We need to own our computing experience

Originally when I talked about owning our own platform is this blog, I meant owning the stack that powers and serves the blog. Moving to your own VPS or servers or static pages in which you didn't depend on some *Blog As A Service* company such as Wordpress.com. Eventually, I [started talking about owning the workflow that empowered your blog experience](https://andregarzia.com/2026/02/building-your-own-blogging-tools-is-a-fun-journey.html) not only your posting experience but your reading experience. To that effect, I showed how I created my own blog reader and integrated that into Firefox and also my own blog editor. Recently, I think that we need to move further into owning more and more of our computing experience. The avalanche of LLM/AI based slop solutions being force fed into our lives is radicalising me towards a very specific path in which owning my own platform now needs to mean controlling my own computing experience. I been an Apple user for a very long time and have…