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A curated route into the main ideas on this site.
This site is mostly about technology and architecture, in the broadest sense: data, AI, databases, digital trust, security, and the way these things change how we work.
The easiest way in is through the main series.
Designing the Stack
AI changes the pressure on an architecture, but not the need for one. This series asks where a system decides what may happen when the caller can reason across systems but cannot be trusted to decide their state.
Start with The Guardian of Business State — Why the Database Must Own the Write Path .
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APIs in the Age of Agents
When software starts calling your systems on its own, the API stops being plumbing and becomes the boundary where reasoning meets enforcement. This series works through what agents actually demand of an API — and why most of them aren’t ready.
Start with Agents Don’t Replace APIs, They Expose How Weak Most APIs Already Are .
Read the APIs in the Age of Agents series
Database in the Age of AI
As AI systems begin writing to data they don’t understand, the database becomes the last place integrity can actually be enforced. This series is about what holds when the writes are no longer human.
Start with The Agent at the Gate .
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Craft & Code
My father was a carpenter, then a construction lecturer. His career crossed several versions of the same trade. This series follows that thread into software: what happens when tools change the economics of a craft, and whether skill disappears or simply moves somewhere less visible.
Start with AI Coding Tools Are Not the End of Craft .
Friday Coffee
Not everything worth thinking about fits neatly into an architecture diagram. Friday Coffee is where I step back from the technical posts and write about technology, work, memory, and change.
Start with The antenna, the inter-library loans and infinite patience .
Digital Safety
A different kind of series, for a general audience rather than specialists. Practical digital safety for normal users: payment cards, account permissions, cloud backup, and the small assumptions that create avoidable risk.
Start with Why You Should Change Your Debit Card Now .