Writing
Thoughts on engineering, leadership, and technology. I write about my experiences building teams, products, and systems that scale.
Yet another major outage caused by everybody using the same cloud provider
Cloudflare was down again, taking a swath of the web with it—and reminding us that monocultures are a choice, not a law of nature.
Reminiscing Over Old Projects
Looking back at a door entry system built in 2014 - prototyped at rLab, deployed at Wirehive, and a reminder of the joy of building things that actually work.
Work, Woodlands, and Geocaches
When work expands to fill every gap, you stop noticing how much you are giving up. Here's how I learned to find hobbies that actually pull you out of work.
Which year does your role become redundant? A personal playbook for now through 2045
Evidence-led guidance for individuals in the Western world. What to do, when to do it, and which signals to watch so you stay employable through the next four waves of automation.
The 2026 Computer-Literate Bar
Why computer literacy matters now, and exactly what to do to reach the 2026 bar.
Consolidation, Again
When one AWS region falters and half the internet stumbles, it tells us something deeper about the state of technology. This is not just a cloud story. It is a consolidation story.
The Slack I Loved Is Slipping Away
Salesforce's grip on Slack is reshaping it from a neutral collaboration layer into a gated CRM surface, squeezing communities and third-party builders.
Firepit Planner
Building a firepit for the forest school woods with a little help from Cursor
The Shape of Agentic Work
A field guide to agents that actually ship work: embedded in your systems, guided by policy, and obsessed with closing the loop.
Day 1 at Beyond EMEA 2025: Building from Within
How Pax8 is proving the Managed Intelligence Provider model by living it first through Customer Zero.
Touchdown in Amsterdam
On the ground for Pax8 Beyond EMEA. What I’m watching as AI and automation hit real workflows.
Open Source, Open Home: A Practical Approach to Home Automation
Building a house that's polite, not flashy - using Home Assistant, open source tools, and automation-first thinking to create a transparent, adoptable home system.
New Role: SVP, Workflow Engineering at Pax8
The three outcomes my new role at Pax8 is designed to deliver: enablement, automation, and orchestration.
Hiring for AI? Look Beyond Certifications
The three kinds of AI work-and why the real ROI is new capabilities, not hours saved.
Against the Great Convergence
Why I am fighting the consolidation of the internet and how you can too
Operational AI that actually ships
The routing layer that makes agentic systems safe and measurable in enterprise operations
CI/CD for communication: how we ship clarity every week
Apply product discipline to leadership comms so people know what matters and why, every week.
From single region to product pods
How we moved from a regional service hub to product oriented pods with worldwide coverage
Why I still care about DNS, routing, and logs when people want to talk models
Linux and networking roots that still apply to AI and modern systems