People who see me make a smoothie tend to make the same category error. They see a blender, berries, almond milk, something green and a scoop of protein powder, and they assume I am making a smoothie in the conventional sense: a 300-calorie drink that accompanies breakfast, or stands in for the cookie I would otherwise eat at three in the afternoon. I am not. My smoothies are about 1,100 calories, with 50 to 60 grams of protein, 85 to 100 grams of fat, a substantial amount of fiber, and usually less than 20 grams of digestible carbohydrate. They are lunch.

Every morning in summer, a white ship the size of an apartment block would appear in the bay below my house in Villefranche-sur-Mer. By nine, its tenders were shuttling people to the quay. By ten, the old town was full of them, holding phones in front of the painted facades, queuing for a nineteen-euro Aperol Spritz, buying lavender sachets stitched in a factory nowhere near Provence. By four they were gone, and the quay was hosed down for the next ship.

The license as a halo

Spend enough time in the Keycloak community and you will hear a particular argument, offered as though it settles everything. Keycloak is Apache 2.0. Anyone can take it, fork it, host it, sell it. And because of that, the reasoning goes, the people who build it stand on higher ground than the people who build Elasticsearch, or Redis, or Terraform. The license is not just a legal instrument. It is a character reference.