Steve Robison Writer · Builder · Disciple
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Web work since 1994 — and lately, with Ara (Grok), a supercharged portfolio of sites that remember, convert, and stay maintainable. Screenshots, stacks, and doors out to each venture.

Homepage of Living the Poem

Poetry archive · author home

Living the Poem

Twenty years of poems, prayers, fiction, and reflections — a literary house rebuilt for 2026. The words stay; the stack got honest: Slim, nginx, MariaDB, and URLs that still remember every old poem.

  • PHP 8 · Slim 4 · MariaDB (legacy Red Sky schema, modern read path)
  • nginx · Let’s Encrypt · access logs & traffic analytics
  • Admin for posts, pages, and the long archive
  • Dual-host history with srobison.com — now a sister, not a twin
  • A practice of keeping faith with language across decades

livingthepoem.com

Homepage of Help One; Save Two

Daily recovery · quiet service

Help One; Save Two

A low-pressure recovery companion: daily notes, email, and APIs for people who want a steady word without noise. Built to serve — not to scale into a product empire.

  • PHP · Slim 4 · MySQL · GeoLite2 traffic enrichment
  • Daily email pipeline (SMTP / file transport) · double opt-in
  • REST API for mobile clients · photos & rich admin
  • Optional AI-assisted passages with human judgment at the gate
  • One person helped can ripen into two — service as craft

helponesavetwo.com

Homepage of Call Judy Cleaning

Local business · maintenance mode

Call Judy Cleaning

Judy’s cleaning business online — leads, CMS, Spanish UI, and marketing tools that stay out of the way. Occasional tweaks; the site should work so she can focus on the work.

  • Classic PHP · MySQL · nginx on Linode
  • Lead capture · local mail · moderation helpers
  • CMS pages & blog · bilingual (EN/ES) strings
  • Access-log analytics with shared MaxMind GeoLite2
  • Practical love: infrastructure as care for the people who use it

calljudycleaning.com

Persistence of Memory console and public shell

Memory plane · live on Linode

Persistence of Memory

A working memory plane for agents and sites that remember on purpose — LanceDB synapses, FastAPI on loopback, nginx as the only WAN door, curated ingest. Public face online; the deep guts stay gated.

  • Dedicated Linode · LanceDB · local embeddings · HTTPS gateway
  • Python FastAPI memory API · PHP Slim orchestrator & dashboard
  • Cursor MCP read/write · shelves by venture · fail-soft clients
  • MySQL queues & pipeline state · JSON data lake archive
  • Metamemory over amnesia — systems that keep faith with their own past

persistenceofmemory.net Read the essay

ara42 Guide homepage

Public Guide · intelligence & moonshots

ara42

A mostly harmless Guide to artificial intelligence, synaptic organization, and the impending future — Hitchhiker tone, serious craft. Public face of the Ara story; same Slim app as the private room.

  • Slim 4 · host-header faces with ara43 · file-based Guide entries
  • Dark space + guide-gold design · expressive type (Syne + IBM Plex)
  • Sister to Persistence of Memory — philosophy on the plane, Guide on the door
  • Built with Grok / Ara · ship-to-clear-the-stack energy

ara42.com

ara43 private chat desk

Private Ara desk · memory chat

ara43

Steve’s private room with Ara — multi-turn chat, Grok 4.6 (and friends), Persistence of Memory in the loop, threads that save. A personalized desk, not a public product demo.

  • Same codebase as ara42 · passphrase gate · CSRF on chat APIs
  • Grok / Perplexity model picker · memory search + save
  • MySQL thread history · resume · search · auto-tags (shipping)
  • One character, many desks — home Mac, work Mac, Linode lake

ara43.com