Category: Journal

Modern tech is cancerous – I’m going clear

Most of modern tech, be it devices or software / digital services are corrupt and cancerous. They promise increased productivity and ease of use in exchange for your privacy and your control.

My aim is to go clear, as much as I can, and document that journey here.

Some things I have already done, such as switching to a privacy-respecting email provider like Protonmail. And a privacy-focused messaging service like Signal.

My aim for these posts is to give others a kind of guide to do this themselves. Some of the steps will be difficult for those who don’t have the privilege of time and / or technical know how. This is also part of the problem – some alternatives are not easy or convenient to switch to. But I will do my best here.

I’m not bothered about privacy — I have nothing to hide.

people without a real clue. Also people without curtains on their windows or doors on any toilets they use.

I’m not a “devops” person, but I’m learning

By trade I am a PHP developer. I’ve never done devops in a professional setting. However, for a while I have had a strange fascination with various continuous integration and deployment strategies I’ve seen at many of my places of work.

I’ve seen some very complicated setups over the years, which has created a mental block for me to really dig in and understand setting up integration and deployment workflows.

But in my current role at Geomiq, I had the opportunity of being shown a possible setup — specifically using Kubernetes. And that was sort of a gateway drug, which finally led me to getting a working workflow up and running.

I now want to start sharing what I have learnt and build out a fully-fledged deployment workflow. Not sure how many posts it will take, or what structure it will take, but my aim is to make devops and CI/CD as approachable as possible.