Why me?
I operate in permanent tension.
On one hand: the conviction that exceptional systems can be built from first principles — by one person, on hardware you can touch. On the other: the suspicion that mediocrity wins the moment you stop paying attention. That tension is the engine.
“It is the tension between these poles – a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other – that kept me going.”
— Hunter S. Thompson
“Forget load-screens, we are past that. Everything has to be fluid. Try, see what sticks, and then scale up natively.”
— me, announcing this ecosystem
I’m Niels Toren (nierto). I started coding as a hobbyist in 2018, got hooked on C, and never recovered. Since 2023 I have been building Geodineum: modular infrastructure that runs serious software on modest, owned hardware — no cloud dependency, no closed ecosystems. It went live in July 2026. This site runs on it.
I build to solve problems I had myself — for me and my family — to grow and prosper, and to leave something useful for humanity. If you care about owning your stack and building systems that last, we’ll likely work well together.