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The full archive. Sorted by date, no algorithm, no engagement score: just the things I wanted to say, in the order they came to me.

05.05 2026
№ 64

Digital Sovereignty GDPR AI Act DSA Politics OF Technology

The Spectre We Are

A long reckoning with European digital regulation seen from the outside—by those who hate it—and a counter-reading from inside, by those who translate those rules into technical objects every working day.

22′ reading time

4,950 words

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01.05 2026
№ 63

Compliance PLD AI Act CRA EU Regulation

The Contract's Deception

On why the software supply contract, as we have known it, has stopped being the central instrument of the relationship between vendor and client — and how much it costs to keep pretending it still is.

19′ reading time

4.180 words

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01.05 2026
№ 62

Compliance Work Software Development AI Act Labour Market

The Rise of the Compliance Engineer

On the figure now emerging from the gap between software engineering and European regulation, and on why almost no one is noticing in time.

16′ reading time

3.520 words

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01.05 2026
№ 61

Compliance AI Act PLD Technical Debt Philosophy OF Technology

The Specification Debt

On why the document that certifies the system ages worse than the code that implements it, and why the next generation of civil software-liability cases will be fought over the specification.

19′ reading time

4.420 words

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29.04 2026
№ 60

Wellbeing AI Work Time Philosophy OF Technology

The Shape the Day Lost

There's a diffuse tiredness we don't know how to name. It doesn't come from doing more: it comes from living inside a time that has lost its shape. AI doesn't speed the activity up — it replaces it with another, and the body, calibrated over years, can no longer read the day.

7′ reading time

1.310 words

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27.04 2026
№ 59

Compliance EU Regulation AI Act CRA Philosophy OF Technology Architecture Strategy

The Shape of Constraint

Treating regulatory compliance as the adversary of the technical project means you haven't understood what the technical project is. An essay on the category error weakening Europe's software industry — and on how the European framework, read as a system rather than as a list, configures a structural competitive advantage for those who learn to inhabit it.

16′ reading time

3.842 words

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21.04 2026
№ 58

Compliance GDPR EU Regulation Philosophy OF Technology

DPIA as a Genre, Not a Form

The EDPB's DPIA template, released in April, isn't a longer form. It codifies a form. On the shift from module to genre, and what changes for anyone who writes compliance as continuous writing practice.

26′ reading time

6.514 words

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19.04 2026
№ 57

Software Development Software Philosophy OF Technology Technical Debt

Cruft, Not Patina

Buildings learn, Stewart Brand argued. Software, instead, accumulates comments that apologize. On why digital objects can't grow old — and what that says about the civilization that has put them at its center.

23′ reading time

5.180 words

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18.04 2026
№ 56

Compliance PLD EU Regulation Philosophy OF Technology