Archive - Why Now

Restate & Durable Execution

Life could do with a little more async/await.

Feb 6 •

October 2023

"An elephant on clay feet"

Oct 26, 2023 •

September 2023

Post-Transformers - Hyena Hierarchy

Breaking the Quadratic Barrier

Sep 4, 2023 •

June 2023

UX/UI designers and frontend engineers have been converging for some time. I’m undecided if “design engineer” is apt, but if we look at my friend

Jun 14, 2023 •

Efficient and portable as C, without the "footguns"

Jun 12, 2023 •

April 2023

*Bonus* Remaking Pokemon Yellow in Godot

Alex used Godot, it was super effective.

Apr 12, 2023 •

Secure Enclaves

Dance like no one is watching, encrypt like everyone is

Apr 3, 2023 •

February 2023

Bringing back "Serious Software"

Feb 6, 2023 •

November 2022

Something Different #2

Hello! Given that ..nothing at all.. has happened over the past week or two I said now would be an objectively rational time to share another update (a…

Nov 17, 2022 •

Containers without containers

Nov 4, 2022 •

October 2022

Something different

Hello! As I sit in the Irish countryside (home for a couple of weeks) devoid of anything better to do on a Sunday afternoon I said I would try something…

Oct 9, 2022 •

September 2022

"node_modules, the heaviest object in the universe"

Sep 22, 2022 •

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