Blah blah blah co-founder blah blah blah. While I don’t discount the fact that there are many many lovely pairs or co-founders who’ve succeeded (and also failed), too many people miss the fact that amazing things can and have been done by one person.

For a hardware hacker, things used to be bit more difficult. Heck, now even I, with or without my worthless paper of a degree, can get started and start hacking physical things. Just buy a couple of things (from the tools necessary to an entire build kit), crack open or brew your favorite beverage, and start trying things. Don’t forget about 3D printing: Just copy and paste ALL THE THINGS.

But for a software hacker, it’s always been very very easy to get started. Well, it’s been easy ever since cool people who came before me decided to open up their source code and share to the world their findings.

I am a software hacker. An army of one, powered by the millions of hackers who have come before me, powering the billions of hackers to come.

The more I compute, the more I realize it’s going to be hard to compute in a different way.

The keyboard that I use, the shortcuts that I memorize, the Vim scripts that I invoke… all of it is becoming a crutch.

But really, I can’t shun all these things because there is a possibility that all of these things will fall apart. I’d have to go back to using paper, and trying to exist in a time where computers didn’t exist.

But what about when papers didn’t exist? Oh dear, I’m taking it too far.

I think the post-apocalypse world scenarios feel a bit too real to me.

But it’s these things that make me worried in some ways: How much are we dependent on technology? On the frameworks we create awesome things with?

I need to stop asking these questions, unless I can somehow get paid for it, because it’s taking up too much of my time.

And so the digital media library continues to shrink, of course, with the help of yet more digital silos.

Not even touching the subject of the MP3 codec itself, I wonder if all this trouble is worth it if the cloud shuts down and all I have left are my local devices.

Heck, what happens if there is a nuclear apocalypse tomorrow? How will I find my tunes?!

Hmm, too much spring cleaning today. Back to MongoDB.

And even more data removal. Huzzah.

Settings management.

I want a consistent key repeat and delay speed across my Windows and Linux environments. I’m talking exactly the same number.

Mouse speed and acceleration. Power profiles. User accounts?

Of course, stuff like this only important if we’re still talking about traditional desktop paradigms. What about when we all have tablets with WebKit browsers?

Looking forward to that day…