A new blog post

I just published my first blog post of 2026, De-Googling:

Since early last year, I’ve been trying to reduce my dependency on the big US tech companies, and US companies in general. Following Tim Bray, I’ve been thinking of this as de-Googling.

I don’t really want to get into the reasons, except to say that I’m under no illusion that my support (or lack of it) makes any difference to those companies. For me, it’s much more about reducing risk1, and about supporting smaller companies whose interests are more aligned with mine.

Anyways! I wanted write about my progress here, in case it’s useful to anyone else who’s also considering this.

TILs

I've also published 10 TILs since my last update:

• One-liners for downloading media - 2026-01-10
• Protomaps and PMTiles - 2026-01-06
• V8 Natives syntax - 2025-12-23
• Monoid - 2025-12-07
• Printing V8 bytecode - 2025-12-03
• Branded types in TypeScript - 2025-11-19
• Explicit resource management - 2025-10-09
• WebAssembly library initialization patterns - 2025-10-05
• FinalizationRegistry - 2025-09-25
• Faster formatting and linting - 2025-09-17

("Short notes on useful things I've learned" — you can find 'em all at https://github.com/pdubroy/til/.)

That's it for now. 'Til next time,

Pat