Systems that settle, in software and in teams
Small tools to think with.
I'm Charlie O'Donoghue, a solutions architect in EV charging infrastructure. I build small tools to think with, read further into a problem than it strictly needs, and write up what I find so I stop forgetting it.
Out now · BK-001
Four short meetings that keep a team understanding each other, for software and product teams and the managers who lead them. Why every conversation loses some meaning, and how a team wins it back.
Also out · BK-002How EV Charging Actually Works
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Latest memoranda
All writing →- If you're not at the table, you're on the menuIn two years MCP went from one company's release to the way AI agents reach everything else. It won by being usable first, not best, and that changes who gets a say.
- EVs are home energy's gateway drugIn 2023 I wrote that an EV nearly doubles a home's electricity. That held. What changed is where I think the flexibility is, and who can sell it.
- How regex learned to readEvery strange symbol in a regular expression has a date and an author. Read in order, from a 1951 maths memo to a Raku grammar, the line noise turns into layers of history.