Technology recommendations and architecture notes on Web, Cloud, and AI.
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- Cloud8 min read
Why I'm hosting personal projects on Cloudflare Workers in 2026
Workers, D1, R2, AI Search and Zero Trust: a tour of the Cloudflare stack behind this site and its AI chat, and why the bill comes to about the price of a coffee.
- Career9 min read
Fable, Opus, whatever's next: what AI actually changes about the architect's job
Every flagship model launch asks whether this is the one that changes the job. A solutions architect's view on what AI actually shifts in developer and architect work, and where to put your learning time.
- Dev tool17 min read
Auditing your site for accessibility with axe and Playwright
My first axe-core run found 131 serious accessibility violations. How I set up axe and Playwright for a WCAG 2.2 AA audit, what they caught, and what the October re-run on axe 4.14 turned up.
- AI14 min read
MCP servers worth your time: a working developer's setup for 2026
A practical tour of the Model Context Protocol servers I lean on day to day, plus the agent setup that ties them together: skills, subagents, linting rules and the bits of project documentation that actually pay off.
- Career14 min read
Why soft skills matter more than you think as a developer
Good code gets you through the door. Speaking up early, writing for your reader and asking why are what make a developer worth trusting, and agents haven't changed that.
- Self-hosting5 min read
Taking control: self-hosting my photo library with Immich
Why I moved my photo library off Google Photos and onto Immich on my own NAS, and how the setup, the folder albums and the Google Takeout import went.
- Self-hosting8 min read
My home NAS setup: a dive into the unknown
Building a silent TrueNAS server for family photos, films and backups, and how it has changed since: Jellyfin on the NAS only, Storj's new pricing and an honest look at RAIDZ1.