The Boring Stack
• #boring-stack#craft#python#sqlite#small-web#jugaad#fractional-cio
SQLite, Markdown files, Python standard library. After a quarter-century in the trade, why the most experienced CIOs are also the hardest to impress.
Writing
The Tax Labyrinth
• #fractional-cio#sme#france#compliance#jugaad#cost-control
Five portals, three login systems, one self-employed citizen. France's tax infrastructure is not buggy. It is obsolete by design. Field notes on the cost.
Prompts Are Dead, Long Live Direction
• #direction#ai#methodology#prompt-engineering#fractional-cio
The prompt engineering era is over. What replaces it isn't a better prompt. It's the room the prompt sits inside.
The Geek Code, Decoded
• #geek-code#identity#usenet#small-web#craft
A 1993 Usenet signature standard, dusted off and read back as identity in 2026.
Fear vs Love at Work
• #fear-vs-love#leadership#neuroscience#fractional-cio#shared-governance
Love and fear cannot share the same room at full intensity. A short note on what that means for leading a company.
The Expert's Paradox
• #experts-paradox#ai#expertise#critique#fractional-cio
If you need to be an expert to verify what the AI says, you don't need the AI. The paradox that quietly defines AI use in 2026.
Nineteen Years Inside a Sociocratic SMB
• #shared-governance#sociocracy#holacracy#fractional-cio#leadership
Five years in, I realised I was the bottleneck of my own company. This is what changed when I got out of the way.
Sovereign by Default
• #sovereignty#fractional-cio#sme#small-web#jugaad
An SMB's first sovereignty question is not where the data is hosted. It is whether the company can still operate on Monday if the vendor disappears on Friday.
The €300 Subscription Tax
• #saas#cost-control#jugaad#fractional-cio#sme
Forty-six recurring charges on one bank statement, fifteen people on the payroll. Cold accounting of an SMB stack, and the 80-line Python script that quietly replaces half of it.
When the Room Empties
• #ai#web#fractional-cio#pipelines#signal-noise#model-collapse
The share of genuine human content on the live web is shrinking faster than most organisations realise. What a CIO actually sees in logs, pipelines, and API traces, and why it matters for everything downstream.
The Slow Feed
• #rss#small-web#manifesto#sovereignty
RSS never died. It just stopped being interesting to anyone trying to monetize your attention. That is precisely the point.
Why I Build on Astro
• #astro#tailwind#small-web#indie-hacker#tech
A field report after a few weeks on Astro v6. What worked, what bit me, why it fits the Small Web.
Algorithmic Slop
• #algorithmic-slop#ai#critique#verification#fractional-cio
Confident, well-formatted, quietly wrong. Five real cases from a fractional-CIO practice, and the discipline that catches them.
Vibe Orchestration
• #vibe-orchestration#ai#methodology#craft#fractional-cio
Most people chat with AI. A few direct it. What changes when you stop being an operator and start conducting.
Author, Not Product
• #small-web#indie-hacker#manifesto#jugaad#sovereignty
I deleted my LinkedIn, MALT and APEC accounts this morning. This site is what I built instead.
Adjacent Possibles
• #adjacent-possibles#methodology#leadership#self-awareness#fractional-cio
How a hexagonal floor tile became a way of choosing what comes next.