Codex
Documenting infrastructure rituals, domain claims, and glyphic milestones.
Disclaimer: This site may cause spontaneous myth-making, ritual dancing, and mild confusion in DNS servers.
Fun Fact: This homepage was coded using a pinecone, a VPN tunnel, and the distant hum of a fax machine.
Connect
Follow the codex trail on Mastodon — where the goofy meets the glyphic.
Signal Channels
Encrypted whispers from the pines:
🛡️ Mullvad VPN — Cloak Your Signal in Pine-Scented Privacy
Why Mullvad?
Because surveillance is boring, and being mapped by data brokers is a cosmic insult. Mullvad is the VPN for those who reject the algorithmic gaze. No email. No name. Just an account number and a tunnel to freedom.
What Makes It Sovereign:
🌲 No personal info required — just generate an account number and go
🔐 Open-source, privacy-first, and radically transparent
🧭 Based in Sweden, outside the 5/9/14 Eyes surveillance alliances
💸 Flat €5/month pricing since 2009 — no upsells, no nonsense
How I Use It:
I route my traffic through Malmö like a digital ghost. It pairs perfectly with the Mullvad Browser for full-spectrum stealth. Whether I’m summoning lore, gaming across continents, or just browsing absurd rituals, Mullvad keeps my signal clean.
Support Them:
If you value privacy, consider visiting Mullvad’s site and joining the resistance. No affiliate link. No tracking. Just a nod to the mythos.
Goofy Zone
Welcome to the part of the site where logic takes a nap and the mythos gets weird.
Today’s ritual: Summon a sandwich using only HTML and sheer willpower.
About
Architected by Orrin D. Holmbeck—mythmaker, strategist, and sovereign steward of the off-grid web.
First Principles
I didn’t start with mythos. I started with confusion.
I wanted to learn how to code—simple as that. But every tutorial, every tool, every login came with a shadow: trackers, telemetry, surveillance defaults. So I started asking questions. Then I started building.
This site is the result of that journey. Not a manifesto. Not a movement. Just one person trying to understand the systems we live inside—and how to reclaim a little autonomy from them.
I learned privacy hygiene because I had to. I built infrastructure rituals because the defaults felt wrong. I wrapped it all in absurd lore because it made the work feel alive.
If you’re here to learn, question, or build—welcome. You don’t need to believe in pine-scented VPN tunnels or DNS ley lines. You just need to care about the signal.
This page is the quiet part. The rest of the site is loud on purpose.
We live in a digital landscape where companies like Google, Meta, and Amazon harvest staggering amounts of data—location, behavior, identity—often without meaningful consent. Surveillance capitalism isn’t just invasive; it’s structural. It’s baked into the defaults, hidden behind convenience, and monetized at scale.
Privacy isn’t a luxury—it’s a prerequisite for autonomy. That’s why this site rejects trackers, telemetry, and algorithmic profiling. It’s why I use open-source tools, self-hosted infrastructure, and encrypted channels. Not because it’s easy, but because it’s necessary.
Peer-to-peer sharing is part of that resistance. It’s how we reclaim distribution, decentralize control, and build networks that honor trust instead of extract it. Whether it’s music, knowledge, or infrastructure rituals, P2P is the backbone of digital sovereignty.
This site is a node in that network. A quiet signal in the noise. A place to learn, question, and build without being watched.
When not codex-logging infrastructure rituals, Orrin can be found whispering to routers and bartering with squirrels.
🜲 At Third Degree Media, privacy isn’t a feature—it’s a foundational ritual. This node rejects surveillance capitalism, algorithmic profiling, and the commodification of identity. No cookies. No trackers. No whispered secrets to data brokers. Just pure signal, cloaked in pine-scented anonymity.
We believe in:
- Radical transparency without personal exposure
- Open-source tools that honor autonomy
- Digital independence through infrastructure rituals and absurd lore
Whether codex-logging router placements or mythologizing VPN tunnels, this site stands as a glyphic archive for those who value freedom over friction, and sovereignty over convenience.
☕🍺 Fuel the Codex
If you enjoy these sovereign rituals and goofy glyphs, you can keep the cabin lights glowing by buying me an IPA (my favorite 🍺) or a coffee (for long nights of coding ☕).