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Building software, for the love of it.
Architect, developer, or consultant — whatever the work calls for. My toolkit evolves; right now that's mostly Cloudflare's Developer Platform, which I've written a book about.
## recent_writing see_all →
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cloudflareCloudflare doesn't have AI psychosis. It has a thesis.
“I am not blaming the innovation. I am blaming the chaos of innovation. Everything feels DISJOINTED.” That’s the author of “Cloudflare’s AI psychosis”, on Hacker News this weekend,…
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aiCloudflare OS is an architecture of distrust
The strangest thing in the Cloudflare OS source code took me a while to understand.
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aiOpus 5 gets things wrong more quietly
There is a gap in one of my paintings, near the top-left where the brush ran out before it reached the edge, and through the gap you can…
## ~/projects all_142+ →
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TypeScriptNode.jsSQLiteSMTPIMAP4rev2DKIM/SPF/DMARC
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cutibrowser — a from-scratch desktop browser for the document web, with zero runtime dependencies 2026TypeScriptNode.js FFImacOS frameworks
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RADAR — an air-traffic-control scope over live ADS-B data 2026Node.jsSQLitevanilla JSHTML CanvasADS-B Exchange
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What's that flight? — the aircraft overhead right now, as a map of your sky 2026TypeScriptCloudflare Workersvanilla JSADS-B Exchange
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world — an infinite, procedurally generated natural world to walk and fly through 2026TypeScriptThree.jsWebGPUViteWeb Workers
## ~/work full_timeline →
- 2023 →CDS UK — Solution Architect · now
- 2021 – 2023HeadClear — Chief Technology Officer (co-founder)
- 2020 – 2021Advanced — Principal Software Engineer
- 2019 – 2020Mitrefinch — Developer → Delivery Team Lead
- 2016 – 2019IFS — Software Engineer → Senior
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