🧠 ReMemory

This is a tool that encrypts files and splits the decryption key among trusted friends using Shamir's Secret Sharing. For example, you can give pieces to 5 friends and require any 3 of them to cooperate to recover the key. No single friend can access your data alone. The threshold is up to you—from 3-of-5 for a group of friends to 2-of-2 for couples with shared private content that neither partner can access alone.

Each friend receives a self-contained bundle with recover.html—a browser-based tool that works offline, with no servers or internet required. If this website disappears, recovery still works.

Use One Big Server

A lot of ink is spent on the "monoliths vs. microservices" debate, but the real issue behind this debate is about whether distributed system architecture is worth the developer time and cost overheads. By thinking about the real operational considerations of our systems, we can get some insight into whether we actually need distributed systems for most things.