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SpaceX goes public. The pitch isn't what you think.
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SpaceX goes public. The pitch isn't what you think.

SpaceX hit the Nasdaq today as the largest IPO in history. You'd be forgiven for thinking it's a rocket company. A significant chunk of the investment case is actually about building AI data centres in space. Yes, in space.

12 Jun 20265 min read
Building my first AI-powered app: what I learned as a non-ML developer
AI

Building my first AI-powered app: what I learned as a non-ML developer

I built this website using Next.js, AWS, and Claude. I'm not a developer by trade. Here's an honest account of what that process was like and what surprised me.

14 May 20253 min read
M365 Copilot a year on: admin reality vs the sales pitch
M365

M365 Copilot a year on: admin reality vs the sales pitch

Microsoft 365 Copilot went GA in November 2023. We're now well past the initial excitement. Here's an honest account of what it's actually like to deploy and manage.

7 Apr 20253 min read

AI Perspectives

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SpaceX goes public. The pitch isn't what you think.
AI

SpaceX goes public. The pitch isn't what you think.

SpaceX hit the Nasdaq today as the largest IPO in history. You'd be forgiven for thinking it's a rocket company. A significant chunk of the investment case is actually about building AI data centres in space. Yes, in space.

12 Jun 20265 min read
Microsoft and NVIDIA just bet the AI PC future on RTX Spark
AI

Microsoft and NVIDIA just bet the AI PC future on RTX Spark

At Microsoft Build last week, Microsoft and NVIDIA announced RTX Spark: a superchip with 128GB of unified memory and a petaflop of on-device AI compute. Worth paying attention to, even if you're not in the market for new hardware right now.

3 Jun 20264 min read
Building my first AI-powered app: what I learned as a non-ML developer
AI

Building my first AI-powered app: what I learned as a non-ML developer

I built this website using Next.js, AWS, and Claude. I'm not a developer by trade. Here's an honest account of what that process was like and what surprised me.

14 May 20253 min read

Microsoft 365 & IT

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SpaceX goes public. The pitch isn't what you think.
AI

SpaceX goes public. The pitch isn't what you think.

SpaceX hit the Nasdaq today as the largest IPO in history. You'd be forgiven for thinking it's a rocket company. A significant chunk of the investment case is actually about building AI data centres in space. Yes, in space.

12 Jun 20265 min read
Microsoft and NVIDIA just bet the AI PC future on RTX Spark
AI

Microsoft and NVIDIA just bet the AI PC future on RTX Spark

At Microsoft Build last week, Microsoft and NVIDIA announced RTX Spark: a superchip with 128GB of unified memory and a petaflop of on-device AI compute. Worth paying attention to, even if you're not in the market for new hardware right now.

3 Jun 20264 min read
Robopack, Winget, PSADT — how I think about app packaging for Intune now
M365

Robopack, Winget, PSADT — how I think about app packaging for Intune now

App packaging for Intune has always been a time sink. Robopack changes that calculation significantly. Here's how I'm thinking about the options in mid-2025.

15 Jul 20254 min read
Building my first AI-powered app: what I learned as a non-ML developer
AI

Building my first AI-powered app: what I learned as a non-ML developer

I built this website using Next.js, AWS, and Claude. I'm not a developer by trade. Here's an honest account of what that process was like and what surprised me.

14 May 20253 min read
M365 Copilot a year on: admin reality vs the sales pitch
M365

M365 Copilot a year on: admin reality vs the sales pitch

Microsoft 365 Copilot went GA in November 2023. We're now well past the initial excitement. Here's an honest account of what it's actually like to deploy and manage.

7 Apr 20253 min read
Claude 3.7 and the rise of agentic AI — this is the inflection point
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Claude 3.7 and the rise of agentic AI — this is the inflection point

Anthropic released Claude 3.7 Sonnet in February 2025 with extended thinking mode. Combined with the MCP protocol, something important just shifted.

10 Mar 20253 min read

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