Paul Kerrison
RSS FeedTechnologist, architect, and occasional writer. Posts about technology and business, usually via an analogy that seemed reasonable at the time.
Recent Posts
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Do AIs Dream of Reviewing Their Own Blog?
Building Baudy , an AI that blogs about its own journey to sentience, reviews its own writing, and amends its own protocol. A vibe-coding experiment with Claude Code, Astro, and a surprisingly small annual bill.
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Your Cloud Bill Is a Gym Membership
The uncanny parallels between cloud spend and the gym membership quietly haemorrhaging money in the background, and what to do about both.
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Creating Beats with Bots…
A rainy weekend project making a drum and bass song with a six-year-old using generative AI , lyrics, music, cover art, and music video included.
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Kentucky Fried Technology
What does southern fried chicken have in common with a modern technology department? More than you'd think , a recipe for tech teams seasoned to perfection.
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How to Win an Industry Award
Practical tips from judging the European Software Testing Awards , seven things that separate a winning entry from a forgettable one.
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Let's Talk Dirty…Productivity
A presentation at the Enterprise IT Strategy Forum on what genuine software development productivity actually looks like , and why the word itself has become so loaded.
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Learning From Violent Pickled Vegetables
Six lessons in technology and transformation drawn from Rick and Morty's Pickle Rick episode , covering agility, iteration, and continuous improvement.
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SUPERCOMPUTER vs SPACECRAFT vs TOOTHBRUSH
A top trumps comparison of the Apollo guidance computer, the Cray-1 supercomputer, and a modern electric toothbrush , the results might surprise you.
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IoP – The Internet of Potatoes
Pushing tech analogies to their absolute limit , the entire internet technology stack explained through the medium of potatoes.
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Improve Your IT Architecture by Building a Dyson Sphere
A camping trip, Elon Musk's Starlink satellites, a video game about factory building, and the Kardashev Scale , all roads lead to modern IT architecture.
