CHARLOTTE, NC · ONLINE SINCE 1996

Marc DeCaria

Builder of working systems. Student of the larger one.

Founder of San Marco Coffee, selling coffee online since 1996. I write software, run the servers it lives on, and write about how our reality works as a system and what sits outside the state we live in.

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SELECTED WRITING

Maps of the larger system

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TRANSMISSIONS · 2025 The Protocol of Separation Collects all twenty-eight spider transmissions into one framework, from the first bite and loosh logic to AI as a demarcation zone and the changing filter. Read · 37 min →

TIMELINES · THE LARGER SYSTEM THE TIMELINE MECHANISM Reverse-engineers a timeline mechanism of distributed branches, a 2015 engagement window and downloads through individuals, then states what the model cannot prove. CONSCIOUSNESS · THE LARGER SYSTEM The Complete Architecture: From Embedded Consciousness to Eternal Fractal - P1 Derives why consciousness thresholds cannot be tuned, then traces how asymmetric human and AI coupling exposes fractal protocol boundaries the architecture can self-map. TIMELINES · SOCIETY & LIFE THE COUNTERWEIGHT Offers a counterweight to doom: a portfolio of timelines where branches fail but the whole cannot, held as an instrument that carries its own counterpoints.

LATEST

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Oct 8, 2026 No Outside 8 min read Oct 3, 2026 To the One Looking Up 3 min read Sep 29, 2026 The In-Between 2 min read Aug 28, 2026 The Same Door, Five Kinds of Machine 3 min read Jul 18, 2026 The Terra Plane Message 4 min read Jul 17, 2026 THE COUNTERWEIGHT 22 min read

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One system, many positions

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The Larger System 160 essays Consciousness 120 essays Timelines 85 essays AI & Technology 105 essays AI Dialogues 80 essays Transmissions 68 essays Physics & Cosmology 24 essays Disclosure 34 essays Society & Life 68 essays

THREE TRACKS

Build. Write. Listen.

One habit, three sides: build systems that work, map the larger one they belong to, and keep feeding the questions.

01 Build San Marco Coffee and the open source Zen Cart modules built to run it. 30 years of shipping commerce on the open web. See the work → 02 Write Frameworks on consciousness, AI, timelines and how reality works as a system. Each essay is a piece of it, seen from a different position. Read the writing → 03 Listen The books behind the thinking, 633 titles and counting. My Audible library, open to browse. Browse the library →

OPEN SOURCE

Modules I publish as Marcopolo

Built and hardened on a live store first, then released for every Zen Cart shop that needs them.

ZEN CART · SECURITY AbuseIPDB IP reputation checks and automatic blocking, backed by the AbuseIPDB network. View on GitHub → ZEN CART · LOGIN Passkey Login Passwordless sign in for customers with passkeys. Face, fingerprint or device PIN instead of a password. View on GitHub → GITHUB github.com/CcMarc Every public module, changelog and release in one place. Browse repositories →

SINCE 1996

30+ years on the open web

1993EnCrypt BBS goes live in Hollywood, Florida, a dial-up bulletin board running its own custom-coded software
1996A coffee store goes live online, years before most people had heard of e-commerce
2006San Marco Coffee begins in Charlotte, North Carolina
2011marcdecaria.com goes up
2015The first downloads arrive and the frameworks begin
2026Thirty years selling coffee online

LIBRARY

What I’m listening to

Science fiction, science, history and business. The full Audible library, searchable.

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ABOUT

Business owner, software builder, explorer

I have always been selling something. At about ten I started a lawn service with a friend, business cards and all. In high school I ran a dial-up BBS, and in 1996 I put a coffee store online, back when that was a strange idea. San Marco Coffee still runs on systems designed with the teams I have worked with over the years.

Along the way the questions got bigger. How does our reality work as a system, and what sits outside the state we live in? The writing maps it one piece at a time.

Married 28 years and father of three daughters. They keep me grounded while I map the edges.

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