Writing
This blog is my attempt to more regularly publish some writing. It's very informal. Sometimes long stories or cases; sometimes it's what I'd send you if you were to ask me what's on my mind this week in an email - and obviously too long for a tweet.
CRA Isn't New. OT Just Wasn't Listening.
The EU Cyber Resilience Act is panicking the OT world. Mission-critical software has shipped under stricter rules for thirty years. The standards aren't the problem. The architecture is.
Code Got Cheap. The Hard Part Didn't.
Coding agents made writing code fast. They did not make software fast. The bottleneck just moved.
Spec-Driven Development, but the Specs Are a Graph
A 12-lesson course that rebuilds the DeepLearning.AI spec-driven development tutorial on Rust + sphinx-needs — and the AgentClinic domain you build to learn it.
The 6x Tax You're Paying Without Knowing It
Why unstructured AI coding burns your budget and still delivers incomplete results — and what a queryable traceability graph changes about that.
Adsify: Why I Put a REST API in Front of TwinCAT ADS
Every team that needs PLC data writes its own bridge. Adsify is the one I got tired of rewriting.
Company as Code: You Don't Need a New DSL
Sphinx-needs already provides the primitives for encoding company structure, policies, and compliance as code. You just haven't pointed it at that domain yet.
iceoryx2 C# vs .NET IPC: The Numbers
Benchmarking zero-copy IPC against Channels and Named Pipes