Episode 9: The Small-Tech Movement

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Released on March 17, 2026 with John Luther, Blain Smith, Mubashar Iqbal • Duration: 01:06:27 • Subscribe: RSS

This month, software engineer and systems builder Corey Snipes joined us to talk about small tech, digital sovereignty, LLMs, and why he's optimistic about the future of tech. Corey has 25 years of experience across security, cloud, and web-facing technologies. He likes to fix things, spend time in the woods, and play music. He's also a founding member of our Henhouse Computing Co-op. Listen to all our episodes at limeleaf.coop/podcast.

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Links to Stuff We Mention in the Show

Corey's links

• His personal blog
• Mastodon (also bridged to Bluesky)
• His consultancy, Twomile Heavy Industries, Inc.
• His product, Review Star
• The Laptop Rehabilitation Project

Other stuff we discussed

• Henhouse
• “Now is the time to be digitally sovereign” letter to EC
  • EU Digital Markets Act
• Aral Balkan on the Small Web
  • Small Tech Foundation
  • Kitten
• Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere (POSSE)
  • Molly White on POSSE and Digital Sovereignty
  • Molly White at SXSW 2025
• US hits record 2.1 million new business applications
• atproto.com
• Activity Pub
• freeourfeeds.org
• Eurosky.social
• Mastodon
• Bluesky
• Ghost publishing platform
• Micro.blog (Easy publishing and POSSE-style sharing to other platforms)
• Bruno for API testing and the Bruno vs Postman comparison