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Explore the delirious rantings of Frederick Vanbrabant. A blog focused on the intersection of Enterprise Architecture, product, and business strategy.

Why senior developers talk in terms of complexity while the rest of the business is worried about uncertainty — and what to do about it now that AI is in the...

I vibe-coded a GPU-aware Kubernetes TUI for 7 months, archived it, and started over. Here's what AI gets wrong when projects grow complex.

In reply to an email asking about learning software design skills as a researcher physicist:

Optimizing developer experience often has a bigger long-term impact than optimizing rendering benchmarks or bundle size. Faster engineers build better software.

A note from a developer who keeps watching good design die in boardrooms.

A bootcamp can teach you the syntax of a language in six weeks. The part that takes a decade is everything else: where the seams go, where the data flows, which...

Remaining vigilant about cognitive debt and atrophy.

Guidelines for programming when code is cheap.

The other month I finally ran an experiment we had been postponing for over a year at .txt.

['Programmer', 'Computer nerd', 'Unix enthusiast'];

Un espace pour les développeurs qui veulent parler de leur métier, de leurs doutes, de leurs joies - sans filtre et sans pression.

In my last blog post about OpenClaw I wrote about my growing setup of some basic day-to-day automation tasks.

Criticism can prevent mistakes. It can never create value. Only ideas can do that. The two are not equal contributions, and most meetings get this backwards.

Splitting the Web par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

Posts about SmolWeb, Gemini protocol and LowTech

"People who don't use AI will be left behind", they say. I can't emphasize enough how much I hate it when I hear/read shit like that because I'm pretty sur...

I used to change how I managed my todo list all the time and never had a system that was able to stand the test of time.

A practical Claude Code guide for product, business, and operations folks. Not about prompt engineering, more about how to actually use it: how to write CLAU...