BUILD GRAVITY
Keeping Truth, Freedom & Independence Alive
Last site Update: 3rd October 2026
Quick Intro
Welcome to Build Gravity. I'm James and this site is my way of sharing the knowledge and experience I have had the unplanned tenacity to have learned whilst blindly meandering and mostly blagging my way through my six plus decades on this planet. This site covers an eclectic mix of topics, interests, projects and sometimes nonsensical ramblings. You will mostly find information, articles and resources relating to technology, simple living and frugality, personal privacy and creating personal and financial independence. The site is a constant work in progress project and I'm constantly adding new content to the site which I hope you will find both interesting and informative.
My Personal Blog
Read an eclectic mix of posts, hints, tips, hacks & how to's. - I have just started to put this together so the content is limited but I will be adding new content every week. ...Read the blog
Being Human
On this site you will find zero AI content. Everything good, bad, ugly and otherwise has been hand crafted by me a real human with unique thoughts, perspectives and experiences.
Contact Me
If you would like to contact me directly to comment, engage or otherwise share an interesting contribution you can do that here.
Keeping Truth, Freedom and Independence Alive
With the proliferation of commercialism and consumption, fake news and global governments imposing increasingly repressive regimes of command and control upon us, I believe now more than ever that going back to the very roots of the internet vision defined by pioneers like J.C.R Licklider and later Tim Berners-Lee and others. is essential for protecting out future our liberty, freedom and independence.
In that spirit this site is about free contribution and sharing without commercialisation, monetisation or hidden agendas. I don't want your email address, your money or to invade your privacy,liberty or freedom in anyway. There's NO cookies, ads, analytics or tracking of any kind here. This site is my contribution to the "Small Web" where learning, free thinking, creating new ideas, and living as freely and as independently as possible is both promoted and protected so much as is possible.
Why Build Gravity?
Build Gravity is a term I created many years ago and it simply means being able to increase your knowledge, self-worth and capability through continual learning and application and in doing so become a person of "Gravity".
SimplyText
SimplyText is a small simple text editor web app project that I hand coded for my own use. it's far from perfect, is work in progress and I'm constantly adding and tweaking the functionality but I have added to this site "as-is"for anyone to freely use. You can get more details here
Musical Musings
Having been a musician for many years, I often record covers and original material for my own entertainment. Some of these are posted here for those of you who may find that kind of thing interesting and entertaining.You can listen to them here
Free Books
Over the years I have collected, written and published various books that are either open source and or copyright free. These include a range of topics including Tech, Busines, finance alongside anything else I think will be an interesting resourcefor others. These books are all freely downloadable and are not hidden behind paywalls or email signups etc. Simply download and enjoy. All books are in either plain text, pdf or epub formats to allow easy reading online or on your eboo device of choice.
You can view and download the tiles from here.
Useful Command Line Stuff
I'm starting to build up a simple resource to detail useful command line tips. This is work in progress and I will add to stuff here as time allows. Take a look
Minimal Design
You will notice that my site is plain and simple and that's by design. The main design philosophy is to keep things minimal and distraction free and where possible compliant to web standards. For the more technical visitors the main site is HTML only, no frameworks, CSS or JavaScript with the exception of my free web apps. Graphics and media are only used where required to share content. I hope you appreciate my no frills, back to basics design ethic.
If you want to find out more about why I keep this site so minimal and simple you can find out here.
