Practical Cryonics book

The Science of Hope.
Practical Cryonics.

Explore the science of life extension and empower yourself to take control of your future.

Grounded in Science

Clear explanations of cryonics and life extension technologies.

Empowering Knowledge

Information you need to make informed choices about your future.

Take Control

Practical steps you can take today to protect tomorrow.

Hope for the Future

A vision of what's possible when science and choice come together.

The Books

Books by Trenton J. Tompkins

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Practical Cryonics

What modern science actually says about preserving the human mind: the science, the ethics, and the logistics, so you can weigh the question of long-term survival honestly and decide for yourself.

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Coding with GPT

Build smarter, code faster, create more. A practical guide to working alongside GPT to ship real software, from first prompt to finished product.

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Coding with Claude

Build smarter, code faster, create more. A hands-on guide to pair-programming with Claude to design, build, and ship real software end to end.

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Articles

Notes & Essays

Tile-voting image registration: how a refusal to slide a PNG became a free CV tool

A refusal to nudge a PNG by hand became a free computer-vision tool: cut the source into tiles, template-match each, and let the pieces vote on an offset. Oc...

Killing the Tofu Box for Good: Grafting a Star into Noto Color Emoji

That empty box isn't broken text - it's a missing glyph. How I grafted a star into Noto Color Emoji with fontTools and built a font that can't tofu.

How to Automate Email with Forward Email (and Save $100+/yr vs. Google Workspace)

Google Workspace bills per mailbox and won't let you script DKIM. Forward Email is flat-rate with a REST API that automates everything — DKIM included. How I...

The Secret Button That Wasn't There: scripting the Twitch API

I went to grab my Twitch client secret and the button wasn't there. Here's the whole path to scripting the Helix API — creating the app, the Confidential-cli...

I Gave dev.to a Command Line: scripting the Forem API end to end

I cross-post my build-logs to dev.to, and doing it by hand got old. Here's the Forem API end to end — getting the key, the one call that publishes, and the c...

A SYSTEM Command Queue: letting automation run elevated without a UAC every time

I wanted my automation to run admin commands without a UAC prompt every time. The answer: a SYSTEM scheduled task that polls a user-writable queue file. Here...

Who Manages Your Chrome? Killing "Managed by your organization" for good

Chrome says "Managed by your organization" but you don't have one. The culprit is a leftover, often ACL-locked Group Policy key. Here's how to find what's se...

Cracking Open a 2004 Game: pulling every asset out of a Clickteam EXE

Old Multimedia Fusion games pack every sprite, sound, font, icon, runtime DLL, and event script inside the .exe. With Anaconda (a Python 2.7 Clickteam decomp...

Real-Time Speech-to-Text in the Browser with Deepgram

A minimal, framework-free dictation box: click a mic, talk, and watch words stream into a textarea live as you speak. The full pipeline — getUserMedia, Web A...

About the Author

Trenton J. Tompkins

I wrote Practical Cryonics for one simple reason: I have a daughter.

When you love someone deeply, the idea that your time together is limited stops feeling like philosophy and starts feeling like a problem. We are taught to accept death as inevitable, to treat "life is short" as wisdom rather than resignation. But if technology offers even a small possibility of extending the time we have with the people we love, ignoring that possibility no longer feels rational.

By trade I am a programmer, working primarily with PHP and web-based systems. I have built software, operated small businesses, and spent years thinking about how systems work - technical systems, economic systems, and human systems. That background shaped how I approached cryonics: analytically rather than emotionally.

Practical Cryonics is my first published book. It represents years of reading, questioning assumptions, and trying to think honestly about mortality, probability, and responsibility. I currently serve as CEO of AcquisitionInvest, a business acquisition and investment venture focused on building durable long-term value.

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