Field notes from shipping the real thing.
Articles, talks, and platform write-ups. Honest about what worked, why, and the boring parts that made it stick.
- 10 Apr 2026
Towards AI I built an AI outbound agent. Here's what actually worked.
Honest write-up of building the AI sales agent at LumApps. What moved the metrics, what didn't, and the surprising amount of plumbing under a working agent.
- 11 Apr 2025
Substack Agentic AI: Simple ReAct Agent
A no-magic walkthrough of building a ReAct agent from scratch. The prompt loop, the tool calls, and where this pattern breaks in production.
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Java Annotations: A Comprehensive Guide
A focused guide to Java Annotations. Definition, creation, and usage through practical examples. Covers built-in annotations, custom annotation design, reflection techniques, and best practices.
- 12 Nov 2024
TowardsDev Visualising AI embeddings with a heatmap
A small but useful technique for understanding what your embedding model actually clusters together, and where it fails silently.
- 22 Aug 2024Medium
The blueprint for building high-impact teams
Six years of building engineering teams that ship. What actually compounds. Less about process, more about hiring for craft and curiosity.
- 4 Jun 2024Medium
High-performance, scalable URL shortener
Reference architecture and Terraform for a URL shortener that scales. Covers the hot-path cache, write fan-out, and the boring constraints that matter.
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AI and creativity
Talk at Front Conference on what AI changes about creative work, and what it does not.
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From infinite possibilities to finite results
Talk at AI for the Rest of Us (UK). Narrowing AI ambition down to one shippable thing.
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Microfrontends: revolutionising frontend architecture
Developer Week USA. The case for microfrontends from someone who shipped them at Beekeeper for millions of users.
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From idea to product
Dev Innovation Summit USA. The path from a vague idea to a customer-facing product, told via real ship-or-cut decisions.
- 21 Nov 2018
AWS Public Sector EPFL designs robots through artificial evolution
AWS Public Sector feature on the Robogen platform. Co-evolving robot bodies and brains via genetic algorithms, parallelised on AWS.
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