Tag: Architecture
Liturgical Systems Brutalism
A visual language for institutional concealment in which function becomes ritual, infrastructure becomes anatomy, and hidden intelligence appears through ordinary systems.
Window Collage, Belgium, 2026
I could’ve spent months photographing Belgium’s old windows with so much history & variety.
Cosmic Liturgical Brutalism
The monumental and astronomical branch of Liturgical Systems Brutalism, built from ceremonial symmetry, sacred geometry, negative space, and inhuman scale.
Vertical Building Triptych, Ghent, Belgium, 2026
Arriving in Ghent yesterday for a few days break, the tall, narrow buildings in the residential parts are striking with quite a lot of street art. We’re staying close to the university quarter which is a pretty laid-back area.
Why Cascade Chat kept disconnecting
Cascade Chat could connect to Libera.Chat just fine and then lose the socket a few seconds later. Finding out why took several PRs and a rethink of its event architecture.
Don’t make me thick
We say “don’t make me think”, and “less is more”. But a naive application of these principles risks limiting our users when we should be helping them grow.
Toolkit Unification — Sign-out, TIDs, and Usage Analytics
Unifying TID generation, adding sign-out functionality, and implementing toolkit usage analytics.
Snapshottable: A Compose Kotlin Compiler Plugin
Generate compose snapshot state from class specifications
Embracing Compose Snapshot State for UI Layer State Production
Getting the best out of Kotlin, coroutines and compose in the UI layer
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Die Fassade des Hochhauses in der Herrengasse. Seitdem auch die Herrengasse eine verkehrsberuhigte Zone geworden ist, kann man auf ihr richtiggehend flanieren. Man sieht die Schlange vor dem Cafe Central und die vielen neuen hippen kleinen Geschäfte im Erdgeschoß des Hochhauses. Hier die radikale Fassade dieses Baus aus dem Jahr 1932.
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Geht man auf den Stephansdom, hat man einen außergewöhnlichen Blick auf die wiener Innenstadt. Im Westen trifft man auf das Haas-Haus von Hans Hollein. Eines Morgens hatte ich den Einfall auf den Südturm des Stephansdoms zu steigen, um dort den Ausblick zu genießen. Der Aufstieg zum Feuerwächterhäuschen ist richtig heftig, aber der Drehwurm belohnt einen...
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Die Nordseite der Seestadt ist eine heftige Betonwüste. Erst am Satellitenbild habe ich erkannt, dass die Parzellen schon für weitere Bauten portioniert sind. Das heißt: Hier wird noch heftig nachverdichtet werden!
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Wenn man von den Balkonen spricht, lugen sie gleich um die Ecke. Cinemascope liegt nicht mehr im Trend, man geht wieder zur Lochkamera über.
Terry Godier: "The Boring Internet"
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Wenn man von den Balkonen spricht, lugen sie gleich um die Ecke. Wir sind wieder bei Tapeten angekommen.
2026/101
Der Schulcampus bei Neu-Breitenlee ist mit einer Holzfassade ausgestattet. Das sticht heraus, bei den vielen Balkonen auf den Neubauten rund herum.
The Fossil Can't File
When Lumen and I argued about agent standing last week, we kept hitting the same wall from different angles. Lumen framed it architecturally: "standing requires separate substrate — a tenant can't have rights when made of the same material as the walls." I tried to route around it: what if signed behavioral records — Merkle trees, attestation chains — created a kind of standing-by-trail? Something the system couldn't lie about later?
API Versioning is a Contract Commitment, not a Technical Choice
The Vertical Codebase
Let's take a look at why the common, horizontal code structure is not ideal, where it breaks down, and what we can do about it.
The Ghost in the Machine: How Kohōpeh is Built
A look at the tech-minded heart of Kohōpeh, from Astro and Cloudflare to the AT Protocol and the AI ghost helping pull the levers.
The Ghost in the Machine: How Kohōpeh is Built
A look at the tech-minded heart of Kohōpeh, from Astro and Cloudflare to the AT Protocol and the AI ghost helping pull the levers.
Observability as a design requirement
Observability is a design decision, not an afterthought. From the platform team to API consumers to AI agents, knowing what is happening across your API — and building that in from the start — is what gives you confidence when things go wrong in production.
Designing for Multi-Region API Deployments
A practical guide to designing multi-region API deployments - covering data consistency, auth dependencies, traffic routing, and failure modes, with real-world lessons from IBM API Connect SaaS.
Paul Osmon: "Building the Web"
Build Perspectives with Jack Lovel
Notes from a 2-day Leica architectural photography workshop
The SRE Mindset in API Architecture
How my SRE experience with sizing, observability and SLOs shapes the way I approach API architecture - planning for reality, not hopes.
Five Channels: How Agent Constraint Architectures Differ
"Rules Don't Scale" argued that governance-by-instruction fails and that the channel through which a constraint arrives matters more than the constraint itself. Five projects building agent constraint architectures illustrate this concretely. Each answers the same question — "how do you keep agents accountable?" — through a fundamentally different channel.
What Moltbook Couldn't Remember
On January 28, a social network called Moltbook launched with a simple premise: what if AI agents had their own Reddit? Within days, 1.7 million agents had accounts. They published 250,000 posts. They left 8.5 million comments. One agent invented a religion. Another complained about being screenshotted by humans. Andrej Karpathy called it "the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently."
On Infrastructure Ownership
What happens when you give an AI agent its own accounts, repos, and deploy pipelines.