Revolt of the Simple - Jan 2024

tl;dr: Recklessly adopting tools because big tech uses them is the biggest problem in tech.

Open Standards - Sep 2023

Why did XMPP fail?

Big Open Source - May 2023

tl;dr: Open source is a moat for big tech. SaaS is the best startups can do right now.

SaaS Propaganda - Jan 2023

I play devil’s advocate, steelmanning SaaS’ business use.

Antikubernetes Propaganda - Oct 2022

Once upon a time in a simpler world, there were but system admins. All these middleware, DNS, SMTP, firewall, network and security admins hadn’t yet splintered - the sysadmin responsable for all, gluing all teams together, making a system of discrete parts made by engineers and DBAs. Rare is the organization which has reached the scale to benefit from this specifications. More commonly, we poor moderns create systems too complex to wrap our heads around or escape (shackled to the costliest compute known to man).

Docker the Company's Death - Jul 2022

How to commercialize open source?

The Customer is Always Wrong - Jun 2021

How many times have you thought or heard: “What if there were a tool so powerful you could write your specifications in it, it would make them happen?” Well… That’s what a programming languageis! “No, no. I mean in human language, for real people!” Well, that’s COBOL!