Infrastructure
The Substation Network
How IEC 61850 replaces copper trunks with Ethernet — merging units, process buses, zero-recovery-time redundancy, and the virtualisation debate that's splitting the industry into camps.
Infrastructure
Making the Substation Intelligent
Why every grid operator on the planet faces the same problem — sites that outlive their equipment, equipment that outlives the software protecting it, and a three-millisecond deadline that hasn't changed since the 1960s.
technology
Apple at 50: Own the Whole Stack
Apple turns 50 today. The company that nearly died selling clones is now the most valuable on earth. The reason is a single idea it has never abandoned.
Apps
Chatsworth: Five Hundred Years of History, Six Narrative Paths
Interactive knowledge base exploring 500 years of Chatsworth House history through six interwoven narrative paths
technology
Experience First, Architecture After: How AI Inverted My Thirty-Year Development Process
For thirty years I started every feature in Sparx Enterprise Architect. Now I start by describing what a user does. Here's how AI-assisted development inverted my entire SDLC.
Apps
Wood Wide Web: Visualising the Fungal Network That Connects Trees
Interactive 3D visualisation of real mycorrhizal fungal networks using React, Three.js, and actual scientific data
Apps
ClearRound: Learning Computer Vision Through Showjumping Videos
Building a computer vision experiment that detects jumps in equestrian footage—and learning why body shape detection is harder than vertical movement
ai
Building a Local Expert That Actually Knows the Docs
How a frustrating loop of muddled HealthKit code led to a local AI knowledge system, study material generator, and text-to-speech learning tool
Apps
VCF Green Insight: Measuring the Carbon Cost of Going Software-Defined
Quantifying the embodied and operational carbon footprint of VMware Cloud Foundation infrastructure
Apps
From Presentation Slides to Production Metrics: Actually Measuring the Carbon Cost of My Software
I gave a talk about sustainable software with nine takeaways. Then I spent years not following any of them. GreenScope is what happens when you finally put your own slides into practice.