essays
Posts tagged "essays".
- Why I Self-Host
The reasons I give — privacy, cost, resilience — are all true, and all partly a cover story. I set out to build a little local-AI appliance and spent the night fighting NVIDIA drivers and firewall lockouts instead, and enjoyed it. That last part is the actual reason, and it isn't a recommendation.
- They Took the Jack
The headphone jack was the most universal, highest-fidelity, zero-configuration audio interface ever shipped — and it left the phone because most people didn't miss it. That 'most people didn't' is the whole story. It isn't a conspiracy; it's what designing for the average does to the edges.