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Miell’s Law and Token Budgets
TL;DR Conway’s Law tells us that organisations create systems that mirror their communication systems. Jamie Dobson coin’s ‘Miell’s Law’ in a post about the work of our mutual friend (and his colleague) Ian Miell in his forthcoming book ‘Follow the Money‘: Organisations that design systems are constrained to produce systems that reflect the financial structures […]
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Tags: AI, amazon, budget, ChatGPT, Claude, coding, Conway, Conway's law, CoPilot, finance, Gemini, google, HR, Jenson Huang, Miell, Miell's law, NVidia, tokenmaxxing, tokens, Uber
May 2026
Pupdate It was Milo’s 5th birthday on the 12th, which meant a post about how he’s getting on. Sadly Max has also needed to visit the vets, with (we think) back ache, which might be the dreaded Intervertebral Disc Disease (IVDD). He’s been on reduced activity, so shorter walks, but thankfully seems pretty much back […]
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Tags: 2.5gb, 2.5gbe, cataract, dachshund, ethernet, MacBook, Miniature Dachshund, Neo, networking, Realtek, solar, Vespa
QCon London 2026
TL;DR QCon is one of my favourite events, and I’ve been to a lot of them over the years. 2026 was the best yet, so kudos to the programme committee and C4media organisers. The most fun bit was hosting the security track, where I got to run a mini security conference within the conference, with […]
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Tags: conference, InfoQ, QCon, security
TL;DR Coding is no longer the constraint. It’s now cheaper than ever to make software. But there are supply side constraints on innovation, and getting apps to market. Who dreams up something worth making? How do apps get in front of users? There’s also a demand side constraint on adoption – how do people learn […]
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Tags: AI, attention, cloud, coding, demand, DevOps, economics, ideas, innovation, saas, supply, theory of constraints
Silent PC GPU upgrade
TL;DR Nvidia have ended Linux support for my ‘Pascal’ GTX 1050 Ti GPU. I’ve been able to fit an RTX 5050 card in its place, though the process was problematic due to driver issues. And I’m still concerned that it can only be limited to 110W when my passive cooling is rated up to 75W. […]
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Tags: 1050 Ti, 5050, console, cooling, drivers, GPU, grub, GTX, Kubuntu, Linux, NVidia, Palit, passive, power, RTX, silent, StormX
Background We build a bunch of stuff for RISC-V using the Dart official Docker image, but the RISC-V images can often arrive some time (days) after the more mainstream images[1]. That means that if we merge a Dependabot PR for an updated image it might well be missing RISC-V, causing the Continuous Delivery (CD) pipeline […]
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Tags: CD, CI, Dart, Debian, Docker, GitHub Actions, image, manifest, RISC-V, testing
RISC-V Production Ready
TL;DR RISE did it’s job, and in the past couple of years RISC-V support has found its way into stable releases of key infrastructure software like Debian. So from a software perspective, it’s arguable that RISC-V is now ready for production. Progress has been a little slower on the hardware front, but hardware is… hard; […]
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Tags: Alpine, android, cloud, Dart, Debian, GhostWrite, Linux, RISC-V, riscv64, Scaleway, SOC, Trixie, Ubuntu
Last week my former colleague Doug Todd asked a question about recording decisions on BlueSky: Of course I replied suggesting Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), with a pointer to the at_protocol GitHub repo where we use them. A few days back Doug demoed how he’s using ADRs with his coding assistant (Claude and Claude Code), and […]
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Tags: ADR, ADRs, AI, architecture, Claude, coding assistant, decision, LLM
Dealing with Policy Debt
TL;DR Start writing down why decisions are made. Future you may thank you. Future other person who’s wondering what you were thinking may also thank you. Then keep a dependency graph of the things impacted by the decision. It will help unravel what gets woven around it. Background I was at an excellent AFCEA event […]
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Tags: ADRs, AFCEA, Agile, architecture, change, compliance, culture, debt, decisions, innovation, policy
Silent PC upgrade
TL;DR After 6.5y+ of service my PC needed a refresh – so it has a new motherboard, CPU, RAM and SSD, and I’ve taken the opportunity to switch to Linux. It’s still completely silent, but noticeably faster :) Background I built a Silent PC based on a Streacom DB4 case back in the summer of […]
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Tags: benchmark, CPU, DB4, Intel, Kubuntu, Linux, motherboard, PC, QuietPC, RAM, silent, ssd, Streacom, Ubuntu
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