Web Design & Custom System Builds

Websites

Would you like a site designed at a reasonable cost. Contact me to discuss your needs. I can handle everything from organising your domain and hosting, to site through to design, and maintenance. My area of passion is making a site that is affordable and a learning opportunity. Whilst many services offer web design my focus  is to build capacity as well as building a site. My approach is to offer  a pathway for prospective site owners to learn the skills needed to manage their own site, build pages and interactive elements. If learning as the site grows is you, then I may be the right person for you.

 

Web Apps

Vibe coding has become a key part of the development cycle for websites and apps. There has been a proliferation of AI supported tools that can help make an app for your own purpose. This is an area of great interest to me. Vibe coding is a way of prototyping an idea and building it rapidly. If you are looking to test an idea this is definitely a good direction to take. It wont take the code out of coding especially on bigger projects but it may well mean you can put together a winning concept to attract funding application to get your idea off the ground. Alternatively your app can just be for you and your family to make things easier. If you want to explore this get in contact, fastigiata-systems@proton.me

 

 

Cybersecurity Companion

Here is an example of a simple web app designed to pull together a set of skills and tools in the area of cybersecurity.

Your Machine, Reimagined

Legacy System Builds

Need a system? a secure system with the tools you need at your fingertips. Do you have older "legacy" hardware you love? or are you like me and hate eWaste. I can help you get a fast affordable computing solution based 100% on free and open source software. Custom Linux systems can be made fit your level of ability, and your budget. Open source computer systems can be customised in ways that conventional windows and even mac systems can't. A huge range of software is available courtesy of worldwide community of developers and include applications for design, coding, digital art, sound production , cybersecurity all the bay through to basic productivity and office suites.

I can help you build your own custom system for your own needs using your own hardware or help you source suitable legacy hardware to start your build and set you in the direction of computing freedom away from big tech. I specialise in extending the life of Apple hardware beyond support from its maker. Like website design my aim is to empower and support people to find their own technological solutions.

Linux can be anything you want it to be. Linux itself is the kernel or core which a system can be built around. Most if not all modern linux distributions all for a large amount of customisation to their user interface. Whilst Linux is used by many professionals for coding or on secure servers it is also suitable for everyday use. There are multitudes of different linux distributions which like flavours can be chosen to suit your needs and uses.

 

Reduce your footprint

E-Waste

E-Waste remains a very real consequence of technological advance and often the product of planned system obsolescence. When computers die they don't compost... as useful as they are to our daily lives in death they do not serve our environment well. Linux in many of its forms can transform a slow or sluggish windows machine, or unsupported, obsolete Mac into a very functional and fast computing system. Linux compared to Windows 11 or Mac OS can run with much less RAM giving more memory space and better performance from apps installed on the machine. The OS within Linux choices are large and reflect a diverse and global user base, and beneath that user experiences and destop environments can either parallel existing windows or macos environments or be tightly customised to use case.

Add to that the huge range of free software, and the fact  you can, if you want set in place a healthy independence from big tech without losing access to modern software tools. In so much of our day to day computing our apps and services live  the cloud, all that many need is a capable secure web browser, a decent internet connection and a secure device of any system architecture to run a such tools, just because a user choses an open source and free operating system does not mean they need to surrender the functionality needed to use MS Office or access your icloud photos.

Email me to find out more. fastigiata@proton.me

 

Upcyle your Mac, PC and tablet devices

If you have an old windows or Mac Laptop or desktop I can help you repurpose it, and give it a longer working life. Older machines can run Linux operating systems often very well, sometimes faster than they were new. 

Once configured they can be repurposed as a home server for photos or media, a secure web browsing to advanced mathematical and scientific purposes for study. Linux is also the best system out there for coders or pen testers in the making.