Helo. I’m Alex Spezowka — a technologist and hacker who works and lives internationally.
By day I’m a freelance operations consultant; before that, I built and managed infrastructure that still serve millions of people a year, and have also worked as a sommelier, CADD designer, line cook, shoe shine boy, radio DJ, baker, and journalist. I have a great love of the world and people in it and try to share that here, as best I can, on this blog.
I write about technology, independence, philosophy, and love, on no fixed schedule. Welcome.
Projects
llms-full.txtNahal: The Cyber Monastery
An order of machines kept at prayer.
Haruspex
Digital haruspicy: feed it an image and read the prophecy in its corruption.
Axiom
Fitch-style natural deduction proof checker for the browser
Core Values Wizard
Discover your 5 core values through guided introspection.
Mixtape Maker
Prepare music playlists for recording onto an analog cassette.
Film Development Calculator
Calculate the time between film baths automagically.
Daily Carry 2024
I maintain a living document called my things list, where I track all the different tools and such that I use in my daily life. I try to update this when I remember to, throughout the year, but I also thought it might be interesting to track how my daily carry changes over time. So, here is what I...
Read more ⟶Resolutions 2024
Wow. What a year. There were many challenges and I accomplished little. The irony that it was the year of the rabbit is not lost on me.
I’d like to thank all my friends and various associates for being a guiding light this year, as it would have been a lot more harrowing to do this one alone....
Read more ⟶Digital Minimalism: Kyocera 902KC
In August of this year, I deleted Twitter off of my phone, after what I found to be the final straw after months of garbage policy changes enforced by the rich egg who now owns the site.
While I have been using a minimal smartphone for years - that is to say, a smartphone with as few apps as I...
Read more ⟶Laundry & The Responsibility of Search Engines
I’d like to take you on a journey through the world of scams, laundry, and search engines.
In 2016, Foldimate, a California based startup, showed the world a laundry folding robot - it was the size of a washing machine, with a slot in the top for garments that would be mechanically folded and...
Read more ⟶The Death of the Search Engine
In the early days of Google and Yahoo the best hack for getting your website to the top of rankings was Keyword Stuffing. You’d make the font blend in with the background and jam in as many relevant (or in many cases completely irrelevant, depending on your intent) keywords as you possibly...
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