I can't code. I should say that upfront because it matters for what comes next. For the past year or so I've been obsessed with vibecoding. Sitting with Claude Code, describing what I want in plain E...

Quality in software delivery is the route to less suffering. This post introduces my approach and explores why quality matters.

There's a common refrain in AI circles: open-source LLMs can't compete, small models are garbage, and frontier providers like Anthropic or OpenAI will always outperform everyone else. That's increasi...

In 2026, AI will move from pilots to accountable production at scale, where cost, trust, realistic views on agents and industry-specific implementations decide who delivers real value

Verifiable Credentials are revolutionising digital identity verification by providing secure, verifiable claims usable across multiple sites. Learn why VCs are essential, how they differ from passkeys...

As a small, new company, and with founders who love to try new things, we started with no fixed approach for many of our core business processes. We all have a genuine desire to create a company that ...

Using deterministic verification scripts to steer AI code-assist tools toward more maintainable code.

Moja is a people-focused technology company on a mission to make group-based financial collaboration accessible and easy for everyone, everywhere. Using stablecoin technologies, Moja's mobile and web ...

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In this post, a software engineer writes about their thoughts on EQ. They use an intelligent comparison of IQ and EQ to foster a better understanding.

NPM Trusted Publishing replaces risky long-lived tokens with secure OIDC authentication. Learn how this new feature eliminates token exfiltration attacks and makes publishing packages safer with zero ...

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Digital transformation has become the corporate world's most expensive failure. Despite investing over $100 billion between 2016 and 2018 alone, a staggering 70-80% of transformation initiatives crash...

This post describes implementing GraphQL subscriptions over WebSockets using the GraphQL WS package by The Guild.

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Two technologies are reshaping digital identity: passkeys and verifiable credentials. Separately, they solve different problems. Together, they could eliminate passwords while giving users control ove...

Anonymous participation in a series of client workshops brought much better engagement than I expected. I explain why I think it might have happened.

Have you ever joined a project midway and wondered, "Why on earth are we using this technology when there are better options available?" You're not alone. At MakerX, we believe that transparent decis...