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Passkeys and hardware keys stop phishing for the living, but they often die with the device. A single-phone passkey, iCloud Keychain (excluded from Apple Legacy Contact), or one YubiKey can leave a family with a lock and no spare. Build a survivable second path: synced vault access, two hardware keys, recovery codes, and a note in your delivery.

A setting inside Apple or Google can outrank your will. Here's the actual hierarchy, the Keychain hole, and how to make the settings and the documents say the same names.

Estate plans decay from the day you make them. Here's a catalog of what silently breaks, plus a quarterly and annual maintenance schedule to keep yours alive.

A legacy journal is written for someone, not just about yourself. Here's how to start one, keep it going, and make sure your family actually receives it.

An "If I'm Gone" journal is one sealed place that answers what your family needs on the worst day: who to call, where the will and insurance are, legal and medical wishes, funeral preferences, who depends on you, and what you want them to know. In KinSwitch you can build it as a notebook, attach the real documents, and put it on a deadman switch (or share it now) so it arrives when it is needed.

A password manager break-glass kit is the ordered instructions that get one trusted person into your vault and the accounts behind it when you cannot unlock them. Include the master path, 2FA backup, and device unlock steps. Store the kit in KinSwitch so it delivers if you miss check-ins. Start free at kinswitch.app/register.

KinSwitch now connects to Claude. Ask it to draft notes and notebooks for you, everything stays encrypted at rest, and Claude only has access during sessions you start and can revoke.

If you've ever designed a distributed system, you already know how to do digital estate planning. The vocabulary is the same, single point of failure, failover, RTO, audit log, and the question is the same: what happens to a critical node when it goes down? You just haven't applied the framework to yourself yet.

Your code outlives you. Your accounts don't. Your npm packages keep being downloaded a million times a week with nobody at the wheel. A look at what actually happens to a developer's open source footprint after death, and why the bus factor of half the internet is one.

The average Steam user has a library worth $1,500+. Serious gamers pass $10,000. Add consoles, subscriptions, in-game currencies, and Twitch subs, and gaming becomes a five-figure digital asset, one almost no estate plan addresses.