Working on

Building Hermes Agent pipelines for an automated content generation engine with only minimal HITL, and an LLM bias classification engine. Day job: CTO and co-founder at LibertiTec, building privacy infrastructure for organisations with a duty of care to the people whose data they collect.

Reading

The Art of Focus: Find Meaning, Reinvent Yourself and Create Your Ideal Future by Dan Koe. Manufacturing Consent by Herman and Chomsky — the classic analysis of how power shapes the news. Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee — finally. Bleak and beautifully spare.

Listening to

"Zombie" by The Cranberries — the Springbok rugby sing-along song. "We Found Love" by Rihanna — if you've watched Furious, you'll get it. Beatport Top 100 — Today. Sprinting Gazelle: Palestinian Songs from the Motherland and the Diaspora by Reem Kelani — the British-Palestinian singer and researcher's 2006 debut, traditional songs and settings of poetry, and a thoughtful way into the repertoire.

Where

Liverpool — back from a sunny winter in Umhlanga Rocks. Planning a Lisbon trip late Autumn for a consulting gig. And ... maybe Cape Town for BSides early December.

On my mind

Bored of Omarchy already — think I've found the orchestrator to rule them all ... Herdr oh my Herdr. Finally getting to use my DGX Spark with Deepseek 4 Flash and Qwen-3.8-27B.