About the author

Andraž Đurič

I am a Slovenian writer, developer and philosophical autodidact. That biography is context, not evidence that my work is correct. Judge the claims by their reasoning and evidence, and the tools by what they actually do.

What connects my work

I want to understand reality as well as I can, notice when I am wrong, and update accordingly. My writing, software and creative work are different ways of exploring, learning and making things.

I publish my writing under the name Epistemic Forge. The writing and the software inform one another, but neither is authority for the other. Creative work also has room to be an experience in its own right.

Why I make and share things

I often begin with something I want to understand, a tool I want to use, or an idea I want to bring into the world. Sharing that work lets it become useful to others and open to correction and improvement.

I want people to be able to understand the tools they use, keep control of their work, and take it with them when their tools change. Each project has its own purpose, limits and present state.

I share it with the aim of supporting your persistence, whether through understanding, capability, efficiency or creative experience. That intention does not guarantee a benefit from every encounter.

Politics and access

Of the major economic traditions, I least disagree with Marxist philosophy of economy where it connects to ethics, epistemology and power. I do not treat any complete political system as a finished answer.

The practical consequence here is that access to knowledge and useful tools should not belong only to those with purchasing power. The work I publish here is freely accessible. I do not want access financed through surveillance, manipulation, or making people dependent on a service they cannot leave.

Optional donations support the work; they do not unlock content or functionality. Free access and permission to reuse are different: each work’s own licence applies.

Working with AI

AI systems have been collaborators, implementers and adversarial readers across this work. They help me explore, challenge, organize and build ideas at a scale I could not have reached alone.

They are not oracles, and I do not outsource responsibility to them. I remain responsible for the claims I publish, the code I release, and the consequences I can reasonably foresee.