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2026

Two agents I use to stay focusedoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2026
Apple's monopoly on coherenceoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2026
Buy tokens, rent GPUs, or own the rack?original ↗
30 Jul 2026
The frontier intelligence gap is closingoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2026
Every worktree gets its own databaseoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2026
US Gov just killed Fable (for now)original ↗
13 Jun 2026
Fable 5 isn't a new Opus, it's a new ceilingoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2026
A classifier is mostly plumbingoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2026
Locking the new Siri out of the EU market is strangeoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2026
Turn a $3m AI bill into $1.9moriginal ↗
8 Jun 2026
Slightly coherent rant about a menuoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2026
On writingoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2026
Observations on AI agent token consumptionoriginal ↗
16 May 2026
How do you tell who's thinking?original ↗
7 May 2026
Peter Whitehouse – teaching over measurementoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2026
Some things never changeoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2026
My advice to a younger meoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2026
12 seconds to scan 3,000 rows — oopsoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2026
Workforce Engineering has always existed. We just never named it.original ↗
11 Apr 2026
What is Workforce Engineering, and how do you achieve flow state?original ↗
11 Apr 2026
Boring is better: Pushing 67k telemetry events per second into Postgresoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2026
Amortising a hallucinationoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2026
AI agents won't kill your system of record. Your rate limits will.original ↗
8 Feb 2026
Digital ID done right: verifiable claims without the surveillanceoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2026
Why I moved to Microsoft 365original ↗
12 Jan 2026
Digital sovereignty requires funding, not just adoptionoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2026
The best engineering teams can turn on a dimeoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2026

2025

Agentic coding is changing the engineering workforce—just not how you thinkoriginal ↗
24 Dec 2025
Reclaiming the commons: the case for an accountable internetoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2025
Moore's Law for AI is officially deadoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2025
Big teams, small team energyoriginal ↗
25 Nov 2025
Search kind of sucks noworiginal ↗
15 Nov 2025
How do you explain the £20M engineering spend?original ↗
5 Nov 2025
Fixing email spam with AI: When traditional filters aren't enoughoriginal ↗
2 Nov 2025
Pragmatic: Lessons from building (and winding down) an AI startuporiginal ↗
17 Oct 2025
Analytics is fine, tracking is the problemoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2025
AI everywhere is AI nowhereoriginal ↗
30 Sept 2025
Escaping the AI cost traporiginal ↗
26 Sept 2025
Web 4.0: The Pragmatic Internetoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2025
Berlin Airport reflections: on polymaths, ownership and executionoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2025
How to Not Decrypt WhatsApp Web (But Still Win)original ↗
6 Aug 2025
Teaching AI to feel – the architecture of emotional intelligenceoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2025
Stop reinventing the wheeloriginal ↗
10 Jul 2025
Know your Geebosoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2025
Don't take the cloud call - focus on your startuporiginal ↗
19 Jun 2025
Your website is pissing people offoriginal ↗
29 May 2025
Invest in integrations, not the platformsoriginal ↗
8 May 2025
How to actually get things builtoriginal ↗
2 May 2025
UK Pensions just aren't as good as Australian Superannuationoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2025
Getting started todayoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2025
I think BunnyCDN is the first real European answer to Cloudflareoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2025
The pitfalls of iCloud Mail - systematic failures and user hostilityoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2025
The cultural cost of a bad hireoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2025
Tinfoil hat moment this evening, could Cloudflare be a NSA front?original ↗
10 Feb 2025
I think B2C is the best way to a successful B2B productoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2025
Friday night code sessions - a lazy CleanShot X alternativeoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2025
It's 2025, and JIRA is still clunkyoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2025

2024

Operational transformation & conflict-free resolution for real-time collaboration applicationsoriginal ↗
1 May 2024
Techniques to make rebasing less of a headacheoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2024
I built a GPT-powered email assistant - Jamieoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2024

2023

Sharing encrypted data over short-form mediumsoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2023
Distributed Trust with Service-to-Service Authenticationoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2023
OCR on Edge Computeoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2023

2022

Quit nesting React providersoriginal ↗
10 May 2022
Save time importing Cloudflare DNS recordsoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2022

2021

Rebase to freshen up your branchoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2021
Apple could do a lot with distributed computeoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2021
Grocery Store coding challengeoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2021

2020

Token invalidation in distributed systemsoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2020

2016

Unit testing in Keystone JSoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2016
Let's Encrypt - time to get serious about TLSoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2016