Why Deleting Unused Apps is Good for Your Phone (And Your Privacy)
Today, I did something simple but useful—I checked all the apps on my phone and uninstalled the ones I haven’t used in a long time. Some apps seemed like I...
Breaking Free from the Google Maps Monopoly
Breaking Free from the Map Monopoly: My Journey to Open-Source Navigation I was using Google Maps for a long time, but I didn’t like the idea of sharing my...
Why I Deleted My ChatGPT Account – And What I’m Using Instead
I recently decided to delete my ChatGPT account. Why? Because I refuse to contribute to training proprietary AI models that only make BigTech more powerful....
Big Tech’s Privacy Paradox: Breaking Free from Digital Surveillance – Session, Aug 2025
“Discover how your ‘free’ digital services come at the cost of your privacy – and what you can do about it” Description In this eye-opening 2-hour session,...
Privacy Matters: Why I Switched from Gmail to Zoho Mail
In a world where personal data is constantly mined, I realized that even my inbox isn’t as private as it should be. Gmail and services like it scan emails...
Presentations as source code
Creating presentations doesn’t have to mean wrestling with clunky, proprietary software. By treating presentation development like source code, I discovered...
Nextcloud: Private Cloud
In today’s digital world, cloud storage and synchronization services are essential for managing files, calendars, and contacts across multiple devices....
Syncthing: Syncing Between Android, Windows, iOS
For years, I struggled with clunky cloud services and complex sync tools until I discovered Syncthing—a blazing-fast, open-source file synchronization...
GitLab
I recently made the switch from Bitbucket to GitLab, and I wanted to share my experience.1. Open Source: GitLab is fully open source2. User-Friendly...
VSCode and VsCodium
Although VSCode is open source, Microsoft while building the binary executable adds proprietary code that collect information about the users even if they...
Replacing Google Email, Contacts and Calendar
Because we got used to major service providers such as Google, or Microsoft, we think of these services, email/Contacts/Calendar as one integrated service,...
Removing Google Drive and Docs
Simply I reverted back to use my Flash drive as a backup mechanism. I removed Google Drive application and stopped using Google Docs. I already has Office,...
Moving away from Google Photos
Recently I became more aware of security issues and worry about how free google services are not really free. They are collecting my info and sell it to...
Android Performance Story
I am developing a personal finance application and it uses SQLite to store all of its data. I had slowness in the application where I calculate balance for...
Using UUID as a Primary Key
I am developing a personal finance application on mobile and web. Data should be synced two ways between the mobile app and the web application. The data...
JHipster Pros and Cons
Jhipster is a web application scaffold that generates backend and frontend code for CRUD applications. You describe entities in JDL format among other...
Refactoring and Git Developer Story
I refactored a critical long class that has very long member functions. My main intention was to: Extract many smaller member functions to enhance class...
Lesson Learned: Code Regression
Giving advice is not very effective most of the time. Sharing real experiences and trouble and how it is handled is more effective. The best is whoever...
Refactoring Tools
I used IntelliJ to do some package renaming refactoring. I was confident that it was safe to do so, however, other parts of the code had changed when they...
Technical Codebase Visibility
In the last post, I wrote about the problems that happen because of the lack of technical codebase management. First, you can not do anything without...
