The mc tech stack
One of the core philosophies that drew me to crypto was the emphasis on self-sovereignty and reducing dependence on centralized intermediaries.
While the financial rails were part of this (I briefly pursued the idea of building a private capital markets biz on blockchain), it really extended to a swathe of digital infrastructure.
Here's how I've approached my personal tech stack:
- LLM — (a) Claude as go-to; (b) local installation of Ollama, running Mistral's open-source NeMo model via Open WebUI
- Data storage — Backups to local SSD using Restic, but still using iCloud (not sure how to kick this)
- Website — (a) WordPress (b. 2013); (b) static site on Github Pages built with Jekyll
- Bits blog — Bear Blog
- Email — Proton
- Messaging — (a) Signal; (b) Quorum (light dabbling; need to find channels / groups)
- Social media — BlueSky (rarely); Farcaster (never, though my Thucydides bot lives)
- Notes — Obsidian
- DNS sinkhole — Pi-hole
- VPN — Proton
- Browser — LibreWolf
In an ideal world, zero-knowledge proofs would be the foundation of digital interactions. Can't come soon enough.