Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days because BitKeeper revoked its license. Then GitHub made it mainstream, Microsoft bought GitHub, and Forgejo forked from Gitea when it went corporate. Here’s why it matters where your code lives.
Sending email to a list comes with real rules and real choices. Here’s consent, unsubscribe, the law, deliverability, and the two kinds of “tracking” (only one is the creepy kind), in plain language.
“No one cares what I’m doing” is the most reasonable-sounding reason to stay on Gmail, and the easiest to take apart. Here’s the honest answer, with real cases, and the one argument that matters most: the people who actually are targeted.
After Cal.com went closed-source, the self-hosted booking landscape shifted. Here’s what’s genuinely ready for real use: Easy!Appointments, WordPress plugins, custom builds, and when each one makes sense.
A booking system is four things bundled together: a calendar, a customer database, payment processing, and a website. The calendar is the part you think you’re paying for. The customer database and the website are the parts that keep you.
Most booking platforms have been bought by online travel conglomerates, private equity firms, or digital holding companies. The names stayed the same; the ownership, pricing, and data flows changed. Here’s who owns what now, and what it means for you.
Most of us learn web app security the hard way, after something breaks. Here’s the short, honest version: the free list that names the ten most common risks, a free tool to find them, and why awareness is the real protection.
Wix is the easy way to get a site up fast. The catch shows up later: you can’t take your site with you, you can’t switch templates, and the bill never stops. Here’s the honest trade-off, and what to do instead.
Your domain is your address on the web, rented yearly from a registrar. Here’s who we send people to, the famous one we steer them away from, and the four behaviors that tell you who to trust.
Every tool is a choice between renting and owning. Buying is low pain now and a bill forever; building is a sharper cost once, then quiet. Here’s how to choose on purpose, and why owning got cheap.
