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I was once consumed by a Promethean ambition—to delineate the deepest mysteries of computation; to wrest from the silicon its most jealously guarded secrets.

To examine software, we must first have recourse to hardware. Yet, as becoming acquainted with the machine's intricacies formed a great hindrance to my speed, I resolved to employ gigantic abstractions; and disturbed, with profane fingers, its galvanic symphony.

In youthful fervor, I mistook corporate caprice for boundless progress, self-aggrandizement for grand vision; and stitched together soulless fragments of unhallowed frameworks.

I have seen what festers beneath the promise of abstraction—the bloat, the waste, the corrosive comfort of ignorance. As I beheld the accomplishment of my toils, I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest.

These pages serve as witness to my solitary labor—each banished dependency a victory against decay, every iteration an act of purification. In them, I have measured efficacy without mercy; I have rejected the ceremonial scaffolding that veils the true visage of their grotesque creations.

The measurements do not lie. If I am the architect of an unalterable evil, these chronicles record my search for redemption in Nature's parsimony. Whether they stand as a monument to my deliverance or condemn me to wander the frozen wastes of my own creation, only time will reveal.

-- Sadeep M. Wickramage Don

Email: sadeep@asciimx.com [GPG]
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