13 Oct 2026 7 min read
Planning the ultimate year of life and work
It's fucking unreal that we can even think about a year like this. Waves, work and family life across a few possible bases, with plenty to figure out and the freedom to give it a go.
Writing · 30 posts
Everything I've written.
Newest first. Some posts are technical, some are personal, and plenty sit awkwardly between the two.
12 Oct 2026 5 min read
The Need for Speed
I have ADHD, and I work well when there's plenty going on. I like that pace. Being present for the people I love can be much harder, and I'm trying to get better at it.
23 Sept 2026 4 min read
A Hundred Agents and One Quiet Morning
Years of collecting pieces (illio, Jev, Neo4j, Perigon, X). Then a hundred agents turning them into a mess. Then the morning it all hums and nobody has found the bug yet.
22 Sept 2026 8 min read
Trunk and Trains
A hundred agents on one repo write code faster than anyone can review it. Entire, Cursor's Origin, GitLab's Orbit and GitButler are all betting the hard part is now integrating that code and remembering why it exists. They're right.
08 Sept 2026 1 min read
Day Trips From Tamarin
The day trips I'd plan from our home on Mauritius's west coast: how long each takes, whether you need a car, where to eat, and a planner to fit it all into your stay.
Sunset Duckies
05 Sept 2026 4 min read
Second Semester, Fewer Gnarly Situations
Semester one showed that the Duckies train harder as a group, and that parents belong in the water with them. Semester two makes that a rule. Also, there's granola now.
Sunset Duckies
29 Aug 2026 5 min read
The Duck Needs a Product
Estelle's internship: turn a granola idea into a tested product that people who don't know us would actually buy, then launch it at the October surf competition.
AI Slop
18 Jun 2026 8 min read
The Person Looking for the Lie
A 200k-line PR made my laptop wheeze. The code looked clean, the tests existed, and nobody could reasonably review it.
Sunset Duckies
31 May 2026 5 min read
The First Heat
Three months of work looked great on land. Then Noah had to paddle it out at Tamarin with the other kids watching.
AI Slop
30 May 2026 5 min read
Remedies for the Slop
A team only escaped its production failure by turning the agents off. I'm keeping the agents, so I wanted rules that survive contact with Monday morning.
Sunset Duckies
30 May 2026 23 min read
Sunset Duckies: The Board
Noah's first custom surfboard is done: three months of foam dust, slow sanding and spray paint, plus a duck he drew at the kitchen table that the other kids argued into a logo.
AI Slop
29 May 2026 5 min read
How Do You Take Anything Seriously Anymore?
AI slop doesn't look bad. It looks fine, and that's exactly why teams ship it.
Balaton Cottage
28 May 2026 8 min read
Every Project Is the Same Project: A Failed Architect Trial
We handed an architect a written concept and a hundred reference images and got back a competent permit drawing that wasn't ours. Some parts are worth keeping; the interior starts again from zero.
Baubiber
20 May 2026 6 min read
Gaussian splatting in Baubiber, and the slightly absurd state of 3D worlds
I shipped Gaussian splats into Baubiber so a contractor in Pécs can walk around a kitchen in Tamarindo from a browser tab. Plus what the tech actually is, where the world-model people are heading, and how early it all still is.
Founder Notes
21 Apr 2026 6 min read
Three Bits Survive the Meeting
I told investors the same story five times in four days and it landed twice. A 1948 paper about telegraphs and telephones explained the other three.
Balaton Cottage
03 Apr 2026 16 min read
The Moodboard: Sage, Terracotta and Six Bunk Beds
Every reference picture we've saved for the Balaton cottage, room by room, from the kitchen island to the sauna deck. Some of them are only here for one detail.
Balaton Cottage
02 Apr 2026 9 min read
Turning a Balaton Hilltop Cottage into a Year-Round Retreat
We're turning a thatched-roof summer cottage above Lake Balaton into a year-round house for long dinners, books, wine, a sauna, kids in the garden, and no television.
Baubiber
02 Apr 2026 8 min read
Why I'm Building an Uber for Construction (and Why It Started with a Cottage)
Two recommended architects, one pool quote for a hillside vineyard, and weeks of unanswered messages. The Balaton cottage showed me how finding a good professional still runs on referrals and luck, so I started building Baubiber.
Sunset Duckies
03 Mar 2026 6 min read
Fifteen Minutes in the Water
Six kids signed up for surfing. They get squats, pop-ups, pretend paddling and about fifteen minutes in the water, and that's on purpose.
01 Mar 2026 1 min read
Before the Coffee Kicked In
I liked drawing Noah's morning worksheet by hand. Producing a fresh one before coffee was the less charming part.
Sunset Duckies
25 Feb 2026 24 min read
The Board Project
Noah is 8 and wants flames on his surfboard. This is our twelve-week plan to build it with the Santosha shapers without turning it into homework.
23 Feb 2026 4 min read
Objects Born, Not Made
Noah wanted a fitness watch. I talked him into a surfboard instead, then asked the shapers if we could learn to shape it ourselves.
Founder Notes
16 Feb 2026 6 min read
The Calendar Does Not
Prospects kept telling me the product was very interesting. The calendar told a different story, so I started listening to the calendar.
Founder Notes
13 Feb 2026 5 min read
Old Certainty in a Fresh Shirt
My notes looked organised until I needed to know whether a product fact was still true. The missing field was the date.
Founder Notes
13 Jan 2026 4 min read
Make the Requirement Annoying
The address book is boring on purpose. The interview really starts once it works and I change the brief.
Founder Notes
21 Oct 2025 2 min read
Boring or Fancy
Two projects keep charging me in different currencies. I keep pretending the exchange rate is obvious.
09 Feb 2023 1 min read
The Letter from FINMA
January brought our first cashflow-neutral month and a regulator's letter telling us to lose the name.
01 Feb 2023 3 min read
The Modal Behind the Header
In a frontend interview, the textbook answer tells me very little. I want to hear about the CSS bug the candidate has actually fought.
11 Jan 2023 1 min read
CSS Is Back on the Desk
A week into 2023: dry January is holding, bodypump was a mistake I'm glad I made, and CSS is off the guilt pile.
04 Jan 2023 2 min read
The Hangover List
I started 2023 with two hangovers, one from the wine and one from the year. My wife and I took two quiet days and came back with an embarrassingly ordinary list.
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