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I reverse engineered the cloud API behind my Sage coffee machine, turned it into a Home Assistant integration, and accidentally made a small group of strangers' mornings slightly better.

AI has made code, tests, policy, documentation, and organisational machinery almost free to produce. It has not made any of them free to own.

AI has collapsed the cost of building software again, and the debt this time will not be bad code but agents nobody owns, knows about, or can account for.

Microsoft has switched off Graph access to Teams meeting transcripts by default, breaking already-consented third-party integrations while its own Copilot defaults stay on.

How Steve Gibson's SQRL anticipated passkeys, and why timing and coordination mattered more than the cryptography.

Output is not the same as potential. Full-time home working weakens passive learning, flattens the development curve, and does younger workers a disservice.

A collection of rules, habits, and bits of borrowed wisdom that have shaped how I try to build services, lead teams, and do business with people.

Why the next enterprise AI fight is less about the smartest model and more about the harness: interfaces, runtimes, connectors, skills, governance, identity and agent-ready software.

Agent Skills and AI coworkers create real leverage, but personal productivity gains are not the same as operational automation.

Investigating battery drain during suspend on a Framework 13 running Ubuntu, finding out s2idle is working perfectly, and setting up suspend-then-hibernate as a sensible workaround.