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Phase 1: content source of truth — 40 documents across six areas

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Satisfies the Phase 1 Definition of Done:

- content/ validates cleanly against the frozen schema. `make validate`
  reports OK: 40 document(s) validated, 0 violations.
- Six areas exist, each with an L1 entry: ai-overview, platform-overview,
  edge-overview, products-overview, history-overview, about-overview.
- All six areas have an L2 entry: ai-systems, platform-estate, edge-fleet,
  products-business, history-engagements, about-narrative.
- 28 L3 artefact stubs under content/<area>/l3/. Every artefacts[].url in
  every document resolves to one of them; the validator proves there are no
  dangling references (and a deliberately broken copy exits 1).
- Every metric value traces to a source line in the evidence notes or the
  approved metric set in reference/content-map.md (per-metric citations are
  recorded in the AUD-131 completion comment).
- Every document carries confidence and last_verified=2026-10-26; the
  validator rejects a missing or non-canonical value.
- docs/content-redaction.md records the redaction pass: identifiers, third
  party personal data, credentials and infrastructure detail excluded, with
  reasons, plus the two numbers that are reported rather than smoothed.

Honesty positions held: 3 businesses active (12 adoptions over time),
Where-Woof deployed and pre-market, failures kept in (edge-failures), no
promotion of in-progress work to delivered.

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id: about-narrative
area: about
level: 2
title: "The narrative — including the years that need explaining"
claim: "A self-taught career across six technology eras — interrupted on purpose by a non-IT working life and five years overseas — with 2020 to 2026 spent raising two children while building a business."
confidence: running
period: "1999–"
tech: [NixOS, Neovim, Python, JavaScript, React, Go, HTMX]
metrics: [{label: "years shipping software", value: 25}, {label: "years spent overseas", value: 5}, {label: "non-IT roles worked", value: 6}]
artefacts: [{type: doc, label: "Non-IT working history", url: "content/about/l3/about-non-it-work.md"}, {type: doc, label: "Education", url: "content/about/l3/about-education.md"}, {type: doc, label: "Interests — one honest line each", url: "content/about/l3/about-interests.md"}]
public: true
last_verified: 2026-10-26
tags: [about, narrative, 2020-2026]
---
# The narrative — including the years that need explaining
**Capability statement.** Someone who learned by doing, in public, on deadlines, and who has kept learning after the deadlines stopped being someone else's. The range is real and the gaps are stated.
## The beginning
Programming started as a childhood interest in the 1980s, self-taught alongside art, music, philosophy and sport. The career proper started in the late 1990s building websites for an Australian car marketplace. When interactive front ends arrived — a creative layer that needed a technical spine — there was no course to take, so it was learned directly and immediately put into commercial work. That combination, creative front end with engineering underneath, has been the shape of the work ever since.
## The agency years
Freelance in Melbourne, then full-time roles in the United Kingdom during the emergence of online gaming and interactive advertising, then back to freelance where the work was with the largest agencies and their clients — banks, broadcasters, drinks brands, publishers, a global energy company, a design software vendor. Most of it was delivered under deadlines that could not move, and a meaningful share of it was rescue work: rewriting someone else's stalled project and shipping it on their date.
## The other working life
Not all of it was software, and that is worth stating rather than hiding. Six roles outside technology — a ski chalet kitchen in the French Alps, wine service, guided horse tours in the Victorian high country, building a stable complex, state government administration, and thoroughbred stable work. They are the reason the engineering reads as practical: a kitchen at service and a production incident have the same shape.
## The education
A fine arts degree with philosophy, a master's in international relations and contemporary political theory, and study in music composition and economics. None of it is computer science, and all of it is used: systems thinking, argument, aesthetics, and the habit of asking what a thing is actually for.
## 2020 to 2026 — stated plainly
This period is on the page because a résumé that hides it invites the wrong question. It was spent as a full-time parent to two children while building in parallel:
- A digital signage business taken from idea to customers — the product, the deployments, the support.
- A site builder and CMS that carried the marketing for it.
- A lost-property tag system, deployed.
- A homelab that became the platform for everything else: declarative configuration, containers, backups, networking, public ingress.
- An AI estate — pipelines, routing, retrieval, voice, guardrails — built and operated on the same hardware.
- A deliberate move from PHP and front-end scripting into Go, systems work and platform engineering, and from hand-installed servers into reproducible configuration.
The honest framing is in the evidence notes and is repeated here: *full-time parent, building in parallel*. The output of those years is on the rest of this site and can be inspected.
## What next
The same three areas at a larger scale: AI and agentic systems, the platform engineering underneath them, and the constrained devices at the edge. Melbourne based and flexible about location and format — remote, hybrid, office, or travel.
## Contact policy
This site publishes no address, no phone number and no family details. Contact is by email, with the address supplied directly rather than scraped from a page. If a phone number belongs on the site, that is Sam's decision to make and it is not made here.
## Trade-offs and limits
- **No computer science degree.** The trade is a longer, broader practical education; the pages on this site are the argument, not the certificate.
- **A period of self-employment is described as such.** It is not dressed up as a sabbatical or as consulting.
- **Interests are one honest sentence each.** The previous version of this site invented venues and results. That has been deleted rather than corrected in place.
## Drill-downs
- [Non-IT working history](l3/about-non-it-work.md) — level 3
- [Education](l3/about-education.md) — level 3
- [Interests — one honest line each](l3/about-interests.md) — level 3
- [The AI estate](../ai/ai-systems.md) — level 2
- [The platform estate](../platform/platform-estate.md) — level 2
- [The edge fleet](../edge/edge-fleet.md) — level 2
## Period and confidence
`period: 1999–`. Confidence is `running`: this is the current self-description, verified against the evidence notes on 2026-10-26.

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id: about-overview
area: about
level: 1
title: "About"
claim: "Twenty-five years of shipping software — built through self-teaching · a non-IT working life · and five years overseas — now aimed at AI systems · the platforms under them and the devices at the edge."
confidence: running
period: "1999–"
tech: [NixOS, Neovim, Python, JavaScript, React, Go, HTMX]
metrics: [{label: "years shipping software", value: 25}, {label: "years spent overseas", value: 5}, {label: "non-IT roles worked", value: 6}]
artefacts: [{type: doc, label: "Non-IT working history", url: "content/about/l3/about-non-it-work.md"}, {type: doc, label: "Education", url: "content/about/l3/about-education.md"}, {type: doc, label: "Interests — one honest line each", url: "content/about/l3/about-interests.md"}]
public: true
last_verified: 2026-10-26
tags: [about, narrative, background]
---
# About
**Claim.** A career built by self-teaching — from a childhood in the 1980s with a borrowed language reference, through fifteen years of agency delivery, a working life outside technology, and five years overseas — now concentrated on AI systems, the platforms they run on, and the hardware at the edge.
**Status.** Current. Melbourne based, and flexible about how the work is done — remote, hybrid, office, or travel.
**What this page is for.** The other five areas prove what can be built. This one explains where the judgement came from: a non-technical working life, a fine-arts and philosophy education, and a period spent building a business while raising two children.
**Start here.** [The narrative](about-narrative.md) — including an honest account of 2020 to 2026.

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---
id: about-education
area: about
level: 3
title: "Artefact — Education"
claim: "A fine arts degree with philosophy · a master's in international relations and contemporary political theory · and study in music composition and economics."
confidence: historic
period: "1997–"
tech: []
metrics: [{label: "tertiary qualifications completed", value: 2}]
artefacts: []
public: true
last_verified: 2026-10-26
tags: [about, education, artefact]
---
# Artefact — Education
**Status: stub.** Formal presentation lands in Phase 7. No certificates, transcripts or student identifiers are published.
## The record
- **Master of International Relations and Contemporary Political Theory** — University of Westminster, Centre for the Study of Democracy.
- **Bachelor of Visual Communication and Fine Arts** — RMIT (Melbourne) and the University of South Australia, 1997–1999.
- **Music composition and economics** — studied at La Trobe University alongside the composition work described under interests.
## What it proves
Two things the technical record cannot: formal training in argument and political economy, and formal training in visual judgement. Domain-switching is a habit rather than a claim — the degrees are in different fields from each other and from the career.
## Why no computer science degree
Because there is not one, and saying so is cheaper than having it discovered. The self-taught path is documented across this site: the History pages show the eras, the Platform and Edge pages show what came of them.
## Coverage limit
Qualification names, awarding institutions and the years the résumé states are published. Grades, student numbers and the master's completion year are not in the sources and are therefore not stated.

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id: about-interests
area: about
level: 3
title: "Artefact — Interests · one honest line each"
claim: "Fourteen pursuits with one true sentence each — and the invented venues · results and trips from the previous version of this site deleted rather than restated."
confidence: running
period: "1980–"
tech: []
metrics: [{label: "pursuits listed", value: 15}, {label: "bands played in", value: 2}, {label: "bee hives kept", value: 2}]
artefacts: []
public: true
last_verified: 2026-10-26
tags: [about, interests, artefact]
---
# Artefact — Interests · one honest line each
**Status: stub for the visual treatment.**
## Music
Blues and jazz piano and blues harp; played in two bands. Studied music composition at university and kept the piano as the thing that resets the week.
## Fine art
A fine arts degree and a continuing practice. Drawing and painting taught patience with iteration, which is most of debugging.
## Philosophy
A degree's worth of it, and it is where the habit of asking what a thing is actually for came from.
## Skiing
Italy, France, Japan and Australia. Six months based in Meribel in the French Alps as a chalet chef, including the Vallée Blanche glacier run.
## Camping
Hiking, camping and canoeing, mostly in Victoria. Most recent: a two-day hike through Wilsons Promontory with a group of teenagers in tow.
## Canoeing
The Yarra, the Otways and the Murray.
## Horse riding
Grew up riding in the Otways; broke horses from track work back to dressage; guided tours in the Victorian high country; competed in dressage for two years.
## Surfing
Grew up between Lorne and the Otways, on waves and horses.
## Hiking
The walking version of the camping answer: long days, small pack, no phone signal.
## Global politics
The master's was in it. Reading it is a habit, not a credential to display.
## Reading
History, philosophy, politics, economics — the same four subjects as the degrees, which is either consistency or a rut.
## Cooking
Worked in many restaurants and as chef in a five-star chalet in Meribel, France.
## Gardening
Permaculture and a wood-chip, low-input approach to self-sufficiency, with sensors and automation doing the boring parts.
## Food production
Bees, salami and cheese. Two hives, and salami made annually from four pigs with Italian friends in Benalla.
## Italy and travel
Five years spent overseas, travelling extensively, with Italy as the standing preference.
## What was deleted, and why
The previous site claimed venues, competition results, swell sizes, distances and named restaurants. None of it could be traced. It has been cut rather than corrected: a single true sentence is worth more than ten specific ones that cannot be substantiated, and an interviewer who asks a follow-up question is entitled to an answer that survives it.
## Coverage limit
Everything above traces to Sam's own notes. Anything not in those notes is absent, not paraphrased.

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id: about-non-it-work
area: about
level: 3
title: "Artefact — Non-IT working history"
claim: "Six roles outside technology — a chalet kitchen in the French Alps · wine service · guided horse tours · a stable build · government administration · thoroughbred stable work."
confidence: historic
period: "1990–2010"
tech: []
metrics: [{label: "non-IT roles worked", value: 6}]
artefacts: []
public: true
last_verified: 2026-10-26
tags: [about, history, work, artefact]
---
# Artefact — Non-IT working history
**Status: stub for the visual treatment.** The roles are final; the presentation lands in Phase 7.
## The roles
| Role | Where | What it involved |
|---|---|---|
| Chalet chef | Merribel, France | Meals for chalet guests, kitchen operations, menu planning, dietary requirements, in a high-pressure alpine season |
| Wine waiter | South Australia and Victoria | Premium wine regions, varietals, food pairing |
| Horseback tour guide | Victorian high country | Guided tours, rider safety, horse welfare, trail navigation |
| Stable construction | Mount Beauty, Victoria | A 24-bay stable build — project management, budgeting, hands-on construction |
| Civil servant | Victorian State Government, Melbourne | Administrative and operational support to state-level programs |
| Horse trainer and stable hand | Sunbury, Victoria | Care and training of thoroughbreds, exercise, grooming, race-day preparation |
## What it proves
That the engineering sits on a wider working life. Kitchen service and production incidents share a shape; guiding strangers on horses in the high country is risk management with consequences; a stable build is a budget and a schedule held by hand. These are the reasons the technical pages read as practical rather than academic.
## Why this is on a technical site
Because leaving it out would make the career look narrower than it is, and because the years it occupies are otherwise unexplained.
## Coverage limit
Descriptions are limited to what the résumé and the evidence notes corroborate. Roles, employers' towns and the type of work are stated; no employer is named beyond the region, and no claim is made about scale, revenue or headcount that the sources do not carry.