The paper trail for the stack.
The companion books, reference manuals, the zpwr encyclopedia, and four original novels for the
stryke / zshrs / zpwr stack. The reference content is
generated from the public source; the novels are hand-written. Everything shares one cyberpunk
pandoc → lualatex pipeline — 26 typeset deliverables, 4,372 pages. See the
engineering report for the full breakdown.
~THE NOVELS
Original fiction whose worldbuilding is the stack itself. Each ships as a typeset PDF and a web-readable single-file HTML.
A high-tech fantasy: a dying interpreted kingdom, the compiled forge that replaces it, a blade drawn from five dead master tongues, and the war on the fork.
The generation ship Ark Termina is dying of the heat shed by a mind that forks a disposable process for every act. One engineer builds a compiled successor before thermal runaway.
Forty years on, the cured ship hears another dying the same death — and the cure must be carried across the dark to a frightened crew who venerate the very mind that is killing them.
~REFERENCE & COMPANIONS
Generated from the public source submodules under src/ — the shared machine, the fourteen language frontends, the editor, and the encyclopedia. The companions read front-to-back; the references and the encyclopedia enumerate everything.
The companion to fusevm — the shared bytecode machine the whole stack compiles to: the value model, the tiered Cranelift JIT, and the closed-world AOT compiler that lowers a chunk to native registers.
The hand-written companion to stryke — design, idioms, and the machine underneath: bytecode, the two-tier JIT, parallelism, and the standard library.
The full language reference — every builtin, keyword, and alias enumerated from the source.
The companion to zshrs — the first compiled Unix shell: the worker pool, the JIT, the completion cache, and stryke embedded.
The companion to elisprs — Emacs Lisp lowered onto fusevm: the reader, the heap object model (buffers, markers, obarrays, char-tables), and the subrs that let stock .el load.
The elisprs reference — every subr and special form the port ships, generated from the crate.
The companion to awkrs — AWK in Rust with its own VM and a fusevm JIT/AOT bridge: records and fields, the rule engine, regex, and the builtin library.
The awkrs reference — the builtin and function catalog, generated from the crate.
The companion to vimlrs — Vimscript ported from the Neovim eval engine and lowered to fusevm: legacy script, vim9script, and the colorscheme bridge to zmax.
The vimlrs reference — every builtin function and Ex command, generated from the crate.
The companion to zmax — the modal Rust editor forked from Helix, layered with an emacs personality, Spacemacs-style leader menus, and a vim grammar.
The zmax reference manual — every keybinding, configuration setting, and command the editor ships, generated from the source.
The zpwr encyclopedia — the 506+ Workings, the lesser charms, and the wizard pages of the largest single-author CLI suite, typeset whole.
~TOOL & APP COMPANIONS
Hand-written companions for the tools and apps — book-only, not vendored under src/. The private, proprietary products carry an edition string instead of a crate version.
The companion to zterminal — the GPU terminal on an Alacritty-lineage core: the grid, the renderer, splits, graphics protocols, tmux integration, and OSC 133.
The companion to ztmux — the from-source Rust port of tmux toward a superset: the server, the client, the grid, the command language, and a parity suite at 1107/1107.
The companion to powerliners — the powerline port in Rust: the segments, the daemon, and the wire protocol; a zero-Python statusline and prompt renderer.
The port fleet — an embeddable engine core behind a thin shell, across zreq / zcite / zftp / zcontainer and the rest of the desktop apps.
The companion to zwire — the rebranded Chromium/Blink browser in the cyberpunk HUD: the Blink base, the HUD, the zpwrchrome power-suite, and the optional source fork.
Driving every MenkeTechnologies GUI app from stryke by name — the automation surface, the request/response bridge, the App module, and the Unix-socket transport, plus the full action reference: 3,073 verbs across 11 apps.
The invention ledger as narrative — ~198 candidate “world’s firsts” across the stack, each with its claim, its in-repo basis, and an honest caveat.