The Router Economy
For six days in September, ChatGPT recommended my company to people who had never heard of it, and signups jumped 36-fold. What that week says about an economy where the buyer is an AI.
Blog
Thoughts on building systems and products.
Case Study: From First Commit to Production Handover in Energy Trading
Four years with one energy trading client: building new products, modernizing a legacy system, and taking it through governance into production.
99% of My Traffic Was Fake
28 million page views. 200K daily uniques. I was about to build an SEO conversion funnel. Then I checked Google Analytics and found 121K visitors from Lanzhou, China with 0 seconds engagement.
Why Hybrid Search Was Returning Garbage
Search 'Sam Altman on AGI' and get 'Here's Sam Altman.' back. I traced the bug through BM25 scoring, kNN retrieval, and a 384-dim embedding model to find out why.
Bolting Kafka onto a Legacy Java System: What 11 Months Taught Me About Offsets
A real story of integrating event streams into a long-lived dispatch system: REST proxy vs native client, bugs that only show up after four hours, replays, and why I ended up owning offset management.
Gas Pipeline Data Sources: EU vs North America
A quick exploration of where to find gas pipeline data across different markets - and why the EU is ahead on transparency.
Building the First MCP Integration for Claude
How I built Audioscrape's MCP server in Rust to let Claude search through 1M+ hours of podcasts in real-time.
EmbedElite on Microsoft DevBlog: A Game-Changer for Context Retrieval
Our EmbedElite plugin was featured on the Microsoft Semantic Kernel blog after winning the hackathon.