Software consulting and programming built to endure.

I've been writing code since 1998, working at the intersection of technology, design, and human experience.

Web

Websites and web applications.

I build public sites, customer portals, and web applications for performance, security, maintainability, and long-term discoverability.

Mobile

Mobile applications.

I create native and cross-platform experiences around dependable integrations, practical workflows, and simple interaction.

Systems

Software and database applications.

I develop business software, database applications, analytics, reporting, and operational tools around usable workflows.

AI

AI and intelligent systems.

I apply AI, automation, machine learning, language models, analytics, and decision support with clarity and control.

Connected

IoT and connected systems.

I integrate sensor, telemetry, monitoring, and connected-device systems with secure, reliable cloud environments and protected data flows.

Advisory

Technology consulting.

I provide independent guidance on architecture, cloud and IoT security, privacy, AI strategy, infrastructure, modernization, and technical choices.

Designed in California (linked article)

I have started listening to Designed in California on Relay, and it is excellent: hosts and guests I enjoy and trust, telling Apple’s story well. Even after many books, including David Pogue’s Apple: The First 50 Years, I still learn something new.

Meta AI Glasses (linked article)

Glasses built to discreetly record the people around you are a privacy problem, not a feature. They have also changed how I see Ray-Ban, the brand lending its name to them. I will not recommend these glasses, nor the companies behind them.

Apple Unveils iPhone Duo (linked article)

Apple’s first foldable iPhone: 5.4 inches closed, 7.6 inches open. For iOS developers, the comfortable world of portrait and landscape ends here. Apps now have to handle folded, unfolded, and every transition in between, gracefully.

Latest writing

Articles

A Friday Morning, AI, and a Room Full of Future Entrepreneurs

A Friday Morning, AI, and a Room Full of Future Entrepreneurs

This Friday morning I had the opportunity to spend time with final-year business students at UBB and discuss AI, entrepreneurship, Internet of Behaviors, prompt engineering and the growing role of judgment in an AI-assisted world. Somewhere between a one-shot coffee shop demo, a sarcastic AI personality experiment and discussions about the future of work, a larger lesson emerged: AI is not the business. It may become the advantage.

Your Website Is Your Digital Headquarters

Your Website Is Your Digital Headquarters

Social media platforms may attract attention, but they are not the center of a company’s digital presence. A website remains the only place where a business fully controls its content, structure, and long-term communication. It is the digital headquarters of the organization.

What I Learned After Using AI Every Day for Two Years

What I Learned After Using AI Every Day for Two Years

After using AI daily for two years across software, writing, and operations, a few patterns became clear. AI is not magic, not a replacement, and not optional. It is something else entirely-and understanding that changes how you work.

Artificial Intelligence in the Age of GPT-5: What It Is, Where It Came From, and Why It Matters

Artificial Intelligence in the Age of GPT-5: What It Is, Where It Came From, and Why It Matters

Artificial Intelligence has moved from science fiction to everyday reality - powering our phones, workplaces, and even the latest breakthroughs like GPT-5. In this first article of our AI series, we explain what AI really is, where it began, how it works, and the different types of models available today. From Large Language Models to vision and speech AI, discover how these technologies can be used in your personal life or business, and why understanding them is the key to using AI with confidence.

Trust, Transparency, and Why Perplexity’s Crawling Practices Matter

Trust, Transparency, and Why Perplexity’s Crawling Practices Matter

As AI bots flood the web, trust and transparency matter more than ever. At Burzcast, we stand with Cloudflare in defending publisher rights and web integrity. Perplexity’s stealth crawling and disregard for robots.txt show a troubling lack of respect, not just for websites, but for the open internet itself. If OpenAI can follow the rules, why can’t Perplexity?

Recent writing

Essays

PHILOSOPHY

Between Intelligence and Consciousness

As artificial intelligence grows increasingly capable, a familiar assumption follows close behind: that intelligence inevitably becomes consciousness. But are we confusing performance with experience? Drawing from neuroscientist Anil Seth’s arguments, current research, philosophy, and the economic incentives shaping modern AI narratives, this essay explores a quieter position - one rooted not in technological optimism or fear, but in intellectual restraint.

ESSAY

On Financial Literacy as Discipline

Financial literacy is not a pursuit of wealth but a discipline of clarity. These notes consider how understanding value, time, and risk enables deliberate decision-making over reaction.

ESSAY

On Quiet Intelligence

Artificial intelligence has become part of the underlying structure of modern work. Used with restraint, it sharpens judgment, shortens distance, and leaves space for human intent.

ESSAY

On Awareness in the Presence of Intelligent Systems

As intelligent systems become more present, awareness becomes a prerequisite rather than a virtue. These notes consider discernment, perception, and responsibility in environments shaped by synthetic output.