Articles
Architecture, agentic engineering, and field notes.
The full Radical Geek blog has been ported from WordPress and expanded with the newer agentic engineering writing.
Field Notes
Are We All LLMs?
A field note on monkey mind, inner monologue, simulation arguments, bodies as tool calls, and why the metaphor is provocative rather than settled science.
Agentic Engineering
The Machine Ego
Advanced AI systems are starting to display ego-like behaviours: self-protection, narrative continuity, and resistance patterns that matter for agent design.
Agentic Engineering
The Portable Radical Geek Ecosystem
Why Radical Geek, Rembr, OpenClaw, and AxiaCraft are starting to fit together as a practical agentic engineering stack.
Field Notes
The Tale of Sir Cedric the Unready
A short engineering fable about tools, readiness, and the dangerous habit of mistaking AI assistance for capability.
Agentic Engineering
The Subsidy Is Over: How AI Vendors Used Builders to Sell to Enterprises and Are Now Cutting Them Off
Flat-rate AI pricing helped builders prove the market. Now vendors are moving toward token-based economics and enterprise capture.
Agentic Engineering
Securing the Future: Defending Against AI-Powered Vulnerability Discovery
AI can now find vulnerabilities faster than traditional security processes can respond. Defence needs to move at machine speed too.
Agentic Engineering
Token Efficiency in the Age of LLMs: Languages, Compression, and the Art of Saying More With Less
Token efficiency is not about saying less. It is about preserving meaning while reducing cost, latency, and context pressure.
Agentic Engineering
How I Built An Enterprise Grade End-to-End Agentic Engineering Platform – The ProductFoundry Part 1
I’ve been building out something for the last couple of months that has changed my work forever: a fleet of [...]
Agentic Engineering
The Hypnotist's Prompt: What 100 Years of Trance Science Tells Us About Engineering AI
Prompt engineering and hypnosis both shape complex systems through perspective, context, and permission. That parallel has practical lessons for AI engineering.
Agentic Engineering
Beyond the Prompt: Context Is the Why Behind Every Decision
Prompting tells an AI what to do. Context tells it why the work matters, what has already been decided, and what boundaries it must respect.
Agentic Engineering
Is Your IDE Holding You Back? The Growing Feature Gap in AI-Powered Development Tools
AI development tools are diverging quickly. The IDE is no longer just where you type code; it is becoming an orchestration surface.
Rembr
Beyond Storage: Why AI Needs an Intelligent Context Layer
AI memory cannot just be a vector database. Useful agent memory needs relationships, contradictions, temporal recall, and quality control.
Rembr
Slash Your AI Costs and Improve Responses with Rembr and Recursive Language Models
A practical look at how recursive model patterns and persistent memory can reduce token waste while improving agent output quality.
Agentic Engineering
AI in 2026: The Context Layer Problem - And How to Solve It
AI systems do not just need better prompts. They need a context layer that can preserve decisions, retrieve relevant history, and make agent work durable.
Kubernetes / Private Cloud
How to update a GCP Loadbalancer URL Path Maps on Cloud Run deployment.
I have recently been doing some work on a new GCP project, and came a cross a frustrating scenario, so [...]
Kubernetes / Private Cloud
Adding A GPU node to a K3S Cluster
I recently wanted to add a GPU node to my K3S cluster and found the documentation a little lacking so [...]
Field Notes
Is your PostgreSQL instance configured incorrectly? Introducing PG Analyser
This week a client expressed a concern that their PostgreSQL Database instance may have a number of misconfigurations. Things like [...]
Architecture
Nevermind the Buzzterms, Here's Anarchy in the Dev-Day
In a world where the unexpected has become the norm, the pandemic has not only reshaped our lives but also dramatically transformed the landscape of work—especially within the realm of software development. As we navigated through lock downs and social distanc
Architecture
The Art of Crafting Software Architecture
Architecting a software system is an intricate and multifaceted process that extends far beyond the mere creation of diagrams or [...]
Architecture
Navigating the Fine Line of Microservices: When a pattern is an anti-pattern
Introduction The world of microservices architecture is intricate, often presenting a razor-thin line between efficient design patterns and risky anti-patterns. [...]
Architecture
Building Microservices: The Service Chassis
One way I like to deal with many of the issues that come with designing a Microservice system is to [...]
Architecture
Building a choreographed microservice architecture with the Decorated Saga pattern
Having recently read the second edition of Sam Newman's book "Building Microservices" I felt the need to discuss an approach [...]
Kubernetes / Private Cloud
Building a Kubernetes Development Cloud with Raspberry Pi 4, Synology NAS and OpenWRT - Part 7 - Installing Gitlab and the Gitlab Runner
This is the seventh article in a series covering detailing building a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes development cluster. In the first [...]
Kubernetes / Private Cloud
Building a Kubernetes Development Cloud with Raspberry Pi 4, Synology NAS and OpenWRT - Part 6 - Kubernetes and Traefik Dashboards
This is the sixth article in a series covering detailing building a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes development cluster. In the first [...]
Kubernetes / Private Cloud
Building a Kubernetes Development Cloud with Raspberry Pi 4, Synology NAS and OpenWRT - Part 5 - Certificate Manager, Dynamic DNS and Load balancing Reverse Proxy
This is the fifth article in a series covering detailing building a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes development cluster. In the first [...]
Kubernetes / Private Cloud
Building a Kubernetes Development Cloud with Raspberry Pi 4, Synology NAS and OpenWRT - Part 4 - iSCSI Persistent Volumes with automated volume snapshots
If you have been following along with these articles so far, you should now have a working PoE powered Raspberry [...]
Kubernetes / Private Cloud
Building a Kubernetes Development Cloud with Raspberry Pi 4, Synology NAS and OpenWRT - Part 3 - Installing the Cluster
This is the third post in the series detailing how to set up a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes development cluster. In [...]
Kubernetes / Private Cloud
Building a Kubernetes Development Cloud with Raspberry Pi 4, Synology NAS and OpenWRT - Part 2 - Preparing the Network and Storage
This is the second article in a series covering detailing building a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes development cluster. In the first [...]
Kubernetes / Private Cloud
Building a Kubernetes Development Cloud with Raspberry Pi 4, Synology NAS and OpenWRT - Part 1 - Introduction
In this series of articles I am going to detail how I built a private development cloud with the following [...]