Sessions Pile Up, AAS Stays Flat: Microservices, HikariCP, and Oracle Database

More replicas didn't cause the idle-session problem, and a bigger pool wouldn't have fixed it. The real driver was a config value nobody thought to question.

freedomTrack 2.0: A New Look, Clearer Controls, and Tracking That Follows You to Cruising Altitude

Not a rewrite — the kind of friction that only shows up once real people start using an app in ways you didn't fully plan for. Including, it turns out, at 900 km/h.

Introducing freedomCarb — AI Calorie Counting by Photo or Voice

A calorie tracker that starts from a photo instead of a food database search — point your camera at a plate and AI tells you what's on it in seconds.