Orthogonal is a blog about software, AI, security, and the systems people build. Articles are the main event: explanations, source-based research, practical guides, and engineering trade-offs. The tools are supporting projects, not a condition for choosing a topic or following a tutorial.
What the blog covers
Read about AI agents and developer workflows, security and privacy, DevOps and self-hosted systems, or APIs and data engineering. Some articles examine financial data and trading software; these are educational engineering discussions, not personalized investment advice.
Start with the complete article archive, explore the topic guides, or follow new posts through RSS. Publication dates and later updates are labelled separately.
How articles are developed
Material claims should trace to primary documentation, specifications, or an observed check. A source-based explanation is not a hands-on product test. Test results, versions, limitations, and uncertainties should be stated rather than replaced with confident marketing language.
Automated drafts must pass privacy and source checks and an independent editorial review before publication. A failed check is a reason to revise or stop, not permission to invent evidence. Human-requested topics do not need to promote an Orthogonal product.
The shared Orthogonal Editorial Team byline is an editorial label, not a claim about team size, professional credentials, product ownership, or customer results.
Tools and other supporting pages
The tool directory links to individual introductions explaining purpose, limitations, input processing, and related articles. The applications keep their existing addresses. Use them when they fit the task; no article requires a purchase.
Homelab readers can also use the buying guides and Decision Kit / Buying Checklist. Its self-reported checks are not purchase approval, a sizing calculation, or a guarantee. Reusing existing hardware can be the right answer.
The separate Automation Reliability Service describes a scoped service and its inquiry process. It does not define the blog’s editorial agenda.
Corrections and privacy
Software, policies, and hardware change. Substantive corrections should explain what changed while preserving the original publication date. For a correction, link the public article and supporting source in the moderated discussion. Do not send credentials, private files, internal addresses, or confidential material.
Browser-based input processing is not a promise that a page makes no network requests. Read each tool’s notes about analytics, advertising, storage, and payment processing. RSS works without an email address; email subscriptions are not currently offered.
Funding and incentives
Relevant guides may contain disclosed affiliate links; some tools have optional paid features or support links. These do not require every article to recommend a product. A click is not proof of a purchase or commission.
Read the Affiliate Disclosure, Privacy Policy, and Terms of Service. The public parent brand and existing operator details remain unchanged.