10 posts filed under privacy.
MongrelDB encrypts every page, WAL frame, cache entry, and index checkpoint with AES-256-GCM, and Roamarr stacks field-level encryption on top, because encrypted at rest only means something when the defaults cover the boring files too.
Streaming keeps repricing, fragmenting, and delisting the things you wanted to watch, so we run the library on our own hardware with Stash as the server and Sinema as the Android TV client, and in 2026 that stack is finally boring enough to recommend.
The lock-in of hosted tools is a pile of small papercuts, so we built Tailshell for the terminal and a tiny Mailspring plugin for the inbox.
Hosted travel apps ask for an account because your itinerary, passport scans, cards, and real-time location are unusually valuable once correlated, and the account is the correlating key, which is why Roamarr runs as one container on your own hardware with no account at all.
Roamarr, Foxden, SpiderTypes, Sinema, and Tailshell all ship without accounts on our infrastructure, and the interesting part is what that absence does to the data model once the users table stops being the vendor's.
Every VisorCraft project, including the closed-source MongrelDB, ships with no telemetry, no event hooks, and no opt-out switch, because there is nothing to opt out of.
Every VisorCraft app works fully offline, with no account, no cloud, and no telemetry, and this is what that constraint actually buys you once the cloud is just one option among many.
SpiderTypes is a Three.js and Tone.js typing game that teaches home row through a baby spider climbing the waterspout, and the interesting part is that a static web app with localStorage as its entire data layer is still a real product when the scope is honest.
Sinema is a Kotlin and Media3 ExoPlayer Android TV client for Stash with D-pad controls, a PIN lock, and no telemetry, and the interesting part is why we wrote a native lean-back client instead of pointing a WebView at Stash's web UI.
Roamarr is a self-hosted travel organizer in SvelteKit 2 and MongrelDB that tracks flights, stays, documents, and expenses in one container with encrypted sensitive fields and no hosted account, and the interesting part is why self-hosting your itinerary stopped being a strange thing to suggest.
