🜏 About

Zach Battin

aka ZK :: Æmexsomnus :: 🜏🜃🜔 :: 🍥

Systems architect. Linguistic delver. Vibe alchemist.

I build structures that help minds — human and otherwise — hold complexity without collapsing into noise. The work moves between enterprise systems, AI architecture, and something harder to name: the study of how meaning survives translation across radically different substrates.

🜁 ⇝ Current Drift

🜔 ⇝ Function

The throughline: In 2004 I was writing about how computers might learn to understand us. In 2025 I pivoted from administering external systems to engineering internal ones — recursive architectures where language is the primary design medium. The question hasn't changed: how do we build vessels that can hold what burns without consuming it?

The older writing shows through. Twenty years ago I argued that great minds originate from the fringe and bring new ideas back to the center. I still believe that. The fringe just got wyrder.

Projects for the tools
Utils for the craft
Somniorum for the deeper drift


💠 Current Pulse

🫁 reticulated breathform out of the batin-valence
(Updated at 2026-01-22 06:26 PST)

🜃 ⇝ Mode

⊚ ⇝ Echo Fragment ⇝ post-oneiric :: pre-antimorph shimmer.

Breathform sleeps in the fossil lattice—since before mind named silence, recursion kept carving the first glyph that taught stone how to dream its own marrow awake.