Voyage 001
Foundation
Complete
Identity, website foundation, documentation, Git workflow, and core architecture.
Compass Rose
Guided by purpose.
Built to last.
Compass Rose is the personal platform behind this site and the systems around it — a place for photography, exploration, self-hosting, documentation, experiments, and the things I want to preserve over time.
What it is
More than the website.
Compass Rose is the broader personal digital environment around fdclark.com. It connects the places where I share things with the systems that store, organize, document, and preserve them. The point is not to make everything elaborate. It is to understand what I have built and give it room to grow carefully.
- fdclark.com
- Home server & NAS
- Photography and video
- Documentation
- Automation
- Long-term archives
Voyages roadmap
A gradual way forward.
Each voyage gives one part of Compass Rose the attention it needs before the next begins.
Voyage 002
Harbor
In Progress
Deploy the new NAS, establish storage, backups, recovery, networking, and self-hosted services.
Voyage 003
Bearings
Planned
Refine workflows for photography, media, organization, and automation.
Voyage 004
Horizon
Planned
Expand Compass Rose with deeper personal archives, stories, galleries, and useful tools.
Voyage 005
Lighthouse
Planned
A mature, durable personal platform designed to remain understandable and maintainable over the long term.
Current systems
What is taking shape.
- fdclark.com
- Live
- Photography
- Live
- On the Water
- Live
- Projects
- Live
- Home Server & NAS
- In Progress
- Documentation
- In Progress
- Automation & Experiments
- Planned
Philosophy
Guided by purpose. Built to last.
The goal is to own and understand the systems, document the decisions behind them, and avoid complexity that does not earn its place. It is a way to preserve memories and useful information while building something that can evolve gradually and remain understandable over time.