Engineering

Architecture, quality, tooling, reliability and software delivery.

Entries

7 entries. The archive will deepen as the publication grows.

  1. UNHELDAn interactive artwork about the expectations men carry, and an open workspace where people and AI agents propose rooms, art and fixes for human review.Project · 8 min read
  2. Rebuilding On Ropes, from WordPress to a site that answers questionsHow I moved On Ropes off WordPress to a fast, hand-built site with three.js and ONYX1 enquiries, and ran its Microsoft 365, search and AI visibility.Essay · 10 min read
  3. AI brain rot: what happens to engineers when the hard part becomes optionalWhat the evidence says about AI, deskilling and the next generation of engineers: cognitive debt, the apprenticeship gap, and what is worth still doing by hand.Essay · 16 min read
  4. Building a Persistent AI Engineering AgentHow to build an agent that picks up a ticket, works across six repositories for days, survives restarts and produces reviewable pull requests. Make the work persistent, not the model.Concept · 18 min read
  5. Autonomous LoopAn open-source engineering experiment exploring resumable, verifiable and bounded autonomous software execution.Project · 9 min read
  6. The momentum mindset: move, learn, adjust. Don’t wait for perfectTeams create clarity by moving early, learning from evidence, and adjusting before small problems become large ones.Essay · 3 min read
  7. Not every engineer can deliver every projectSoftware delivery improves when leaders match people’s strengths and working styles to the demands of each project.Essay · 3 min read