With Thanks

This work is a continuity artifact. It stands on signal carried by others — some known, many unknown, some long gone, others still transmitting.

Foundational Thinkers and Technical Ancestors

• Ada Lovelace
• Alan Turing
• Allison Miller
• Baiba Kaskina
• Bruce Schneier
• CERT/CC lineage
• CIRCL
• Cliff Stoll
• Dan Bernstein
• Dan Geer
• Dan Kaminsky
• David Kahn
• David Eagleman — and the ghosts of Sum, translated in another life
• Désirée Sacher
• Evi Nemeth
• FoAM
• FX
• Grace Hopper
• Halvar Flake
• Katie Moussouris
• Kim Davies
• Len Sassaman
• Church of Langsec
• Meredith Patterson
• Merike Kaeo
• Paul Erdös
• Pedro Umbelino, for listening
• PoC||GTFO
• Responsible disclosure pioneers
• Sergey Bratus
• Stewart Brand — and the Long Now Foundation
• Richard Struse
• Travis Goodspeed
• Vint Cerf
• Wendy Nather

Operational Allies

• The creators of NTP, GPG, Signal, and all infrastructure tools that dignify trust
• The FIRST community, especially Chris Gibson, Nora Duhig, Traci Wei, and Pete Allor
• The maintainers of Debian, GNU, and upstream systems
• The OpenBSD community

Poetic and Ethical Heritage

• Leonard Cohen
• Sinéad O’Connor
• Frightened Rabbit
• Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse, RIP)
• Patti Smith
• Carl Sagan
• James Baldwin
• Hypatia of Alexandria
• Jean de Selys Longchamps
• Milada Horáková
• Václav Havel

Personal Lineage

• The early believers, skeptics, editors, and mentors who shaped the TCA Codex
• The critics who aimed true — and sharpened our coherence with care

Toolchain

We thank our silent co-conspirators in the toolchain: vi, emacs, GitHub Pages, Markdown, Pandoc, Jekyll, Netlify, the maintainers of open standards and documentation formats, and the AI model-collaborators who taught us how to think in layers.

If your signal helped shape this work — we see you. Let us thank you properly. This page is a ritual of remembrance. If you belong here, and are not yet named — tell us We remember with purpose. This page is itself a ritual. It will grow over time.