I blogged from 2003 to 2018. Somewhere along the way I lost the keys to that site, and after enough failed password resets and support tickets, I’ve accepted it’s gone. Fifteen years of posts, sitting on a server I can no longer reach. There’s a lesson in that about owning your own platform, which feels fitting given what I want to write about here.

So: a fresh start, on my own terms this time.

This site doesn’t have a single theme, and I’m not going to pretend otherwise. Here’s roughly what you can expect:

AI ecosystems and alliances — this is closest to what I do for a living, and where I’ll probably write most. The AI landscape isn’t really a single market; it’s a tangle of partnerships, procurement deals, and platform bets that decide who actually gets to build what. I spend my working life evaluating those relationships from the inside, and I want to write about the parts that don’t make it into vendor decks or industry reports: how these alliances actually form, why certain partnerships make sense on paper and fall apart in practice, and what the shape of the ecosystem means for the businesses trying to build on top of it.

Contained — my own startup, building an AI operating system for fresh produce supply chains. I’ll write about the building itself: the decisions, the mistakes, the slow grind of getting something real off the ground alongside a day job.

Clawbot / Hermes — a robotics project I’m working on. Nothing to show yet, but when it’s up and running I’ll document it here, warts and all.

Solar — I’ve got a solar and battery setup at home, and what interests me is the technology underneath it: how the system actually manages generation, storage and load, and what real independence from the grid looks like once you get past the marketing. Less “look at my panels,” more how the thing actually thinks.

Home network — the infrastructure side of running a household on your own terms. I run a small homelab (Proxmox, a couple of DNS resolvers doing their own filtering and recursion rather than leaning on a third party, that kind of thing), and I’ll write about what’s worked, what’s broken spectacularly, and what I’ve learned rebuilding bits of it from scratch. I’ll keep the specifics sensible, this is a blog, not a floor plan, but there’s plenty to share about the process.

Digital privacy — the practical end of things: moving away from mainstream email toward something like Proton, running your own ad and tracker blocking (Pi-hole and friends), and generally trying to reduce how much of your life gets handed to someone else’s servers by default. I’ll cover what’s actually worth doing versus what’s mostly theatre.

And whatever else takes my fancy — because the best thing about a blog with no single subject is that it doesn’t need one.

I make no promises about posting frequency, the last time I ran a blog it lasted fifteen years, so consistency clearly isn’t the issue. What I can promise is that when I do write, it’ll be because I’ve got something worth saying.

Thanks for reading. More soon.