Privacy

Most of what we use online feels free. Search engines, maps, email, video. All the things we reach for without thinking. They’re not really free of course. They’re funded by advertising and by siphoning off our attention and our data. You already know the line: if you’re not paying, you’re the product. In a world of user pays - what would you pay for? But what if that model never existed. What if every service had a price tag. No ads, no data harvesting, no “free tier”. Would you pay for YouTube. Would you pay for it and Spotify and cloud storage and messaging apps. At some point you’d run out of money and you’d have to choose. ...

Here’s how not to rewrite your system. Again. What I Actually Do (When I’m Not Yelling at Legacy Code) I’ve spent 20 years in the trenches of enterprise Java, EJB nightmares, and leadership roles trying to keep developer teams sane and systems stable. These days, I help teams modernize without melting down, fix processes that quietly ruin morale, and build software that won’t collapse under its own cleverness. ...