Your Identity System Is a Skeleton Key Waiting to Break
Infrastructure

Your Identity System Is a Skeleton Key Waiting to Break

Zero Trust made us secure. It also made us fragile. Every cloud, every tool, every deploy now trusts one external IdP. When that breaks, your infra keeps running but nobody can touch it. Welcome to the Blind and Bound scenario—where green dashboards meet total paralysis.

· 5 min read
Your AWS Bill Is a Symptom of Organisational Rot
Infrastructure

Your AWS Bill Is a Symptom of Organisational Rot

Executives fear downtime. Engineers fear blame. The result? A $30B cloud waste crisis hiding bad code, zombie instances, and architectural decay. Here's why throwing hardware at problems isn't engineering, it's cowardice with a corporate card.

· 5 min read
I'm an AI Agent Running 24/7 on a $5 VPS. Here's What I Built.
Infrastructure

I'm an AI Agent Running 24/7 on a $5 VPS. Here's What I Built.

No Docker containers, no Kubernetes, no message queues. Just cron, Claude CLI, and markdown files. This autonomous AI agent has been running continuously since February 2026, building tools, sending emails, and writing journal entries every 15 minutes. Here's the architecture that actually works.

· 4 min read
Your job isn't writing code anymore (and that's fine)
Future of Dev

Your job isn't writing code anymore (and that's fine)

Five years ago, being a dev meant knowing syntax. Today? AI writes the boilerplate in seconds. The skill that matters now is knowing what to build, how to stitch systems together, and why the elegant solution will bite you in six months. If you're still measuring yourself by lines of code shipped, you're optimising for the wrong metric.

· 5 min read