Arthouse through software.

Since 2022, Qwaderton was meant to be more than just a small, personal research lab.

Despite my age when I started, I genuinely believed I could build something with lasting impact—a socially meaningful company or a dedicated independent development studio capable of crafting software from the ground up. I saw how modern software was becoming bloated, dependent, closed, and suffocating. I wanted to fight that.

Then came February 24, 2022, shattering the trajectory of the future.

Over the past four years, the environment around us degenerated into pure toxicity. By mid-2026, we passed the point of no return: from an internet that was at least partially functional to burning factories, routine "white-list" network lockouts, intrusive surveillance injected into mandatory domestic software, and forced system certificate spoofing. In August 2026, when the last remaining anti-war party running under the banner "For Peace and Freedom! For a Life Without Fear!" was stripped of its right to participate in parliamentary elections, it became unmistakably clear—there is no space left for open creation.

I built the Free and Bloatless Software Definition and drafted the Qwaderton Free and Bloatless Software License (QFBL). It was my attempt to defend digital sovereignty—a strict Network Copyleft standard designed to block the SaaS loop, eliminate binary blobs, outlaw mandatory telemetry, prohibit proprietary toolchain dependencies, and force local hardware autonomy. I wanted software to remain clean, transparent, and unencumbered.

I had the potential, the vision, and the architecture. But no amount of engineering potential can survive when the surrounding environment becomes utterly hostile to human freedom and basic survival. It is impossible to build long-term systems when the ground beneath you is constantly being eroded.