Category: Technology
- SMTP Family Tree 12 September 2026
One forest. Solid lines are real code ancestry or product continuation. Dashed ideas are design influence or “speaks SMTP to,” not shared source. There is almost no shared source-code tree…
- Against Slop: Authorship, Editing and Authenticity in Generative Production 12 September 2026
The more serious problem is that generative systems make it extraordinarily cheap to produce material possessing the external characteristics of finished work without necessarily containing the corresponding density of…
- Cyberdeck Build — RISC-V + E-Paper Bill of Materials 2 September 2026
cyberdeck built around an open-ISA RISC-V core and e-ink display
- Cyberdeck — Definition, Source & Taxonomy 2 September 2026
what is a cyberdeck. It confusing, here is a taxonomy.
- Open-Source Office Environment — Reference Architecture 31 August 2026
A coherent, end-to-end open-source stack for a small-to-mid-size office.
- FreeIPA Implementation Document 31 August 2026
A step-by-step implementation guide for deploying FreeIPA as the identity, authentication, and directory backbone of the open-source office estate defined in the Open-Source Office Environment — Reference Architecture…
- AI Conversation – Part 3 – Regulatory 30 August 2026
Regulatory Frameworks Regulatory frameworks like the EU GDPR and the EU AI Act approach corporate algorithmic scoring and automated profiling through two distinct, highly complementary lenses. While the GDPR regulates…
- The Silent Search 30 August 2026
The signal, if it comes, will not be what we expect. It will be what it is. The question is whether we are listening in a way that allows us to hear it.
- AI Alternate Portfolio 23 August 2026
What have we lost? This is the right question, because the current boom is not just adding something, it is actively crowding out something else. The Association for the Advancement…
- What we have lost. 23 August 2026
What we have lost is a balanced research portfolio. The dominant paradigm—massive transformer-based generative models trained primarily via next-token prediction on internet-scale text and multimodal data—has delivered…
- AI Bollocks 23 August 2026
AI bollocks is the gap between the gospel of imminent god-like intelligence and the messy, expensive, limited reality of statistical pattern-matchers that still hallucinate, fail basic reasoning, and struggle to…
- The Old Ones Will Never Go to Mars 16 August 2026
Bradbury, Frontier Capital and the Business of the Permanent Future Ray Bradbury’s “The Old Ones” lasts barely a page, yet it contains an entire theory of colonisation. By the time…
- EA – An Actual Model of a Business? 15 August 2026
If you genuinely want to understand how a business is structured and how it improves, think of it as seven interacting systems. Capabilities sit across these systems as a vocabulary…
- EA Part Three: The Architecture in Motion (Worked Examples) 15 August 2026
The true test of any architectural framework is how it handles reality. When subjected to the friction of legacy infrastructure, human behavior, and budget constraints, theoretical models often collapse. To…
- EA Part Two: Domains, Views, and How to Use the Architecture 15 August 2026
If the seven structural systems (Value, Work, Organisation, Information, Technology, Economics, Governance) are the physics of the enterprise, and Capabilities are the vocabulary, then Domains and Views are how we…
- EA Part One: The Anatomy of the Enterprise 15 August 2026
To understand a business is to look past its marketing, its mission statements, and its organizational chart. Beneath those abstractions, a business is an engineered entity—a complex, dynamic machine designed…
- Managing Successful Outcomes in Complex Business Transformations: A Theoretical Synthesis 15 August 2026
Successful business transformation requires organizations to evolve beyond treating capability upgrades as isolated technological deployments. Contemporary academic and practitioner theories emphasize that sustainable…
- The Laments of Business Architecture 14 August 2026
Business Architecture begins with a noble ambition: Understand how the organisation works. It then immediately draws 146 coloured boxes. These boxes are called capabilities. Nobody is entirely sure what some…
- Zen and the Art of Solution Architecture 14 August 2026
Solution Architecture begins with a simple question: “What are we actually trying to do?” This question is rarely welcomed. The project has already been named. The budget has been estimated….
- The Tao of Solution Assurance 14 August 2026
Solution Assurance is the ancient corporate discipline of examining a design after everybody important has already committed to it, identifying several serious risks, documenting them carefully, and then watching the…