Thoughts on technology, design, development, and building digital products that make a difference.
A roadmap is a sequence of decisions, not a Gantt chart. How to build one that survives contact with reality, on a single page, without a technical background.
Vendors use twenty words for four ideas. What agentic, multimodal, fine-tuned, RAG, inference and the rest actually mean, and which ones should make you ask a follow-up question.
Triage is a hospital word: decide what needs attention now, what can wait, and what needs nothing at all. Applied to email it is a simple system, not a piece of software.
Cloud hosting is renting someone else's computer, and the bill is rarely as simple as that. What each line on the invoice buys you, and which parts you can safely ignore.
Around 55% of business data is never used for anything. A quick way to work out whether yours is an asset, a liability, or simply a storage bill you have stopped noticing.
The Digital Omnibus pushed the high-risk deadline to December 2027. Plenty of other duties did not move at all. A plain-English summary of what actually changed for UK businesses.
Standing still is not free, it is just billed differently. Five honest answers to the question every business owner asks before a modernisation project, including when the answer is to do nothing.
A month-by-month breakdown of what happens when you bring a fractional CTO on board.
A jargon-free explanation of full-stack development and why it matters when choosing a development partner.
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