A Tale of a Rubik's Cube, Mahler's Ninth, and a Misbehaving Data Warehouse
A Rubik's Cube, Mahler's Ninth and a slow data warehouse all point to the same skill: building internal models that connect representation, reality and judgement.
Thinking Ahead
Personal writing on technology, architecture, AI, digital trust, and the occasional Friday coffee.
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Not Everything Should Be an API
APIs are right for business interaction, but audit, analytics, synchronisation, active-active operation and recovery need patterns chosen by purpose.
The Disconnected Vector Store — Why AI Storage Needs to Move Inside the Boundary
Vector stores and agent memory inherit the governance problem of external storage. AI context should not become an ungoverned parallel truth.
The Borrowed Projector
My father already knew his trade in his hands. Becoming a lecturer meant serving a second apprenticeship on top of it — and what he taught me in a darkened living room was never really about roof trusses.