There’s a quiet assumption many of us make about our digital lives: that because our photos are in iCloud, our documents in Google Drive, and our files syncing to OneDrive,…
If you read my earlier piece on Google account permissions and went away to check your list, well done. But Google isn’t the only door you may have left open.…
I’m 61. I wrote my first line of code at 15. I have a VP-level job, two dogs, a new wife, and a blog I’m somehow managing to post to…
Go to myaccount.google.com/permissions right now. Count how many apps are listed. I’ll go first. I found seventeen. And I say that as someone who has never been particularly keen on…
In a recent post I argued that you should replace your debit card and switch to Apple Pay or Google Pay for online purchases. A few people asked the obvious…
There’s a piece of advice you won’t hear from your bank. Not because they don’t know — their security teams absolutely do — but because saying it out loud is…
I’ve been looking at some of the recent AI architecture models coming out of NVIDIA. They’re polished, coherent, and very strong on infrastructure. But something stood out immediately: they largely…
For a long time, the industry settled into a comfortable model for infrastructure. Two CPUs. A standard server. Add more boxes when you need more scale. Keep everything broadly interchangeable.…
In software development there has always been a tension between the effort invested before coding and the effort spent doing the coding. In mainframe days, the actual job of coding…
Earlier today, I looked at some work I did in ChatGPT in late February — about eight weeks ago — and it immediately struck me that the work needed to…
Simon Griffiths architects data-first systems, sceptical about the rest. Drawing on long experience across enterprise data, architecture, and AI, he prefers platforms designed for reality, not just the latest narrative.