I love Claude Code, but I use it so much that I regularly exhaust my weekly quota before the week ends. When that happens, I usually switch to other free-tier CLIs, e.g., Google Antigravity, GitHub Copilot, and, just last week, Mistral’s Vibe. I really wanted to try Vibe to evaluate the feasibility of moving away from Claude Code in favor of a more sovereign solution. Vibe only offers a single model by default, Mistral Medium 3.5.[…​]

I used Dropbox for decades, then switched to Google Drive. Both worked for most of my files. One file never fit, though: my KeePass password database. It’s the file I need on every device and the file I want to keep private the most. After one annoyance too many, I moved it to Syncthing over Tailscale. The rest stays on Google Drive, for now. This post describes why and how. The file that made me care My password manager is KeePass-based.[…​]

Nobody runs a SecurityManager in production. The usual reason given is that it does not survive a load test, and every guarantee in this series was bought with a check: a constraint on each call, an audit before each load, a principal set on each thread, a digest on each grant. Part 1 declared constraints on a remote call. Part 2 vetted code before a client loaded it. Part 3 and Part 4 established who is calling and carried that chain across the wire.[…​]