Do Flamingos Know They're Pink?
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On The Enshittification of Audre Lorde: "The Master's Tools" in Tech Discourse
Somewhere between Audre Lorde's 1979 speech and contemporary tech discourse, the "master's tools" became a meme. This essay traces what was lost in the translation.…
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Laying the First Stones
A VPS, a reverse proxy, a password manager, and a DNS zone full of forgotten history. The autonomous stack begins to take shape.…
Three Servers and a Tunnel
Credentials first, then email, then everything else. Before a single service can move, the migration has to be ordered by dependency, and the infrastructure to hold it has to exist first.…
For the Love of the Linux Desktop
Twenty-five years of Linux on the desktop, long enough that the muscle memory outlasts the code. A love letter to the thing I look at and touch every day, and how it got that way.…
The Inventory I Should Have Done Years Ago
Every self-hosting guide starts with software. This one starts a step earlier: the unglamorous inventory of what you actually depend on, done after one too many price hikes dressed up as upgrades.…
Why I'm Doing the Autonomous Stack Series
Technology is a proxy for power, and power belongs to whoever controls the infrastructure. This series asks how much of my own I can take back, and what it costs to try.…
Oiling the Doors at FOSDEM
No tickets, no badges, no lanyards: just a Brussels campus handed over to thousands of FOSS enthusiasts for a weekend. Notes from three years at the largest volunteer-run event in open source.…
Welcome to Do Flamingos Know They're Pink
The blog has a new home on self-hosted infrastructure and a new name. Flamingos aren't born pink, they become pink from what they eat, which is the kind of question this place keeps circling.…