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I'm Steve — tech tinkerer, guitar modder, writer, and unlicensed philosopher living in the olive-covered hills of Andalucía. This site is where I store my musings, rants, projects, and passion projects. Grab a coffee and have a scroll.

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What I’m Up To Now

  • Rebuilding this site after my host had a siesta
  • Spray-painting guitars under the Andalusian sun
  • Running AI models locally and muttering about privacy

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My Data Has Claimed Asylum in a German Supermarket

Why I quit Dropbox, and why Europe is quietly doing the same thing with its fighter jets, its spy software and its money
My Data Has Claimed Asylum in a German Supermarket
I quit Dropbox this month and moved my files to Proton Drive. Not earth shattering news but one small step for man and all that. Nobody at Dropbox will have noticed. It was one bloke moving a few gigabytes from one cloud-shaped box to another. But the reason I did it is a small symptom of something much bigger going on, and the bigger thing is worth a blog post. I can't remember exactly when I signed up to Dropbox, but it was well over a decade ago. Back in 2008 it was one of those rare... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Tuesday, August 11, 2026 9:49:00 PM Categories: America Cloud Storage Economy Internet Politics
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Coding at the Speed of Thought

How an AI built my job-hunting app in five minutes, and why the developers still calling it "slop" are turning down half a salary
Coding at the Speed of Thought
I code. I don't just code for work; it's just something I do. I wouldn't call it a hobby, though. It's not like hauling a tackle bag into the car, driving off to a lake, and spending a relaxing morning pitting my wits against a fish. I code the same way a DIYer puts up a set of shelves. My life is pretty digital, and there's always another problem coming along where I think to myself, "A bit of code will fix that." So it was this week. I've been looking for work. I prefer not to, but... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Wednesday, July 15, 2026 3:51:00 AM Categories: Agentic AI AI agents AI coding Developer Productivity Future of Work Job Search Software Development Token Economy Vibecoding Work
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The Cardboard Box and the Cloud

One woman has built herself an external nervous system. I have a wall-planner.
The Cardboard Box and the Cloud
There's no good reason for it. I wrote my first "Hello World" back in 1974 and I've lived elbow-deep in computers ever since, yet when it comes to organising my own life, me and digital tech simply refuse to get along. What brought this on was a lady I follow on TikTok. She has ADHD, and she's vibe-coded herself an app that swallows an astonishing slice of her life and hands it back, neatly organised. The database behind it holds her sleep, meditation, exercise and calorie figures from... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, June 21, 2026 2:59:00 AM Categories: Family Lifeskills Tech Technology Thinking Work Writing
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