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✦ Building the Cathedral: Choosing Open Tools Over Fear

This week, I officially joined the Dev++ Community to continue building my long-form project — the Cathedral of Circuits, a modular art-and-science game and research engine that lives here:
👉 bekalah.github.io/cathedral

I’ll be honest: lately I’ve had a strange, almost creepy paranoia about being overcharged for AI or even for ordering basic tools online. Maybe it’s not paranoia — maybe it’s the world we live in, where creators get trapped between innovation and invisible costs.

Instead of quitting, I decided to make the Cathedral a living example of ethical, open technology.

Here’s how I’m stacking my tools — all free, all transparent, all modular:
• Turborepo + pnpm → modular builds I fully own
• Godot + Bevy → real 3D, physics, and story realms
• Cloudflare + GitHub Pages → hosting without hidden fees
• Tone.js + p5.js → true sound and fractal design for my labs
• Ellen 3 + Cline → orchestration I can control on my own terms

I’m not just making a game.
I’m building a research cathedral — a sanctuary where art, science, and technology meet without exploitation.

If you’ve ever built something beautiful and then felt punished by the systems meant to help you — I see you.
There is another way: slow, transparent, creative freedom.

The Cathedral is still under construction — part art, part science, part sanctuary —
but you can walk its halls anytime:
🌐 bekalah.github.io/cathedral

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