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Tom Evslin spent the early nineteen nineties as what he calls an internet radical inside Microsoft, helping build what would eventually become Exchange and Outlook, while also steering AT&T's WorldNet project onto the web. His story is a reminder that the tools billions of people use daily were born from internal fights over whether the internet even mattered.
On the AI frontier, claims are circulating that DeepSeek's V four Pro is now matching GPT five point six Sol performance levels at a fraction of the cost. If that holds up under scrutiny, it continues a pattern we've been watching closely — frontier capability migrating rapidly toward cheaper, more accessible models, reshaping who can afford to compete.
And for developers looking to step back from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, a growing conversation around self-hosted static sites is gaining quiet momentum. The argument is straightforward — static architecture is lean, fast, and portable, and hosting it independently is more achievable than most people assume. It's a small but meaningful act of digital sovereignty.
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