Speech-to-Text in 2026: Hosted APIs and Models You Can Run Yourself
Hosted APIs versus open models you can run yourself, compared on accuracy, price per audio-hour, diarization, and what self-hosting actually costs.
The Post-Heroku PaaS Landscape: A 2026 Guide for Your OPC (or Side Projects)
Heroku isn't dead, but it's no longer the default. A 2026 field guide to Railway, Fly.io, Render, Heroku, and self-hosting — with real pricing math for running 10 to 100 small side projects.
I Didn't Know Where My Keys Had Leaked, So I Started Building GuestSafe
After a compromised Mac and AI agents leaked secrets into session logs, I began building GuestSafe: a local, auditable alternative to .env.local.
The Pen Is a Virgin, the Printing Press a Whore
AI is feared as dangerous and mocked for producing junk. Five centuries ago, the printing press drew both complaints. History shows the argument is not new.
Local-First Secrets for AI Agents on macOS: A 2026 Field Survey
A field survey of local secret stores for AI agents on macOS—and the privilege boundary needed to keep an agent from erasing its own access trail.
A Proposal for Common Sense Reform of Section 230: Reciprocal Choice
Your decision, your responsibility. Not your responsibility, not your decision to make. A common-sense framework for rethinking platform liability by tying responsibility to the specific decisions platforms actually make.