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The Rebirth of snakeNet.org:
Announcing Project COSMOS
After several years of silence, snakeNet.org is officially back.
Not as a nostalgic archive, but as a modern open-source community driven by curiosity, engineering excellence, and the belief that technology should be fun to build, share, and use.
Project COSMOS marks a fresh beginning: a return to our community-first philosophy after years spent building commercial software, robotics platforms, cloud infrastructure, and AI systems. While the technology has evolved dramatically since snakeNet first appeared in 2008, our original mission has not.
We still believe in open source. We still believe in experimentation. And we still believe the best projects are built by passionate communities.
Executive Summary
Project COSMOS is the new foundation for everything snakeNet will become over the coming years.
Our goals are simple:
- Rebuild the snakeNet community
- Release practical open-source software
- Share knowledge across technology and everyday life
- Build tools that solve real-world problems without unnecessary complexity
Launching alongside the website are two foundational projects:
📡 Satellite
Satellite is a lightweight GitOps deployment platform designed specifically for Docker and Docker Swarm.
Instead of requiring a full Kubernetes ecosystem, Satellite continuously monitors Git repositories and automatically redeploys stacks whenever changes are pushed.
Whether used together with Portainer or as a standalone deployment solution, Satellite focuses on simplicity, reliability, and automation.
Designed for:
- Docker
- Docker Swarm
- Self-hosted environments
- Home labs
- VPS deployments
- Small production clusters
🪐 Gravity
Gravity is the modern successor to the original Ophion CMS.
Rather than acting as a traditional content management system, Gravity becomes the operational center of the snakeNet ecosystem.
It combines:
- infrastructure management
- service monitoring
- telemetry
- centralized administration
- project integration
Gravity is designed to become the "mission control" for self-hosted infrastructure and future snakeNet services.
Looking Back: Nearly Two Decades of Building
Every project teaches something.
Over the past eighteen years, snakeNet has continuously reinvented itself as technology evolved.
2008 — snakeNet begins
snakeNet.org launched alongside the original snakeBase CMS.
At the time, the goal was straightforward:
Create a publishing platform that gave developers complete control over their websites without depending on heavyweight commercial software.
2010 — Ophion
As the community expanded, snakeBase evolved into the Ophion System.
This represented far more than a rename.
The architecture was completely redesigned to support larger projects, richer content management, and increasingly modular software.
Many ideas that later became commonplace in modern web frameworks first appeared here in experimental form.
2011 — Mobile First
The smartphone revolution fundamentally changed software development.
snakeNet responded with several mobile-focused projects including:
- SkyEye, an indoor navigation platform
- SpongeJob, a free mobile game
This period marked our transition from traditional web applications into native mobile ecosystems.
2015 — Data Before AI Was Cool
Years before generative AI became mainstream, snakeNet was already experimenting with intelligent software.
Our Calorie Watcher platform combined:
- real-time telemetry
- cloud synchronization
- user analytics
- predictive models
- intelligent recommendations
Today these ideas would simply be called "AI-powered."
Back then, they were just interesting engineering problems.
2017 — Cloud Infrastructure & Robotics
As infrastructure matured, Ophion transformed into Ophion DAC (Device Administration Cloud).
The platform expanded beyond websites into complete backend services powering mobile applications and distributed systems.
During the same period, we entered the robotics world using ROS 1, eventually leading to commercial work under Blackout Technologies.
Those years taught us something invaluable:
Software doesn't stop at the screen.
It controls devices. It manages infrastructure. It operates entire ecosystems.
2020 — Human-Machine Interaction
Attention shifted from robotics toward conversational interfaces.
Large-scale data collection systems, AI pipelines, and conversational platforms became our primary focus.
These technologies later evolved into independent commercial ventures.
The engineering experience gained during that time now returns home to snakeNet.
2022 — Returning to Open Source
One of the most important milestones wasn't technical.
It was philosophical.
Following the transfer of much of our enterprise software to outside investors, snakeNet was finally free to become what it originally wanted to be.
Without commercial roadmaps.
Without customer requirements.
Without corporate priorities.
Just curiosity, experimentation, and open source.
2026 — Project COSMOS
Today, all of those years converge.
Project COSMOS represents everything we've learned across:
- web development
- mobile engineering
- cloud infrastructure
- DevOps
- robotics
- distributed systems
- AI
- self-hosting
Not as isolated projects.
As one ecosystem.
Why COSMOS?
The name was chosen deliberately.
A cosmos is an interconnected system where independent bodies exist in balance while remaining part of something larger.
That philosophy mirrors the architecture we want to build.
Rather than creating one monolithic application, Project COSMOS consists of many focused projects that work independently but integrate naturally together.
Satellite deploys infrastructure.
Gravity observes and manages it.
Future projects will extend the ecosystem even further.
Each component has a clear purpose while remaining useful on its own.
Technology Should Be Enjoyable Again
The software industry has become increasingly complex.
Simple deployments often require:
- Kubernetes clusters
- dozens of YAML files
- multiple orchestration layers
- heavyweight CI/CD pipelines
Those tools absolutely have their place.
But not every server needs to resemble a hyperscale cloud provider.
Project COSMOS embraces a different philosophy:
Use the simplest solution that solves the problem well.
Docker remains incredibly powerful.
Docker Swarm is still an excellent orchestrator for many environments.
Self-hosting has never been more popular.
We want to build tools for developers who enjoy operating their own infrastructure without unnecessary abstraction.
Beyond Software
snakeNet has always been about more than code.
Technology is only one part of everyday life.
Project COSMOS expands the community into subjects we genuinely enjoy discussing:
Technology
- self-hosting
- Linux
- cloud infrastructure
- DevOps
- networking
- open source
- AI
- hardware
Food
Engineering and cooking share surprising similarities:
Experimentation. Iteration. Optimization.
Expect recipes, kitchen technology, and culinary projects.
Pets
Many of us spend more time with our furry coworkers than with office colleagues.
We'll share experiences, tips, and projects involving our four-legged companions.
Lifestyle
A healthy engineering culture isn't measured by commits alone.
We'll also explore:
- productivity
- design
- wellness
- work-life balance
- home labs
- maker culture
Open Source, Always
The world has changed dramatically since snakeNet first appeared.
Platforms have become larger.
Cloud providers have become more centralized.
Developer ecosystems increasingly depend on proprietary services.
At the same time, the open-source community has never been stronger. Projects such as Docker, Git, Linux, and countless community-driven tools have made it easier than ever to build sophisticated systems without vendor lock-in. The recent explosion of self-hosting, homelabs, and lightweight GitOps workflows shows that many developers are rediscovering the value of owning their own infrastructure. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}
snakeNet chooses that direction.
Everything we build starts with openness.
Knowledge shared freely scales infinitely.
Looking Ahead
Project COSMOS is only the beginning.
Satellite and Gravity establish the foundation, but they are merely the first stars in a much larger constellation.
Future releases will continue expanding the ecosystem while remaining true to one guiding principle:
Build software that is practical, understandable, and enjoyable.
Welcome Home
Whether you remember snakeBase from 2008…
Contributed to Ophion…
Followed our robotics journey…
Or you've only just discovered snakeNet today…
Welcome.
The servers are online.
The repositories are active.
Development has resumed.
And this time, we're building for the community first.
Welcome back to snakeNet.org.
Welcome to Project COSMOS.