8 May 2026
Go Isn't Losing. You're Watching the Wrong Race.
A mature rebuttal to performance benchmark culture, and a defence of Go as the most complete choice for modern production systems engineering.
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7 May 2026
net/http Is All You Need
JetBrains published a guide to Go web frameworks last week. It's fair, as these things go. But it buries the lead: the Go team quietly made most framework arguments obsolete over two years ago, and almost nobody noticed.
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5 May 2026
Go Isn't Boring. It's Disciplined.
Go's constraints are deliberate design decisions made in full knowledge of what they cost — and a clear view of what they buy. That's not timidity. That's engineering.
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2 May 2026
Six Architecture Patterns That Actually Matter
Six software architecture patterns — Layered, Event-Driven, Microkernel, Microservices, Monolithic, and Modular Monolith. What each one actually costs, what it actually buys you, and the specific conditions under which it earns its place. No conference-slide optimism. No vendor positioning. Just trade-offs.
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1 May 2026
What Happened on March 31, 2026 Should Scare Every Engineering Team
Three attack streams hit developers in a single three-hour window on March 31, 2026 — the Claude Code source leak, the Axios npm supply chain compromise, and the Vidar/GhostSocks campaign. A retrospective on what the pattern reveals — and what every engineering team should learn from it.
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30 April 2026
Four Concepts That Separate Systems Thinkers From Syntax Chasers
Back pressure, thundering herds, temporal coupling, and accidental complexity — the failure modes that bankrupted Knight Capital, turned Cloudflare dark, and forced GitLab to livestream their own disaster recovery to five thousand strangers on YouTube.
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28 April 2026
Man Blames Saw for Bad Carpentry
Another week, another AI disaster story. Another team with prod access, no review gate, and no tested backups discovering that consequence is, in fact, real. The AI was there. So was gravity when you jumped off the roof.
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24 April 2026
The Force Isn't With The Majority
Enterprise promised its engineers the world. It gave them soma instead. Now tomorrow has arrived and the bench is thinner than anyone wants to admit.
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23 April 2026
Drop and Give Me Twenty CVEs
The cybersecurity industry has conscripted the military establishment as its sales force. The result is fear dressed as doctrine, complexity sold as cure, and exhibition floors full of people who couldn't heat a tin of beans — but will happily invoice you for threat intelligence.
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20 April 2026
The T-Rex and the Asteroid
The AI era doesn't need more process, more frameworks, or more wellness programmes. It needs smaller teams of people who genuinely care — and the honesty to stop pretending anything else works.
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17 April 2026
The Amplifier Effect
AI doesn't level the playing field. It turns up the volume on everything already in play — the good decisions and the bad ones. If the engineering foundations aren't right, you're about to find out at scale.
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16 April 2026
The Convergence
Three unrelated regulatory and economic pressures are arriving at the same moment — and together they make the open model consortium not a possibility, but an inevitability.
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14 April 2026
SSH Beyond the Basics: Configuration, Command Restriction, and Advanced Features
SSH is ubiquitous, yet most of us barely scratch its surface. Client configuration, command restriction, certificate-based authentication, tunnelling, multiplexing, and the escape sequences that save your session.
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13 April 2026
The Ledger — Why Digital ID Is a Bad Deal on the Numbers
The government claims £10 billion in growth. It refused to publish what the scheme will cost. We are engineers. We have read the numbers. This is why we oppose it.
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12 April 2026
The Street — We Have Been Here Before
The miners and the gay community found common cause. The farmers, the doctors, the bereaved — they all organise on the open internet. This is not a tech issue. It is a freedom issue.
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11 April 2026
The Lock — Why Digital ID Is the Real Safety Risk
Digital ID is itself the safety risk. Why it won't stop criminal activity, the sovereignty problem with US hyperscaler infrastructure, and the child protection argument examined.
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10 April 2026
The Commons — What the Open Web Actually Did
What the open internet actually gave us. The man who died defending it. And what we lose if anonymous access ends. Part 2 of The Web Was a Gift.
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9 April 2026
The Gift — and the People Who Enclosed It
The internet was built by idealists who gave it away for nothing. Then the enclosers arrived — and now they want to make sure you can never leave. Part 1 of our series on Digital ID and the open web.
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8 April 2026
What Grove, Collins, and Stack Got Right About the 3-Person Company They Never Imagined
The best management thinkers of the last four decades accidentally wrote the playbook for the AI-era small company. But only if you strip away the corporate scaffolding.
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7 April 2026
The Moat Is Gone
Open source proved the point. The hype merchants poisoned the adoption curve. The profit surface moved to hardware and vertical applications. Here's where the value actually lands.
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3 April 2026
The Remote Work Lie, Part II: The Study That Proves It
LSE and Birmingham surveyed 800 companies. The majority of organisations struggling with remote work aren't struggling with remote work — they're struggling with management.
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2 April 2026
The Billion-Dollar Security Illusion
We've bought every tool on the market. We're still losing.
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2 April 2026
The Invisible Blitz
No bombs. No sirens. No soldiers crossing a border. Just a nation quietly brought to its knees.
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27 March 2026
Stop Adding Tools. Start Doing Engineering.
The most dangerous thing in your codebase is not a vulnerable dependency. It is the belief that adding another tool will make you secure.
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25 March 2026
The Elephant Is Still in the Room
We dismissed PHP years ago. Then we needed a front end for our build server and discovered the language we'd written off had quietly become something worth paying attention to.
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23 March 2026
The CLI as Trust Boundary: How UNIX Philosophy Secures Agentic AI
AI agents need capabilities to be useful, but every capability is a vector for harm. The UNIX philosophy — small tools, clear interfaces, explicit data flow — offers a fifty-year-old answer to this modern problem.
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20 March 2026
jq: The Command Line JSON Processor You Can't Ignore
JSON has won. Whether you're querying cloud infrastructure, debugging APIs, or parsing application logs, jq is the lightweight, flexible command-line processor that transforms how you work with structured data.
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17 March 2026
The Enclosure of the Internet: Why We're All Fighting Aaron Swartz's Battle Now
The same forces that enclosed common land centuries ago are now enclosing the internet. From biometric identity gates to VPN bans, the surveillance infrastructure being built has nothing to do with protecting children and everything to do with control.
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12 March 2026
Anarchy in the UI
The era of needless frontend tooling is ending. The native web platform has won. AI is about to finish the job.
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19 February 2026
Why Regulated Enterprises Are Bringing AI In-House
The compliance case for on-premise AI is becoming impossible to ignore. Here's why the economics and capabilities have finally aligned.
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16 February 2026
What a Dev Needs to Know of Systemd
If you've deployed an application to a Linux server in the past decade, you've almost certainly encountered systemd. Yet for many developers, it remains a mysterious black box. This post gives you a practical understanding of systemd: what it is, why it exists, and how to use it effectively.
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13 February 2026
The Remote Work Lie: Who Really Wants You Back in the Office
The return-to-office narrative is driven by commercial real estate interests and executives who confuse control with leadership. The evidence tells a different story: remote work delivers equal or superior productivity, better retention, and significant environmental benefits.
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12 February 2026
Go 1.26: What's New and Why It Matters
Go 1.26 is the largest release the Go team has ever shipped. The Green Tea GC, faster cgo, new(expr) syntax, and an experimental runtime/secret package for forward secrecy make this release worth upgrading to immediately.
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11 February 2026
Profiling FastAPI with Py-Spy: Finding the Bottleneck That's Costing You Seconds
FastAPI is fast—until it isn't. When your 50ms endpoint suddenly takes 4 seconds, py-spy helps you find exactly where the time goes without the overhead and async confusion of traditional profilers.
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9 February 2026
Slaying the Hydra: Why PM, PjM, and Engineer Was Always a Bureaucracy Engine — And AI Finally Kills It
The traditional split between product managers, project managers, and engineers existed for a reason. But AI is compressing the work so dramatically that the old role boundaries are collapsing. The product-minded engineer is the only role that survives intact.
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4 February 2026
Database Access in Python: A Practical Guide
Working with databases in Python offers several approaches, each with distinct trade-offs. This guide covers the main options—raw SQL, query builders, and ORMs—with practical advice on when to reach for each.
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31 January 2026
The Kill Switch is Real: Digital Sovereignty and the Skills Crisis Europe Can't Ignore
When Microsoft cut off the ICC prosecutor's email, it proved what sovereignty advocates had warned about for years. Now Europe is scrambling to respond—but does it have the skills to go it alone?
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31 January 2026
Productionising FastAPI Applications with Podman
FastAPI has become a popular choice for building Python APIs. Getting an application running locally is one thing; deploying it reliably to production is another matter entirely.
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29 January 2026
Sovereignty Starts at the Terminal
The personal computer revolution changed who got to participate in shaping the future. Today, as AI reshapes computing, the terminal remains our tool for maintaining sovereignty.
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26 January 2026
Return of View Source
Modern browsers have matured enough to handle web development without heavy framework abstractions. See how we migrated from Svelte to VanillaJS, reducing dependencies by 94% and node_modules size by 99.7%.
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23 January 2026
SaaS Isn't Dead Yet: Why Smaller Is About to Get Much Better
GenAI won't kill SaaS - it will democratise it. Why smaller, leaner software businesses are about to thrive.
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22 January 2026
Containerisation Done Right
Our recent success delivering a containerised SaaS application using Podman rather than Docker.
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25 October 2022
Why Golang
Learn why we at uRadical love the simple elegance of Golang and why it might be the ideal fit for your next project.
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9 March 2022
Hello World
Introducing uRadical, a 3rd generation software agency committed to enabling the future of your organisation.
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