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IPS Background

Internet Publishing System (IPS)

Decentralized CMS & Lightweight Network Operating System

Project Overview

  • Full name: Internet Publishing System (IPS)
  • Core description: A decentralized Content Management System (CMS) and lightweight Network Operating System (Net OS)
  • Design goals: Speed, simplicity, sovereignty, and performance-first web publishing/infrastructure
  • Key innovation: Merges content authoring with net-layer control in a decentralized way
  • Technical foundation: Built and heavily tuned for BSD operating systems (FreeBSD, GhostBSD, DragonFly BSD)
  • Browser-based advantage: Works instantly in any modern browser with no installation required

My Role & History at VRx

  • Involved with IPS since September 2015
  • Current title: Senior Systems Architect & Lead Developer
  • Responsibilities include IPS Editor development, parallelized website editing tools, BSD server integrations, DNS/hosting infrastructure, DDoS mitigation, and NAS server setup

How I Use IPS in Daily Life & Real Projects

  • Daily Digital Tech Archive - Store and organize everything digital about my life in one secure cloud-based system.
  • 2026 - Music Archive & Tabs - Daily use for organizing my personal music collection and guitar tabs.
  • 2025 - Gardening Business & Hobby - Daily documentation of vegetable plant business and hobby with photos and records.
  • 2024 - Book Writing - Wrote and published an entire book on the science of seed gardening directly in IPS.
  • Code Documentation & Development - Edit code directly in IPS, keep files organized, and use built-in versioning.
  • Side Business Marketing - Designed flyers and promotional materials for my vegetable plant sales business.
  • Scientific Research Archiving - Collect, tag, and organize scientific articles and papers.
  • Scientific Paper Production - Compiled images, links, data, and text to write and submit a scientific paper on killifish.
  • Cucurbita Species Monograph - Wrote and published a full monograph on Cucurbita species using IPS.
  • OCADU Digital Tech Newsletter - Ongoing since 2015 - create, edit, and publish the entire newsletter in IPS.

Current Experiments

Running a private beta with guest login access for local artists and musicians in Toronto for real-world feedback and exposure.

Future Goals