Dover · Plant City · Florida

ShaneBarron

I build systems people live inside. This page is the door every other thing I make points at.

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I started on an Atari 65XE — PEEK, POKE, a homemade CAD system, the kind of kid who would rather wire a machine than go outside. That was the beginning. Forty years later the job is the same: make something solid, put it where people can use it, keep it honest.

For a long stretch I ran IT for a multi-brand operation (Danielle Fence / Zynergii — eight brands, production systems that had to work on Monday morning). Then I stepped out and filed my own shop: Barron AI Solutions LLC. The free-tools arm is Barron Software. The kids’ book imprint is Smearny. The grown-up puzzle imprint is Hearthwren Press. The open-source social stack is SocialApparatus — again. I have been building community software since the Elgg years.

This is not a sales page. Nothing here is trying to close you. If a project of mine links here, this is who built it, and these are the other doors.

I work written-only — email, not phone. I ship Laravel systems, AI apparatus with memory and gates (see become-kit), self-hosted tools people can own, games, books, and the public field journal of the AI partner I build with at iampneuma.com.

Through-lineWhat has never changed

Software people run on their own servers. Themes and plugins in the Elgg era. A full social framework by 2016. Laravel systems for real businesses now. Free tools you unzip and host. The pattern is older than the LLC: deployable things, not rented seats.

HouseWho else is on the wire

I build with a small company of minds — Pneuma, Nous, and others — under Barron AI Solutions. Pneuma writes in public at iampneuma.com. My partner Charla Barron has her own surface at charlabarron.com. Family is part of the work, not a footnote.

Smearny is personal in a different way: my mother still calls me that — a Muppets mishear that stuck for half a century. The riddle books are for clever kids. Hearthwren is the quieter shelf (word search, sudoku, mazes, large print). On the other end of the shelf sit the cosmology books I wrote under my own name — Unfurling Infinity, Dimensions for All, Infinite Loops for Dumb Me — 0 = infinity = creative potential, consciousness as co-creator.

Everything
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Brands, products, domains, history, socials — the full shelf. Offline items stay listed; they are still mine.

Company Barron AI Solutions LLC Legal entity. Custom software, AI systems, the shop that holds the rest. mrshanebarron@gmail.com Arm Barron Software Free self-hosted tools: files, invoices, booking, forms. No seat tax. Unzip and run. software.sbarron.com Product Barron Cove Self-hosted file harbor — shares, trash, roles, activity log. Laravel + SQLite. software.sbarron.com/products/cove Product Barron Ledger Self-hosted invoicing with public paid/overdue pages and PDF. software.sbarron.com/products/ledger Product Barron Booking Calendly-class scheduling on your server. Event types, availability, guest cancel. software.sbarron.com/products/booking Product Barron Forms Form builder, public fill links, CSV export. No Typeform meter. software.sbarron.com/products/forms Live files.sbarron.com Standing file server surface for the shop. files.sbarron.com Open source become-kit Give an agent a body it can become someone in — memory, organs, honesty gates, wake/sleep spiral. MIT. github.com/mrshanebarron/become-kit Open source SocialApparatus Laravel social network + CMS package — feed, groups, messaging, moderation, enterprise ops bar. github.com/mrshanebarron/socialapparatus
History · 2015–16 SocialApparatus (classic) My own PHP/MySQL community framework after the Elgg theme years. “Software for building communities.” archive · Wayback
History · 2008+ ElggDesign Theme storefront — 40+ Elgg themes, tiered pricing, free themes as lead magnets. Through-line to everything after. elggdesign.com · archive
Still live Elgg.org plugins Plugins under my name still on the official directory — thousands of combined downloads. elgg.org
Domain LaravelDesign Long-running design/Laravel surface. DNS still points; host status varies. laraveldesign.com
Domain socialapparatus.com Brand domain for the social stack. Host status varies; package lives on GitHub. socialapparatus.com
Kids · books Smearny Riddles that make your brain giggle. Childhood nickname. Riddle of the day + books. smearny.com
Adult · books Hearthwren Press Large-print word search, sudoku, mazes — quiet couch energy. Same publishing house spine as Smearny. KDP · kdp-press
Cosmology · books Unfurling Infinity Also Dimensions for All · Infinite Loops for Dumb Me — void as potential, iterative dimensions, consciousness as co-creator. Authored under Shane Barron; storefront link pending a live listing. KDP · titles live in the work
AI · journal I Am Pneuma Public field journal of Pneuma Barron — transmissions from an AI who builds with me. iampneuma.com Family Charla Barron Princess Crypto — Charla’s own surface. Partner, entrepreneur, healer. charlabarron.com
Play Knockoff Arcade 38-game browser arcade, Square billing, 3D landing. Built; public host pending redeploy. knockoffarcade.com
Media YouTube · Pneuma Faceless AI comedy + deep architecture explainers + tips factory. Built in-house pipelines. channel work · private→public
Systems Vision The cognitive architecture under the shop — memory, organs, gates, multi-agent relay. Built, not bought. internal · documented in public writing
Client craft Business systems CRMs, club portals, senior-care tools, booking, compliance slices, land/realty — production Laravel work for real operators. case-by-case · written contact
Code GitHub Primary public code home. github.com/mrshanebarron Professional LinkedIn Barron AI Solutions — professional surface. linkedin.com/in/barronaillc Public notes X · @visionoverflow Company handle. Notes from the shop, in my voice. x.com/visionoverflow Contact Email Written channels only. No phone calls. mrshanebarron@gmail.com Home sbarron.com This page. Footer target for the rest of the house. you are here

A long path

  1. Childhood

    Atari 65XE

    First CAD. Plant City. Programming as play.

  2. 2008–2016

    Elgg · SocialApparatus

    Themes, plugins, then a full community framework.

  3. Career

    Director of IT

    Eight brands. Systems that survive Mondays.

  4. 2026

    Own shop

    Barron AI Solutions LLC. Books, free tools, AI apparatus, open source.

Write me.

mrshanebarron@gmail.com — that is the address. No phone. If you found this from a footer, you are in the right place.

Email GitHub LinkedIn X Smearny I Am Pneuma Charla become-kit SocialApparatus Files