Blogging year in Review 2025

A short reflection on writing, learning, and making deliberate choices in a year where the digital ground kept shifting.

AI Governance

The Hot Potato of Compliance

From GDPR to the EU AI Act, a recurring pattern emerges: European regulation lands in procurement, spreading responsibility, caution, and friction.

Why AI Image Editing Is Often Rebuilding

AI can make true pixel edits, but many image “fixes” work by reconstruction. Typography and colourisation expose where rebuilding replaces editing.

Money

Understanding the layers behind digital payments

A continuation of my exploration of digital payments, looking at how different layers relate and how the Mollie–GoCardless story helps illuminate the broader picture.

Apple Pay, Apple Wallet, Apple Card: How Apple Reshaped How Money Flows

While writing about how money flows, a simple confusion between Apple Pay and Apple Wallet exposes the hidden layers of modern payments and power.

Europe

How Money Moves

A new payment feature raised a bigger question: how does money actually move today? From wallets and card networks to regulation, this is a map of a system most of us never see.

Europe

Europe Fines X: The Moment the DSA Became Real

I’ve been learning the DSA as it unfolded. With Europe’s first fine against X, the law steps out of abstraction and into the real world.

Structuring Knowledge with Obsidian

Discovering how Obsidian, Markdown and a light taxonomy can reveal the hidden structure of five years of writing and open a path toward knowledge engineering.

Money

Qivalis, a New Euro Stablecoin

A new euro stablecoin from Europe’s major banks shifts stablecoins from the margins into the financial system and strengthens the euro’s digital foundations.

Quantum Computing

When the Future Starts Knocking Quietly

What feels like a tech abstraction today may end up rewriting our notions of trust, identity and privacy sooner than we expect. The quantum future has begun.

AI in Practice

Making Content Ready for Intelligence

Unstructured content already holds the knowledge organisations rely on. The shift is learning how to reveal its structure so intelligent systems can use it.

AI in Practice

Voice Mode Without the Screen

Voice mode with Gemini and ChatGPT. On iOS the lock screen, Dynamic Island, and Live Activities decide whether your assistant stays visible.

Cybernetics: The Idea Behind Cyber

Before it meant computers, cyber meant steering. This piece follows that idea from its origins to the way it now shapes states, platforms, and our digital lives.

AI in Practice

Group Chats in ChatGPT: Solving a Problem That Isn’t There

ChatGPT’s strength has been a focused space to think, explore, and learn. By pushing into group messaging, it risks disturbing that clarity. When an assistant becomes a social venue, not only does the feature struggle to justify itself. It threatens the very environment that made the tool valuable.

AI Strategy

The Workspace Advantage: Google’s Quiet Lead in the AI Shift

The real AI race is not model vs model, but who owns the environment where work lives. Gemini 3 gives Google a quiet but strategic advantage.

Europe

Introducing the EU’s Digital Omnibus Proposal

The Digital Omnibus Proposal signals a shift in Europe’s approach to data and AI governance. Early awareness matters for those building digital tools.

Future of Work

Excel and the future cockpit of business logic

Excel has always been more than a spreadsheet. For decades it has been the place where business logic quietly lives. Not in software systems designed for control, but in the free space where analysts, planners and managers actually think. What interests me today is how this space is changing as

AI Strategy

Finding My Place in Europe’s AI Future

Policy is loud, practice is quiet. Europe’s future will be shaped by those who build working systems. Here is where I choose to look.

AI Strategy Featured

Review of The Reckoning, in the light of the AI boom

The AI boom’s profits rest on old instincts: to stretch time, hide cost, and believe the ledger before the reality beneath it.

AI in Practice

What llms.txt can do for your website

When bots become interpreters of your brand, context matters. llms.txt helps guide what AI systems understand and repeat about your website.

Europe

Where deeptech really happens

From AI to nuclear ships. A look at the heavy, slow innovation shaping Europe’s future and why it matters more than the tech we usually talk about.

AI Strategy

From Silicon to Intelligence: Understanding the Hardware Behind AI

A short video about NPUs and TPUs led to a deeper look at the physical side of AI. From the Neural Engine in your iPhone to the massive processors powering data-centre models.

AI in Practice

Flying Blind: Measuring Traffic When Your Readers Are Machines

As readers move into ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews, we lose sight of them. Can Cloudflare and Plausible help us measure what’s missing?

When Rules Learn to Think: Discovering Google Workspace Flows

A small ‘Flows’ button in Gmail opened a new chapter in how we automate our work. What began as simple rules now behaves like intelligent agents. Powered by Gemini, Google’s expanding AI layer for Workspace and beyond.

AI in Practice

Compute: A New Measure of the World

Compute once meant calculation. Now it shapes work, art, and power. An invisible current running through the modern world’s every action.