The Fan Was the SIEM - How my AI agent Found a Cryptominer in My Homelab
I vibecoded an app with security issues. My Hermes Agent helped me diagnose and fix it within 1 minute.
Blog
Notes on building things
Reflections on engineering leadership, AI, platform work, and the patterns I keep coming back to.
How to Mature an Engineering Function Through the AI Maturity Curve
If the AI maturity model describes the stages of capability, the next question is more practical: how should an engineering organisation actually move through them?
How To Transform a 7 Year Old Company in 9 Months
Notes from the CTO: A Short History of Re-Building Synthetix Perps
The AI Maturity Model
A five-stage AI maturity model for software engineering, from chatbots to autonomous product development systems.
Workplace Culture - Beware Dominance Cloaked in Excitement
I’ve seen bad behaviour at big and small businesses I’ve worked in. It often stems from the small ways that people are allowed to get away with stuff.
Modern AI Stacks - Understanding the Layers and Value Capture Opportunities
There is a growing set of concerns about how to invest in AI startups. I believe there is plenty of pie to go around, and that the first mover advantage isn’t necessarily as great as it may at first seem.
Announcing my role as CEO of DEFY Labs
I’m excited to announce that I’ve been offered, and accepted, the role of CEO of DEFY Labs. DEFY Labs is the company behind the mobile game, DEFY, which is a web3 location-based AR game that draws players into the world of the DEFY revolution, fighting back against the nefarious Future Systems corporation.
How to Use Your Privilege to Better the World Around You
In this post I want to explore social inequality and what people in positions of social privilege can do to improve the situation by using their privilege to make things a tiny bit more equal.
How to Be More Effective by Developing an Internal Locus of Control
In this post I described the way in which I think the Stoics fall short in focusing on what we can control, without guidance on evaluating HOW to ascertain what is and is not in our control.
Agile Data Warehousing - It’s time.
The goal of this article is to provide a case for the adoption of agile software methodologies in data warehouse software development and demonstrate how it is possible.