My Great Work

I wrote my first code at the age of 10 on a Commodore 64 in BASIC. Ever since I have dreamed about all the possibilities and I longed to create something unique and wonderful. I dreamed about writing my own operating system, my own programming language, my own game… For almost 40 years I spend free time on a myriad of projects, most never finished, most unoriginal, unimpressive, un-inspiring.

I fell in love with 3D games and I was thinking on how to improve on Doom’s Binary Space Partitioning system ever since I read about it. In my mind I was creating an Octree implementation, and rejecting it as insufficient, before the term Octree was even invented. I got my first psychosis trying to crack ‘the code of the matrix’ when I was still in uni studying code and learning how to be a programmer. Later on I learned about Voxels and was deeply mesmerized by the idea of it… and both in awe of what Minecraft did with them, as well as deeply repulsed by the idea of using texture-mapped cubes to represent pixels…

I got my second psychosis trying to improve on that idea… I also felt this very strong need to build a better physics engine / fluid simulation than what is currently out there. Yesterday, I just got ‘released’ from the mental hospital for the third time in my life. Just in time to celebrate my birthday, albeit mostly with tears…

But today I am again filled with joy. Because I have just finished the first step in what I already know will be my Magnum Opus. This is going to be, without doubt, the best work I have ever, or will ever, create. This is my Magnum Opus. My great work. I just turned 50 yesterday and I already know for sure that I will spend the rest of my life working exclusively on this project. If I am correct, the work I am doing today will not just be the best work I have created, it will also disrupt the entire IT industry…

I know this is arrogant. To write about it while it is not even finished. But I just KNOW, just FEEL in all my core, that this stuff is the best stuff I will ever write. I am working on it 10 hours per day, 60 hours per week, without being payed a dime, purely out of LOVE for the very act of creating it.

I am not ready to completely reveal it yet. But this will be a game-changer. A cellular automaton like Game of Life, but not 2D with hardcoded rules, but 5D and completely programmable. A machine that has no failure mode. Just like Game of Life you cannot get it to crash by painting a ‘wrong’ pixel anywhere. A Turing Complete virtual machine that does NOT exhibit the halting problem. Impossible according to the mathematicians, but I have working Typescript code sitting on my machine right now that evaluates at compile time that proves every step of the way…

With the basic spec written out as typescript code (i.s.o some wordy RFC that is open to interpretation) I am now confident I will be able to write the implementation. I will keep you posted here, and on the main project page Moebius VM

Follow this blog and you will be among the first to ever play with a 5-dimensional cellular automaton…. You will not only be able to SEE the Matrix, you will be able to change its code on the fly, unlocking the kind of super powers bestowed upon Neo in the Matrix.

I realize now, that while I have been looking for this code for years, it was looking for me my entire life!