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.

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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...
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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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Fun with Hyperlocal Data


I’ve been drawn to the idea of having many tiny sensors around my home intermittently collecting data points about all sorts of things - the Lumen measurement of our bedroom at night, the noise of the street below us, the AQI of our kitchen. This was mostly a pipedream until Pimoroni came out...
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Bimonthly? Update - December 15th, 2022


As with most anything I’ve tried to start as a habit, these update posts have become far less then routine. Not to say I haven’t done anything worth writing about - I’m just incredibly lazy. Anyways, here’s what’s up: What I’m Working On I’ve installed a...
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Batman Is Kind of Strange as a Concept


Have you ever really sat down and thought about Batman? I had a surplus of spare time on my hands recently, so I went back and played through Batman: Arkham City. When it originally came out, people consistently told me it was good, but I never got around to playing it because I just never cared...
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