ANALYSIS
API DEPRECATION AS CORPORATE POWER MOVE
How platform providers weaponize interface control to consolidate power and eliminate ecosystem alternatives through strategic API termination
SYSTEM ANALYSIS ARCHIVE
How platform providers weaponize interface control to consolidate power and eliminate ecosystem alternatives through strategic API termination
How governments and ISPs weaponize name resolution to control internet reachability through silent infrastructure censorship.
How institutions weaponize legal frameworks to control digital infrastructure and enforce systemic compliance through code-as-law.
Examining how power moves through code and infrastructure, tracing the knowledge gaps between surface tools and deep system understanding.
How systems isolate what they cannot corrupt. Administrative violence as institutional response to non-coercible intelligence.
Five conversations operating outside the optimization loop—documenting agency that cannot be platformed, creativity that corrupts when formatted, and communities that route around central servers.
The invisible operators who keep legacy systems alive - when innovation moves on, maintanance becomes civilisational memory.
1heavy0 is a systems analysis project examining how technical infrastructure concentrates power, defers maintenance, and fails. We study the layers beneath interfaces—where architecture becomes governance, protocols become politics, and operational decisions shape long-term outcomes.
Our work focuses on cloud platforms, payment systems, identity infrastructure, AI stacks, protocol governance, and maintenance regimes. Technology is treated as infrastructure: layered, institutional, and inseparable from power.
We publish long-form analysis and periodic investigations grounded in technical documentation, historical context, and institutional analysis. Each piece stress-tests real systems by examining incentives, dependencies, and failure modes over time. We prioritize clarity, evidence, and structural understanding over speed or commentary.
This work is written for engineers, researchers, policymakers, and high-agency technologists who need to understand the systems they build, govern, or rely on—beyond vendor narratives and surface abstractions.
We are not first. We are thorough.