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Sep 26, 2026◆6 min read
AI sovereignty: when assistance becomes dependence
The point of control isn't simply running a model locally. It's whether I can still check, refuse, change or replace the system I rely on.
May 14, 2023◆5 min read
Managing the whole forest
AI assistants let me work across more of a product than I could before. The constraint has moved: deciding what deserves attention, and proving the pieces work together.
Dec 6, 2021◆4 min read
Why I chose Strapi for a crypto dashboard
A 2021 backend decision: public market data, private portfolios, and the cost of keeping control of the stack.
Dec 5, 2020◆11 min read
Scaling WordPress: from bigger servers to a decoupled frontend
Years of tuning PHP and MySQL, a Kubernetes and Helm cluster that finally scaled WordPress, and why moving the interface out of it was still the change that mattered.