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Building software, for the love of it.
Architect, developer, or consultant — whatever the work calls for. My toolkit evolves; right now that's mostly Cloudflare's Developer Platform, which I've written a book about.
## recent_writing see_all →
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aiLimiting AI news would hide what is happening to software
There is an Ask HN thread on the front page today asking whether Hacker News can “please limit the AI news flood”. To be fair to its author,…
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cloudflareCloudflare doesn't have AI psychosis. It has a thesis.
“I am not blaming the innovation. I am blaming the chaos of innovation. Everything feels DISJOINTED.” That’s the author of “Cloudflare’s AI psychosis”, on Hacker News this weekend,…
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aiCloudflare OS is an architecture of distrust
The strangest thing in the Cloudflare OS source code took me a while to understand.
## ~/projects all_142 →
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TypeScriptNode.jsSQLiteSMTPIMAP4rev2DKIM/SPF/DMARC
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cutibrowser — a from-scratch desktop browser for the document web, with zero runtime dependencies 2026TypeScriptNode.js FFImacOS frameworks
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RADAR — an air-traffic-control scope over live ADS-B data 2026Node.jsSQLitevanilla JSHTML CanvasADS-B Exchange
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What's that flight? — the aircraft overhead right now, as a map of your sky 2026TypeScriptCloudflare Workersvanilla JSADS-B Exchange
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world — an infinite, procedurally generated natural world to walk and fly through 2026TypeScriptThree.jsWebGPUViteWeb Workers
## ~/work full_timeline →
- 2023 →CDS UK — Solution Architect · now
- 2021 – 2023HeadClear — Chief Technology Officer (co-founder)
- 2020 – 2021Advanced — Principal Software Engineer
- 2019 – 2020Mitrefinch — Developer → Delivery Team Lead
- 2016 – 2019IFS — Software Engineer → Senior
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137 posts · 142 projects · archive since 2013
— jl