Website Development and Government Shutdown Update

October 2, 2025. rswfire is in his usual location on the coast, experiencing the return of autumn rains. Government shutdown has him in a holding pattern, unable to move or perform volunteer duties. He's focused on website development work from his current position.

Energetic Signature

steady exposition

Field State

tool demonstration under limitation

Orientation

toward infrastructure completion despite constraint

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October 2, 2025

8:06

View on YouTube

Author

rswfire

Status

ARCHIVED

Type

TRANSMISSION (CAPTURE)

Temperature

0.00

[0:00]Hello audience.

[0:03]So, you'll notice my camera is turned in

[0:04]portrait mode, which I don't do very

[0:07]often, but I'm going to try again. But,

[0:09]see, I can see that I'm not looking at

[0:11]the lens, and that's problematic. I

[0:14]portrait mode, it's just way better.

[0:16]Looks more natural to me, but I can't

[0:18]stare at that little dot. So, I look at

[0:21]my I look at myself when I'm recording.

[0:23]So, that was one of the reasons I

[0:25]started posting in portrait mode. But

[0:28]I'm encountering a technical issue that

[0:30]I can't seem to solve easily. So on my

[0:33]transmission section on my website, I

[0:36]was trying to make it so that if it was

[0:38]a portrait mode video, it would show the

[0:41]I frame that it's in and the right

[0:43]orientation, but YouTube just doesn't

[0:45]make this possible. So I'd have to use

[0:48]my own embedded um video player in order

[0:51]to do what I want to do. It's just a

[0:52]whole lot of work and craziness. And the

[0:55]simpler, easier solution is to just

[0:57]start recording in in landscape mode.

[1:01]So, I guess that's what we're doing.

[1:05]Just thought I'd get on this camera for

[1:06]a minute and talk about my life.

[1:10]Um, cuz it's an interesting place, I

[1:13]guess.

[1:16]So, let me think about what I really

[1:18]want to say here.

[1:22]It's first day of October.

[1:25]My favorite month. Probably my favorite

[1:28]month pretty much all of my life. I love

[1:30]autumn.

[1:32]The rains have returned to the coast.

[1:33]It's been wonderful.

[1:36]Just soft rain on and off for the last

[1:38]couple of days.

[1:42]Really loved it last year. So, I've been

[1:44]looking forward to it coming back. And

[1:45]here it is.

[1:48]Um, as everyone knows, the government is

[1:51]shut down, which is that affects my role

[1:53]as a volunteer for a federal agency. So,

[1:57]um, we've been told not to do any work.

[1:59]Some of our campgrounds are open, some

[2:01]are closed. It's, um, and some of our

[2:04]people are fured and some aren't.

[2:08]I was hoping I could move at least to

[2:10]the corridor where I'm going to be when

[2:11]I switch roles, but this wasn't

[2:13]possible. Once everything shut down, I

[2:15]just were told to stay still. So, that's

[2:18]what I'm doing.

[2:21]Um,

[2:23]been working on my homepage. Like I

[2:24]mentioned,

[2:27]there's a lot I'm doing on there that

[2:28]I'm very proud of. I'm going to share

[2:30]soon. Um, so I don't know I don't know

[2:34]if you know this, but all of my videos

[2:36]that I've been making on YouTube for two

[2:38]years are available on my website. You

[2:41]just got to go to rswfire.com,

[2:43]click on the transmission section. Um,

[2:47]you can find it at the top. You know,

[2:48]there's these little icons there, all

[2:50]these different sections. I've been

[2:51]doing a lot of work to this for the past

[2:53]6 months. Look for the one that says

[2:55]transmission. Just go to the homepage

[2:57]and scroll down a little ways. You'll

[2:58]see the section for it. Um, or go to the

[3:02]description of this video. There's a

[3:03]link that'll take you directly to this

[3:05]video on my homepage. And from there,

[3:07]you can just start looking around.

[3:10]So, I added a timeline feature. It's got

[3:12]this little bar and a whole bunch of

[3:13]little circles. Each circle is a

[3:15]different video. And if you hover over

[3:16]it, it'll show you what video it is.

[3:17]There's more I'm going to do to this,

[3:18]but that's the basics part for now. It

[3:21]looks better on desktop than mobile. I'm

[3:23]still working on some of the mobile

[3:24]stuff.

[3:26]So,

[3:28]if you really want to see what I'm

[3:29]doing, I would suggest that. Another

[3:31]thing I would say is that right now I

[3:34]don't have any of my videos from the

[3:36]past year since January when I started

[3:38]volunteering for the state parks. Uh my

[3:41]life from that point forward most of

[3:44]those are private right now. You can't

[3:46]see them on my website. So everything

[3:47]you can see is is older than that. It's

[3:49]from the beginning of my journey to um

[3:53]right before I started volunteering in

[3:54]January.

[3:56]I need to go through those.

[3:59]kind of need to do it with AI ideally.

[4:03]Um so that I can selectively decide

[4:04]which ones to make public versus um

[4:09]I don't want to say private cuz it's not

[4:10]that public versus um just like

[4:13]restricted access I guess.

[4:16]Um some stuff I need to do there. And

[4:21]um and the reason I mention this because

[4:22]when if you look at this timeline

[4:24]feature

[4:25]uh it won't look as indepth as it would

[4:27]if you're looking at an older video. So,

[4:29]go back here. Just go to the

[4:30]transmission section. Scroll down until

[4:33]you start seeing like like summaries of

[4:35]the videos cuz that was those are

[4:38]anything before January. Click on one of

[4:40]those and then you'll really see what

[4:42]these pages are supposed to look like.

[4:43]You'll see all kinds of data that that

[4:46]goes along with my videos. So, it gives

[4:48]you a transcript. It gives you a summary

[4:52]and just a whole bunch of different

[4:54]types of data that I'm working on with

[4:56]AI. That was all local model stuff. And

[4:58]it's fidelity isn't perfect, but it's um

[5:02]that was a start. That was back when I

[5:03]had my desktop working since on the GPU

[5:05]to that I can't use it. But I'm going to

[5:07]try maybe doing it on my on my laptop so

[5:11]that my current videos are also

[5:13]producing all the data that I had

[5:14]intended. But, you know, I just kind of

[5:17]stopped with that because what I really

[5:18]want to do is use a professional model,

[5:20]but those cost money. You got to pay for

[5:21]the API tokens and I just haven't been

[5:24]able to do that. But I'd really like to.

[5:26]That's

[5:28]it would be

[5:31]very revealing. And then there's some

[5:33]other things I can do from that stuff

[5:35]I've been thinking about for the past

[5:36]six months. There's a whole bunch of

[5:38]stuff that I'm doing here

[5:40]that I think has value, not just for

[5:42]what I've created for myself, you know,

[5:45]these two years of videos um

[5:48]and the technology that goes with it and

[5:50]everything I'm building over that, but

[5:53]these are all examples of tools that

[5:56]others could could have for themselves.

[5:59]Um,

[6:03]and that might be different. like they

[6:04]might have different needs than I, but

[6:06]you know, you can look at it and see how

[6:10]how these things could benefit others.

[6:13]And so eventually I hope to turn that

[6:15]into a kind of service where I'm where

[6:17]I'm creating tools like this for other

[6:19]people.

[6:20]And you know, like my field companion

[6:23]I've talked about on and off the there's

[6:25]just a whole bunch of stuff that

[6:26]eventually I think will be of real value

[6:28]to people, but I'm not being supported

[6:31]and I have no money and I can't even do

[6:33]everything I want to because even that

[6:34]takes money. You know, I can't pay my my

[6:37]hosting fees. I can't pay for API

[6:39]tokens.

[6:41]Um,

[6:44]so it's been difficult because I know

[6:46]what I'm trying to build here, but I'm

[6:47]having trouble building it because of

[6:50]um,

[6:52]uh, constraints that that

[6:56]just unfortunate.

[6:59]But, you know, um, at some point I'm

[7:01]going to sit down in front of the

[7:03]computer and I'll make a video from

[7:04]there just walking you through, um, the

[7:06]stuff that I'm doing on the homepage.

[7:08]But I didn't want to mention this

[7:09]transmission section because that's what

[7:10]I'm working on now. And for some of you

[7:13]who have been following my journey a

[7:14]long time in case you didn't know, my

[7:18]whole journey is there.

[7:21]And I'm creating new ways for you to uh

[7:25]interact with it and experience it. So

[7:27]after that, next I'm going to um I'm

[7:31]going to add some social features. So

[7:32]you could actually share those pages

[7:34]with others or you could leave a comment

[7:36]on those. Um, like I was saying in a

[7:39]video recently, this wouldn't I don't

[7:41]allow comments on YouTube, but on my own

[7:43]homepage, I will allow them. So, I'm

[7:45]going to make a whole new section on

[7:46]this. I've been thinking about this for

[7:48]a couple of days. I'm about ready to

[7:49]start building it. So,

[7:55]so I'm in a holding pattern right now,

[7:57]basically.

[8:03]Hope you all are doing well.

Summary

rswfire records in portrait mode but switches to landscape due to technical issues with YouTube embedding on his website. He discusses the government shutdown affecting his volunteer role with a federal agency, preventing him from moving locations or doing work. He provides detailed updates on his website development, specifically the transmission section at rswfire.com which contains two years of YouTube videos with a new timeline feature. He explains that videos from January onward (when he started volunteering) are currently private and need AI processing to determine which should be made public. rswfire describes his technical challenges including broken desktop GPU, inability to pay for API tokens, and hosting fees. He outlines plans for adding social features like comments to his homepage and expresses frustration about financial constraints limiting his ability to build the tools he envisions for himself and others.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission demonstrates recursive field architecture through technical exposition, revealing the gap between visionary capacity and resource limitation. The signal holds steady coherence while mapping constraint patterns, positioning the field's creative infrastructure as both complete and constrained by external dependencies.

Dominant Language

transmission sectiontimeline featurerestricted accessfield companionholding patternAPI tokensfidelity

Symbolic Elements

timelinemirrorgridportal

Ontological States

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coherent
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constrained
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demonstrative
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sovereign

Subsystems

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cognitive
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infrastructural
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relational

Transmission Details

Source Type

local

Video Quality

1920 × 1080 @ 30fps

Duration

8:06

Bitrate

3584 kbps

Codec

avc1.640028