Privacy

Three trends are converging right now that should terrify anyone paying attention. Each one alone would be concerning. Together, they fundamentally change the privacy calculus. Let me explain why privacy matters more in 2026 than at any point in human history. Trend 1: Mass Data Collection Is Complete This isn’t news. We’ve known for over a decade that every email, every text message, every phone call, every location ping, every purchase, every search query is being collected somewhere. The Snowden revelations were 2013. We’ve had thirteen years to process this. ...

What if you could have complete control over your email, your photos, your documents, your everything — without needing to understand Linux, Kubernetes, or networking? What if self-hosting was as easy as paying a monthly subscription, but instead of feeding your data to Big Tech, you actually owned it? This is the future I’m building towards. The Problem: We’ve Lost Control Every day, billions of people hand over their most intimate data to companies whose business model depends on exploiting it. Your emails, your photos, your location history, your browsing habits — all stored on servers you don’t control, governed by terms of service you didn’t read, in jurisdictions that may not protect your rights. ...

I self-host nearly everything. Kubernetes clusters on refurbished mini-PCs. GitLab on my own hardware. Vault for secrets. Monitoring, logging, all of it. People often ask: why? Managed cloud is easier. AWS, Azure, Google do it at scale and reliably. Why put yourself through this? The short answer: agency. The long answer is this entire article. The spaceship thought experiment In my post about the space container thought experiment I describe a scenario: you wake up in a closed container in space. Everything you need to survive is present, but nothing goes in or out. ...