Rob Hackney
Independent CreatorSolar Storm PressMelbourne, Australia
Rob Hackney
Comic-book writer · Legitimate website owner · Manual-licence holder · Founder · CEO
Currently
On the desk
Software · Live Gumshoe Supplier verification across 20+ government registers, in production at gumshoe.au.
Comics · In development First Ninja Japan, 1281. History remembers the ninja; it forgot the man who inspired them.
Systems · Running weekly World Motorsport Roundup A motorsport show that researches, narrates and publishes itself on a schedule.
Tools · In development The Disclosure Reader A panel-aware web reader built from the same layered art the print edition uses.Products · Tools · Systems
Software
Product · Powers this website
Pholio
A portfolio CMS with no database and nothing much to hack.
Read the case → System · Shipped and running
World Motorsport Roundup
A weekly show that researches, writes, narrates and publishes itself.
Read the case → Tool · In development
The Disclosure Reader
Reading a comic on a phone should not mean pinching at a PDF.
Read the case →First contact isn't an invasion. It's a disclosure.
Day After Disclosure · Solar Storm Press
Painted from light. Written from shadow.
The Solar Storm universe
Journal
Writing
If it bamboozled me, what chance does anyone else have? Six months of Enphase battery support I troubleshoot systems for a living, and six months of Enphase support still went nowhere: firmware that would…The Ultimate Guide to Remote Knowledge Work and Data Entry From Australia A practical map of remote data-entry and knowledge-work platforms for Australians — the in-demand skills, the tax traps,…The Suppression of Human Psychic Abilities Examining Theories Evidence and Recent Research Ingo Swann’s suppression theories meet genetics, electromagnetic field research and documented telepathy cases — where the fringe and…