The Model Context Protocol is everywhere. Anthropic released it in November 2024, and within months, it became the de facto standard for connecting AI assistants to external tools and data. OpenAI and Google DeepMind have adopted it. It's being called "USB-C for AI applications." I built
The deliberate path from throwaway code to production platform Most founders pick a tech stack, start building, and hope for the best. I'm building VenueLinQ, a compliance and operations platform for UK hospitality venues, and I'm building it three times. Deliberately. Not because I got it
Every system you build is already dying. That sounds dramatic, but after years of developing technology across multiple sectors, I have observed this pattern recur with uncomfortable consistency. Organisations build platforms; those platforms succeed; and then, slowly and invisibly, they begin to calcify. Velocity drops. Releases get harder. The team
I've spent 25 years building things. That probably sounds obvious for someone with "technology" in their job title, but it's worth saying because not everyone in technology actually builds anymore. Plenty of people manage. Advise. Review. Sit in meetings about what should be built.
After two decades of building SaaS platforms, I've witnessed dozens of acquisitions derailed by a single technical decision made years earlier. The choice between multi-tenant and single-tenant architecture isn't just a technical detail; it's the difference between an 8x exit multiple and being wound
How a Sunday morning disaster confirmed everything about compound interest in software Sunday morning, two weeks before Christmas. My wife toasts a teacake, the power trips. The fuse box is in the garage. The garage door is electric. There's no manual override. There's no internal door.