Articles
Writing on cloud infrastructure, digital sovereignty and open systems.
- The Last Voice of Europe: When BBC Long Wave Fell Silent On 27 June 2026 the BBC switched off Radio 4 Long Wave on 198 kHz, and almost nobody noticed. The story of one transmitter — and why Europe keeps retiring the robust infrastructure it built to survive war, blackout and the failure of everything else.
- When “oops” becomes part of the code in production systems Common developer mistakes — from expired SSL certificates to untested backups — and how they quietly become part of production systems.
- Margaret Hamilton and modern software reliability Modern software engineering was shaped by failure handling and system design during Apollo.
- When software failures become catastrophic Small software errors can escalate into catastrophic failures under real-world conditions.