As this attempt at reviving a blog progresses, I went to log in into my old Medium account and bumped into a queue of very old drafts: The draft had a couple of interesting notes: And also: It'll be awesome indeed!

I was watching Office Space the other night. There's this scene where the Bobs are interviewing Tom, the product manager. They're trying to understand what he does there. Tom's (frustrated) answer is that he takes the specs from the customers and brings them to the engineers. That film is from the late 90s and it captures some of what ...

“A solo developer product-minded founder with AI co-authorship, built a production-grade, multi-tenant SaaS with billing, authorisation, media management, email, analytics, documentation, and marketing pages in under two months. The git history reads like a startup sprint diary -- ambitious, relentless, occasionally messy, and ultimate...

Right now I’m looking at Claude Code running in the console. I’m watching it churn through stuff. For a few different reasons, this week has reminded me of a couple of old projects that were pretty intense and kind of fun in hindsight. The first one was about 25 years ago. We were building a CRM for the Nokia 9210. We were doing it in ...

I came across Granola and it's been absolutely fantastic for handling my meeting notes and organising them into neat, structured content. It excels at converting scattered thoughts into organised notes, capturing action items, and even helping with follow-up emails. But here's where it gets really interesting (for me)... I really don't...

I guess it's been a while since I blogged anything, and even more of a while since actively being on the ball. Nearly 17 years... The hiatus is nearly old enough to go to university. There's so much to unpack (2 venture backed startups, being part of a few interesting teams in the in-betweens), and having dug so far into the past I cou...