Thoughts, stories and ideas.
I have been a director of engineering for a bit over three years now, and I still hear and read what I call the "old rules" repeated over and over: a director should not spend time coding, good work takes time, protect the team from the business, get
This talk was given at the Web3 Summit 2026, in Berlin, the 19th June 2026. Watch it If you were there in the room, you know I was real and that I gave that talk. If you're reading this, you have no such guarantee and that's
An experiment in transparent, verifiable AI decision making and what it taught me about building trust in automated systems. Built on Polkadot
I believe that the architecture of the modern web not only makes meaningful decentralization difficult but that it also structurally precludes it. As a consequence, seemingly "decentralized" systems built on top of modern web architecture inevitably collapse toward centralized intermediaries.
We built the internet on email & passwords, coupled with an analog payment system based on typing 16-digit numbers into forms. If someone pitched this today, we’d laugh them out of the room. The answer might be in places most of our brightest minds aren't willing to look at - yet.
A better way to interact with Web3. Forget extensions, Polkadot on-chain Metadata coupled with Polkadot Vault show the way.
Write-up of how I created my first generative NFT collection on Polkadot.
Free software is better when it's simple to run, simple to understand, and simple to adapt. I argue that a lot of free software actually comes at a price that is not 0, and provide some hints and ideas for how I quantify "simple".
This article makes the case for offline mobile signers. Instead of juggling multiple wallets and trusting browser extensions, what if we had one secure tool that just handles the critical stuff?
LLMs in the middle: Content aware client-side filtering using browser extensions and local large language models to filter content across multiple websites.
I've been toying with the idea of creating my own business for a long while now. I have a lot of ideas and even more things that interest me that could be turned into businesses. What I lack, however, is time and perhaps focus to followup on each