL INTACT ]

Hear the static.

The complete About text encoded as V.22bis audio. 2400 baud / 8 data bits / no parity / 1 stop bit.

[ DOWNLOAD ABOUT_WEAZL.WAV ]

There’s something in the noise.

This carrier has a secret. Download the WAV and decode it with demmod—or hand it to ChatGPT and see what comes back.

[ DOWNLOAD WEAZL_HEAD.WAV ]

[ REPLAY WEAZL HEAD / 9600 BPS ] [ ORIGINAL HEAD .ANS ] [ ORIGINAL SKYWAY .ANS ]