2025-07-07
Tech: My Summer Car Project
Or, how I found out the limits of vibe-coding, and learned to love them.
While this blog officially exists to help me think, the real reason behind its existence is a nefarious plot to show the world how footnotes are the most extraordinary literary invention ever.
2025-06-27
Tech: Unpacking the Digital DNA of Social
Summer 2025 special: What if we classified social media by their core technology? By focusing on the underlying architecture, we might gain a clearer understanding of how these services work and why they feel so distinct.
2025-05-28
Tech: kW/h is not the Question We Should Be Asking
How to rethink the conversation around AI energy use and the environmental costs of our digital footprint.
2024-11-19
Tech: Where the AI is taking us
My observations on the how the AI landscape is evolving, and the emerging four distinct approaches to creating AI powered services.
2024-11-07
Tech: Why Architecture Fails (and How to Fix It)
Lately, I've realized that the problem isn't architecture but how we approach it. We often jump into technical details without asking the crucial question: Why? Perhaps we get so caught up in how to build something that we forget why we're building it in the first place?
2024-02-23
Tech: What makes building quality services so hard?
Why is it so hard to build quality services? The real reasons are much simpler but more challenging to admit – than blaming the tech.
2024-02-06
Tech: The high cost of computation
Or what we need to understand when discussing AI and what it can do. And some hints on how to adjust our tech roadmaps and strategies.
2024-01-05
Tech: A pebble is not a monolith.
The Monolith vs. Microservices discussion is a prime example of how we try to oversimplify things. While microservices are a fantastic way to solve business problems at scale, they are not a panacea. A distributed computing paradigm will only reduce the complexity of a solution if the source of complexity is monolithic architecture.
2023-12-18
Tech: Beyond the generative revolution
My predictions for the tech trends of 2024. Besides the generative AI paradigm shift, I`m keeping tabs on the Edge, next-gen apps, composability, and low code – which all align with the guesses of the bigger names in the analytics industry.
2023-12-11
Tech: The Age of Stochastic Parrots
When tech forecasts and predictions look like LLM generated text, we are likely trying to solve the wrong problem with the LLMs.
2023-11-28
Tech: A convergence at the Edge
A question presented by Kaj Pyyhtiä led me to a bigger fish — a plausible, maybe even probable, tech convergence happening around the edge-compute space.
2023-11-13
Tech: Perhaps we should reinvent the wheel from time to time?
We have been watching Lego Ninjago with my older kid. And it's a lot like watching how the web industry evolves over time.
2023-11-09
Tech: Solving problems in the post-GenAI world
Why do developers (designers, product people, and so forth) suddenly need to learn to create genAI solutions?