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Oct 3

Self-Hosting in 2026: A Practical Home Cloud Stack

A step-by-step guide to running your own infrastructure — what to buy, what to install, what it costs, and what to avoid. Three reference…

Self-Hosting in 2026: A Practical Home Cloud Stack

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Sep 26

Fusing PARA and Zettelkasten in Obsidian Without Losing Your Mind

Most people pick one system and quietly wish they had the other. The fix isn’t to pick better. The fix is to realize the two systems are…

Fusing PARA and Zettelkasten in Obsidian Without Losing Your Mind

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Sep 18

My Private Tech Stack — October 2026

An honest, evolving documentation of one person’s attempt to keep their digital life on hardware they own, in tools they control, with as…

My Private Tech Stack — October 2026

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Sep 12

Your Smartphone Is Becoming an AI Surveillance Device

Not because it’s been weaponized against you. Because it has been progressively augmented, with your consent, into something categorically…

Your Smartphone Is Becoming an AI Surveillance Device

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Sep 5

The Subscription Economy Is Creating Digital Feudalism

The “you will own nothing and be happy” line became a conspiracy meme. The consumer software industry has spent fifteen years quietly…

The Subscription Economy Is Creating Digital Feudalism

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Aug 29

The Hidden Psychological Cost of Infinite Convenience

Cognitive offloading isn’t new. What’s new is the totality of it, the asymmetry of the trade, and the fact that none of us quite chose…

The Hidden Psychological Cost of Infinite Convenience

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Aug 22

AI Will Make Authenticity More Valuable Than Intelligence

The internet is entering its synthetic era. The scarce input, increasingly, is the part that can’t be faked.

AI Will Make Authenticity More Valuable Than Intelligence

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Aug 15

The AI Boom Is Accidentally Reviving Self-Hosting

Big AI was supposed to be the ultimate centralization story: one model, one provider, every workflow funneled through someone else’s API…

The AI Boom Is Accidentally Reviving Self-Hosting

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Aug 10

Obsidian 1.13 Finally Lets You Find Your Settings

And the images look better on the way there

Obsidian 1.13 Finally Lets You Find Your Settings

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Aug 8

The More AI Writes for Us, the More Valuable Personal Knowledge Becomes

Generic thought just got infinitely cheap. By the same motion, the specific contents of your own mind — and the records of how you got…

The More AI Writes for Us, the More Valuable Personal Knowledge Becomes

Len

Len

I'm a Ph.D. student with a passion for data science and programming, specializing in Python. My writing explores the intersection of academia and technology.

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