Translating a page is solved. Keeping it translated isn't.
Machine translation made the first translation cheap. The hard part is every day after it: knowing what is stale, what is inconsistent, and what nobody approved.
Read the essay →Writing
Thinking in public.
Essays and notes organized around ideas rather than publication dates. Published work sits alongside questions and pieces still in development.
Content systems
& architecture
One Operation, Three Interfaces: A Service Architecture for django CMS
How shared content operations could support editors, REST integrations, and AI tools.
Read on django-cms.org ↗Plugin Architecture Is Editor Experience
How technical component architecture becomes product design.
Read on django-cms.org ↗Make Your Django Application Editable
Adding editorial capabilities without surrendering application architecture.
Read on django-cms.org ↗The CMS Is Not the Application
Where the boundary between application and content system belongs.
Read on django-cms.org ↗Headless Is an Architecture, Not a Product Strategy
Why a delivery pattern cannot answer the product questions on its own.
On the horizonSoftware, reuse
& organizations
Receiving and Parsing XRechnung Invoices in Django
What building the inbound side of django-xrechnung taught me about treating invoices as untrusted input, as evidence, and as data — and why "valid" is the least interesting thing an e-invoice can be.
Read the essay →Open Source Is Dying Again
AI is breaking the reciprocity that kept open source going — through licenses, reputation, and the cost of forking. What remains is the reciprocity that was always worth the most: passing knowledge on.
Read the essay →Stop Rebuilding the Same Django App for Every Client
How reusable Django applications can turn agency project work into accumulating product knowledge.
Read the essay →Why You Should Join the Djangonaut Space Program as a Navigator — A Veteran’s Perspective
On turning experience into leverage: mentoring new contributors, transferring context, and strengthening the community that sustains open source.
Read on medium.com ↗Why I Still Write Code
Why writing code still matters to me when building automation and systems meant to last.
Read the essay →Automation
& AI
AI Doesn't Replace Engineering. It Moves It Up the Stack.
Every layer we automate makes the layer above it the new bottleneck. AI is another step in an old progression — and it changes the size of the thing an engineer can hold.
Read the essay →What If Brute Force Produces Insight?
AI, mathematical discovery, and what remains when searching for answers becomes cheap.
Read the essay →I Don’t Want an AI Button in My CMS
Why useful automation belongs in workflows and capabilities, not novelty controls.
On the horizonInvesting
& decision systems
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