Essays
Essays on engineering, personal systems, resilience, work and organisations.
-
Securing GitHub Actions in the Enterprise · Part 3
Why Pinning GitHub Actions Is Necessary — but Not Sufficient
Updated:11 min readPinning GitHub Actions prevents silent changes, but does not guarantee reproducible execution.
-
Securing GitHub Actions in the Enterprise · Part 2
Every GitHub Action is a Supply Chain Decision
11 min readHow each GitHub Action extends your supply chain through trust, dependencies, and privilege.
-
Building a Personal Cloud · Part 2
When a Homelab Becomes a Personal Cloud
10 min readHow a homelab becomes a personal cloud when its services become capabilities you depend on.
-
The only career blueprint worth considering
14 min readHow engineers build career resilience through capability, relationships, visibility, and optionality.
-
Find the Bottleneck
9 min readHow finding and removing constraints helps personal systems turn effort into meaningful impact.
-
The System You Work Inside
13 min readTransforming my working environment from a collection of tools into a personal platform.
-
Securing GitHub Actions in the Enterprise · Part 1
Securing GitHub Actions Is a Hard Problem
10 min readWhy securing GitHub Actions demands control of code, events, identities, and execution.
-
Engineering for outsized impact with small teams
12 min readHow small platform teams use constraints, automation, and self-service to create outsized impact.
-
Building a Personal Cloud · Part 1
I Never Meant to Build a Personal Cloud
8 min readHow a home AI lab became a personal platform for experimentation, learning, and self-hosting.
-
The runner was easy. The platform was the real engineering
13 min readWhy turning GitHub Actions runners into an organisational capability is a platform problem.
-
How judgement, not technical skill, defines a senior engineer
14 min readWhy technical skill is only the foundation of seniority, while sound judgement earns trust.
-
Designing a personal learning platform
5 min readHow a platform approach to learning makes every future capability easier to acquire.