The Fogbank analogy is wrong, and the real risk is narrower
Denis Stetskov’s piece this week, ‘The West Forgot How to Build. Now It’s Forgetting Code’, does a superb job of opening with the Fogbank story and the EU’s failure to deliver a...
JAMIE LORD
STAMFORD, LINCOLNSHIRE
[ jl ]
Solution Architect at CDS
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Stamford, Lincolnshire
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'm writing a book about.
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Writing tools for the agent that wrote them
Most of what I have shipped this year has been built using Claude Code. That part is no longer interesting on its own — half the engineering timeline is talking about it. What i...
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Building real products alone on Cloudflare and Claude Code
Six weeks ago I started building something. A real commercial SaaS product, not a prototype — authentication, billing, scheduled background work, document ingestion, AI generati...
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2026
AI-powered UK employment policy compliance platform
SvelteKitTypeScriptCloudflare WorkersD1R2Workers AIWorkflowsAI Gateway -
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AI-assisted cloud configuration auditing toolkit
TypeScriptSQLiteAzure SDKCloudflare APIClaude CodeMCP -
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Architecting on Cloudflare — the book
WorkersDurable ObjectsD1R2VectorizeWorkers AI -
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Alternative Hacker News reader with local caching
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2026
ADS-B receiver and data archiver
Raspberry Pi 5RTL-SDR V4readsbtar1090PythonSQLite
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Where I've worked
2023 →
CDS UK
Solution Architect
· now
2021 – 2023
HeadClear
Chief Technology Officer (co-founder)
2020 – 2021
Advanced
Principal Software Engineer
2019 – 2020
Mitrefinch
Developer → Delivery Team Lead
2016 – 2019
IFS
Software Engineer → Senior
Built by hand in Stamford, Lincolnshire.
123 posts · 128 projects · archive since 2013
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