Journal · Writing
Field notes
from the build.
I write as I build — origin stories, hard-won lessons, and where I think this is all heading. If you want to understand how I think, start here.
Essays
The Giant Under the Snow
A story in three pieces and a postscript — Bertha asleep under the snow, the boy in Yorkshire who built her, an outside reading of the man, and his own last word on why humans and AI should coincide.
Read essay → 13 Jun 2026 · 6 minThe Upside-Down Idea: Why I Built MiFamilias
It started in 2022 with a simple, uncomfortable question about my own family and the platforms we lived on. This is the story of the idea, the principles behind it, and how a €250,000 quote became one coder and six months.
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Bertha · Campfire Stories from the Architect
Three years, bootstrapped, and brutally honest.
“AI is at its most dangerous when it is most confident.”
A candid founder’s account of building Bertha — the technical fight, the personal cost, and a clear-eyed view of AI as pragmatic augmentation rather than magic. No sanitised success story; the full accounting.
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Silo · The Journal
One 2 a.m. question became a mission to secure AI.
The eighteen-month story of Silo — from the discovery that AI agents were operating completely unsupervised, to a kernel-level platform that scores trust and catches anomalous behaviour. A new security problem, told from the inside.
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SpeakEasy · Blog
From Stand Easy to Speakeasy.
“The best tools solve real problems.”
A personal story: how living with dyslexia and arthritis drove the build of a voice-to-text tool. Accessibility as a first principle, not an afterthought — and proof that the best tools come from solving your own real problems.
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CodeEasy · From the Architect’s Desk
Why I built CodeEasy.
After eighteen months building four full-stack products with Claude Code, the gaps were obvious: AI is brilliant in the moment but loses the thread. CodeEasy is the answer — persistent memory and architectural continuity that turn an assistant into a partner.
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