Topic: Engineering

Building a Personal Cloud · Part 1

I Never Meant to Build a Personal Cloud

What began as a home AI lab became a personal platform for experimentation, self-hosting, learning, and building future capabilities.

The runner was easy. The platform was the real engineering

Self-hosting a GitHub Actions runner is easy. Turning runners into a secure, scalable, self-service organisational capability is a platform-engineering problem.

How judgement, not technical skill, defines a senior engineer

Why technical ability is only the foundation of seniority, and sound judgement determines who can be trusted with consequential engineering decisions.

Designing a personal learning platform

What if you approached learning like a platform engineer—building a system that makes every future capability easier to acquire?