sjg.ioSimon's personal website and bloghttps://preview82.sjg.io/Against the Great Convergencehttps://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/Why I am fighting the consolidation of the internet and how you can tooMon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTCI/CD for communication: how we ship clarity every weekhttps://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/Apply product discipline to leadership comms so people know what matters and why, every week.Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTConsolidation, Againhttps://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/When one AWS region falters and half the internet stumbles, it tells us something deeper about the state of technology. This is not just a cloud story. It is a consolidation story.Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTDay 1 at Beyond EMEA 2025: Building from Withinhttps://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/How Pax8 is proving the Managed Intelligence Provider model by living it first through Customer Zero.Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTAn Eleven-Year-Old Lightpack Still Going Stronghttps://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/Rob Belgrave's original Lightpack Kickstarter project is still working perfectly after 11 years, attached to an ultrawide monitor that just changed hands.Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTEmail Is Not Deadhttps://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/In 2014, Asana's founder predicted the imminent death of email. Eleven years later, email is still very much alive. Here's why predictions about technology often miss the mark.Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTFirepit Plannerhttps://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/Building a firepit for the forest school woods with a little help from CursorSat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTFixing EDID Failures on Resume with a Framework Laptophttps://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/Why your external monitor connects at 640x480 after waking from sleep, and a dynamic EDID caching fix for Framework laptops on Linux.Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTForgotten Kickstarter Projectshttps://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/Finding documentation of a Kickstarter reward I have no memory of receiving or using, and wondering how many other forgotten indie hardware projects are out there - and how Kickstarter has changed.Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTFrom single region to product podshttps://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/How we moved from a regional service hub to product oriented pods with worldwide coverageThu, 10 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMTHiring for AI? Look Beyond Certificationshttps://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/The three kinds of AI work-and why the real ROI is new capabilities, not hours saved.Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTMy First 3D Printerhttps://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/A look back at my first 3D printer from 2013 - lead screws, MDF construction, and a hand lathed nozzle. How times have changed in the world of 3D printing.Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTNew Role: SVP, Workflow Engineering at Pax8https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/The three outcomes my new role at Pax8 is designed to deliver: enablement, automation, and orchestration.Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTOpen Source, Open Home: A Practical Approach to Home Automationhttps://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/Building a house that's polite, not flashy - using Home Assistant, open source tools, and automation-first thinking to create a transparent, adoptable home system.Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTOperational AI that actually shipshttps://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/The routing layer that makes agentic systems safe and measurable in enterprise operationsSun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMTReminiscing Over Old Projectshttps://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/Looking back at a door entry system built in 2014 - prototyped at rLab, deployed at Wirehive, and a reminder of the joy of building things that actually work.Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTSuspend Battery Drain on the Framework 13 Intel - It's Fine, Actuallyhttps://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/Investigating battery drain during suspend on a Framework 13 running Ubuntu, finding out s2idle is working perfectly, and setting up suspend-then-hibernate as a sensible workaround.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTTexture Engraving and Branded Moleskineshttps://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/A period of experimenting with texture engraving at rLab, creating bump maps from STL files, and using those textures to produce Wirehive branded Moleskines on mass.Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe 2026 Computer-Literate Barhttps://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/Why computer literacy matters now, and exactly what to do to reach the 2026 bar.Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTThe Intel Noise Maker Prankhttps://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/Sometimes the best pranks are the simplest ones. How an Intel promotional noise maker ended up hidden in Rob Belgrave's new car, and why someone at Intel was feeling very smug.Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Shape of Agentic Workhttps://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/A field guide to agents that actually ship work: embedded in your systems, guided by policy, and obsessed with closing the loop.Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTThe Slack I Loved Is Slipping Awayhttps://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/Salesforce's grip on Slack is reshaping it from a neutral collaboration layer into a gated CRM surface, squeezing communities and third-party builders.Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTTouchdown in Amsterdamhttps://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/On the ground for Pax8 Beyond EMEA. What I’m watching as AI and automation hit real workflows.Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTWhich year does your role become redundant? A personal playbook for now through 2045https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/Evidence-led guidance for individuals in the Western world. What to do, when to do it, and which signals to watch so you stay employable through the next four waves of automation.Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTWhy I still care about DNS, routing, and logs when people want to talk modelshttps://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/Linux and networking roots that still apply to AI and modern systemsFri, 05 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTWork, Woodlands, and Geocacheshttps://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/When work expands to fill every gap, you stop noticing how much you are giving up. Here's how I learned to find hobbies that actually pull you out of work.Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTYet another major outage caused by everybody using the same cloud providerhttps://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/https://preview82.sjg.io/writing/undefined/Cloudflare was down again, taking a swath of the web with it—and reminding us that monocultures are a choice, not a law of nature.Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT