these things i do.

by day, software engineering; by night, ukulele. these are the notes that didn’t fit on a hard drive.

currently Introducing NAOMI, a maturity model for AI Native engineering Evolving the classic Agile Maturity Model for an AI Native organisation. NAOMI, the Native AI Operational Maturity Index, helps your team identify and control what holds when nobody is watching. When production is cheap, the scarce resource is assurance. This is the thinking behind the pillars and the levels, and a first draft of the cells. 30 August 2026 17 min read tech

recent things

2026

Aug 3017m Introducing NAOMI, a maturity model for AI Native engineering tech
Aug 1013m Permission granted. Dependency inverted. tech
Jul 243m Stop Forgetting How to Play Gloomhaven misc
Jun 1110m Lose the constructs. Keep your composure. tech
May 239m Your infrastructure isn't an app. So why is your CDK? tech
Mar 286m Tidy your tests with ts-fake 1.0.0 tech

2025

Sep 134m This Is the Life (uke arrangement) music
Aug 211m In Hell I'll Be in Good Company (uke arrangement) music
Jul 186m Don't Let Me Down (uke arrangement) music

2018

Apr 71m Don't Worry Be Happy (uke arrangement) music

2017

Jun 131m The Boys Are Back In Town (uke arrangement) music

2015

Jan 21m Citrix NetScaler VPX + Safari compatibility tech

2014

Apr 151m Recording deployments in New Relic with PowerShell's Invoke-WebRequest tech

2013

Dec 131m iDoneThis + AlfredApp = daily standup nirvana tech

2012

Sep 172m .NET Development with source code on a network share tech
Aug 101m GBBF 2012, Day 3 misc
Aug 71m GBBF 2012, Day 1 misc
May 101m I'm sure this wasn't Ayende's intention... tech
Apr 165m Backing up all databases in Microsoft SQL Server tech
Mar 301m Beware Dell PowerConnect firmware upgrade tech
Mar 91m So nuget.org is down... tech

2011

Dec 281m 'sudo' for PowerShell tech
Jun 101m Gmail, custom domain name & "on behalf of..." tech
Jun 31m VMware ESXi, Active Directory, and domain trusts tech
Jun 23m Domain Admin rights on a cross-forest domain trust tech
May 251m More ReSharper and MSpec - playing nice tech
May 231m ReSharper, StyleCop and MSpec playing nice tech
May 201m Could not load type 'Machine.Specifications.Utility.Naming' tech
May 201m A guide to object equality in .NET (part 4) tech
May 191m Microsoft Key Management Service tech
May 181m Tumblr Tag Clouds misc
May 121m iSCSI, VMware recommended reading tech
May 111m Editing /etc/hosts in Mac OS X tech
May 107m Recommended iSCSI configuration for VMware ESXi tech
May 94m A guide to value object equality in .NET (part 2) tech
May 810m A guide to value object equality in .NET (part 3) tech
May 61m Usage of static members tech
May 61m Code Syntax Highlighting in Tumblr misc
May 53m A guide to value object equality in .NET (Part 1) tech
May 41m Windows 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 won't install! tech
May 24m TeamCity: deploy to an Active Directory group tech
May 11m Using 7zip from PowerShell tech

2010

Nov 151m iPhone 4 and Sky wireless tech
Sep 51m Premature Optimisation - The root of all evil... tech
Aug 271m Are you a ferengi programmer or want to become one? tech
Jun 291m Mac OS, camera and auto-launching application tech
Jun 233m Beer Ambassadors Half-Time Score misc
Jun 211m The Rogue Nation misc
Jun 203m Thank you for your wine, California misc
Jun 145m Rocky Mountain High misc
Jun 131m San Diego misc
Jun 81m The Beer Garden of Eden misc
Jun 72m Welcome to my hangover... misc
Jun 51m Beer Ambassadors Trip to the United States misc

2009

Mar 82m Le Vacherin, Chiswick. Restaurant Review - March 2009 misc

threads

composureCDK: a declarative CDK
Value-object equality, in .NET
iSCSI on VMware ESXi
1. 1 Recommended iSCSI configuration for VMware ESXi
2. 2 iSCSI, VMware recommended reading
Beer Ambassadors USA