# Artefact (artefact.ist)

> Personal publishing platform and engineering knowledge base by Paul Berry — exploring aesthetic engineering, backend mechanics, agentic AI, hardware design & manufacturing, brutalist frontend deployments, autonomous systems architecture, Eurorack, and photography.

A chronological ledger of `artefact` entries (long-form essays). There are also `byte` and `nibble` entries, which are supplemental notes (which can contain anything; from music to food, links, etc) that can stand alone or be linked to artefacts. Every public page and entry can be fetched directly as clean Markdown via its `.md` URL or by sending `Accept: text/markdown`.

## Core Endpoints

- [Latest Artefact](https://artefact.ist/): Frontpage featuring the newest published entry.
- [The Index (Markdown)](https://artefact.ist/index.md): Chronological archive grouped by year and month.
- [About Paul Berry (Markdown)](https://artefact.ist/about.md): Author profile, axiom, and archive telemetry.
- [Lexicon: artefact (Markdown)](https://artefact.ist/artefact.md): Definition and etymology of artefact.
- [Full Public Corpus (llms-full.txt)](https://artefact.ist/llms-full.txt): Complete Markdown text of all published entries.
- [RSS Feed](https://artefact.ist/rss.xml): Syndication XML feed with MP3 narration enclosures.
- [XML Sitemap](https://artefact.ist/sitemap.xml): Canonical HTML URL sitemap.

## Public Search API

- `GET https://artefact.ist/api/artefacts/search?q=<query>`: Rate-limited JSON full-text search across active titles, content, and tags.

## Topics

- [#ai](https://artefact.ist/tag/ai) (18)
- [#food](https://artefact.ist/tag/food) (11)
- [#recipe](https://artefact.ist/tag/recipe) (11)
- [#homemade](https://artefact.ist/tag/homemade) (10)
- [#sushi](https://artefact.ist/tag/sushi) (10)
- [#agentic](https://artefact.ist/tag/agentic) (7)
- [#engineering](https://artefact.ist/tag/engineering) (6)
- [#leadership](https://artefact.ist/tag/leadership) (6)
- [#anthropic](https://artefact.ist/tag/anthropic) (4)
- [#google](https://artefact.ist/tag/google) (4)
- [#artefact](https://artefact.ist/tag/artefact) (3)
- [#eurorack](https://artefact.ist/tag/eurorack) (3)
- [#openai](https://artefact.ist/tag/openai) (3)
- [#privacy](https://artefact.ist/tag/privacy) (3)
- [#agile](https://artefact.ist/tag/agile) (2)
- [#businessOS](https://artefact.ist/tag/businessOS) (2)
- [#developers](https://artefact.ist/tag/developers) (2)
- [#dns](https://artefact.ist/tag/dns) (2)
- [#frontier](https://artefact.ist/tag/frontier) (2)
- [#gemini](https://artefact.ist/tag/gemini) (2)
- [#makenoise](https://artefact.ist/tag/makenoise) (2)
- [#modular](https://artefact.ist/tag/modular) (2)
- [#product](https://artefact.ist/tag/product) (2)
- [#specification](https://artefact.ist/tag/specification) (2)
- [#thinking](https://artefact.ist/tag/thinking) (2)
- [#AITooling](https://artefact.ist/tag/AITooling) (1)
- [#BuildVsBuy](https://artefact.ist/tag/BuildVsBuy) (1)
- [#DigitalSovereignty](https://artefact.ist/tag/DigitalSovereignty) (1)
- [#SaaSapocalypse](https://artefact.ist/tag/SaaSapocalypse) (1)
- [#TechOPEX](https://artefact.ist/tag/TechOPEX) (1)

## Published Artefacts

- [The Compounding Crisis: Why Technical Debt has Become a Boardroom Emergency](https://artefact.ist/artefact/1ebeea56-d636-11f1-96ad-136eecb04876/the-compounding-crisis-why-technical-debt-has-become-a-boardroom-emergency.md): 01 Nov 2026 / artefact / 8 min — #ai, #engineering, #security, #technicaldebt, #boardroom
- [Making use of your pumpkin seeds after Halloween](https://artefact.ist/artefact/6cca3f9e-d6f3-11f1-8033-ff015ff27c5a/making-use-of-your-pumpkin-seeds-after-halloween.md): 31 Oct 2026 / nibble / 2 min — #pumpkin, #food, #halloween, #recipe
- [Gemini 4 Carbon: Why Google Handed the Keys to the Locksmiths First](https://artefact.ist/artefact/f5bd8738-d573-11f1-b1bf-8be6b6ee77fb/gemini-4-carbon-why-google-handed-the-keys-to-the-locksmiths-first.md): 30 Oct 2026 / artefact / 5 min — #gemini, #ai, #google, #frontier, #cybersecurity, #carbon
- [The return of the programmer at the Table](https://artefact.ist/artefact/cc59ea20-cbe2-11f1-80bd-6b0b3494fbad/the-return-of-the-programmer-at-the-table.md): 18 Oct 2026 / artefact / 5 min — #ai, #agentic, #product, #brokentelephone, #development, #sanity
- [Make Noise Plexiphon, super tempting!](https://artefact.ist/artefact/a45e9bb4-c4e5-11f1-bc76-c7687da4a67a/make-noise-plexiphon-super-tempting.md): 10 Oct 2026 / artefact / 3 min — #eurorack, #modular, #makenoise, #synthesis, #plexiphon
- [Revisiting the Make Noise Morphagene: A Return to the Splice](https://artefact.ist/artefact/94540d8e-c4dc-11f1-9949-63e1824d5dbb/revisiting-the-make-noise-morphagene-a-return-to-the-splice.md): 09 Oct 2026 / artefact / 2 min — #eurorack, #splice, #morphagene, #makenoise
- [The Agile Altar: Why Software Engineering is a Discipline, Not a Belief System](https://artefact.ist/artefact/d57626aa-c241-11f1-9c6e-476dca875085/the-agile-altar-why-software-engineering-is-a-discipline-not-a-belief-system.md): 06 Oct 2026 / artefact / 4 min — #agile, #engineering, #leadership, #discipline, #future
- [The Architecture of High Performance: Why Good Leaders Build Systems, Not Just Goals](https://artefact.ist/artefact/8cd4449a-bfc1-11f1-a7fb-17695403ee28/the-architecture-of-high-performance-why-good-leaders-build-systems-not-just-goals.md): 04 Oct 2026 / artefact / 4 min — #leadership, #personal, #motivation, #leaders, #people
- [Eurorack Buffered Mult/Precision Adder](https://artefact.ist/artefact/4d4bfba2-b723-11f1-9bc1-1344e462da8c/eurorack-buffered-mult-precision-adder.md): 19 Sep 2026 / artefact / 1 min — #eurorack, #product, #hardware, #adder, #modular, #design, #mult
- [Why Anthropic’s Stance on Open Source Has Lost My Support](https://artefact.ist/artefact/2257b54e-8910-11f1-810d-77bbe864a0a9/why-anthropic-s-stance-on-open-source-has-lost-my-support.md): 26 Jul 2026 / artefact / 4 min — #ai, #anthropic, #bullshit, #marketing, #opensource
- [Could Gel Data Be the Answer to Graph Agentic Loops?](https://artefact.ist/artefact/81ec377a-83ff-11f1-81ee-cf9e245f331d/could-gel-data-be-the-answer-to-graph-agentic-loops.md): 23 Jul 2026 / artefact / 5 min — #ai, #agentic, #loops, #geldata, #graph
- [Using AI for Cerebral Amplification](https://artefact.ist/artefact/66584b22-7d72-11f1-bd55-1f91c5b5fb4a/using-ai-for-cerebral-amplification.md): 11 Jul 2026 / artefact / 10 min — #ai, #leadership, #thinking, #augmentation, #cerebral, #bias
- [The New Frontier of Agentic AI](https://artefact.ist/artefact/c1d0f690-7d11-11f1-bff7-cbf6eaf1072a/the-new-frontier-of-agentic-ai.md): 11 Jul 2026 / artefact / 3 min — #ai, #openai, #gpt, #models, #sol, #frontier
- [Remember](https://artefact.ist/artefact/bdf94c88-7ef7-11f1-91a7-6b98548517e5/remember.md): 10 Jul 2026 / artefact / 1 min — #note
- [Anthropic - The J-Space](https://artefact.ist/artefact/75e28510-7aa9-11f1-970d-cb34daae0b25/anthropic-the-j-space.md): 08 Jul 2026 / artefact / 3 min — #ai, #anthropic, #cool, #claude, #j-space, #thinking
- [Why Code Review May Soon (have to) Be Obsolete](https://artefact.ist/artefact/fb8bba20-77e7-11f1-995b-2bfe0ef8fd2b/why-code-review-may-soon-have-to-be-obsolete.md): 04 Jul 2026 / artefact / 6 min — #ai, #agentic, #leadership, #developers, #code, #codereview
- [Why AI Makes Centralised Artefact Management Practical](https://artefact.ist/artefact/c66ae450-7716-11f1-9ab0-37ccb014c850/why-ai-makes-centralised-artefact-management-practical.md): 03 Jul 2026 / artefact / 5 min — #ai, #artefact, #agentic, #businessOS, #secondbrain
- [The Sovereign slow death to the Subscription Era](https://artefact.ist/artefact/4efbd2b6-7307-11f1-b8e0-e34411f6244b/the-sovereign-slow-death-to-the-subscription-era.md): 26 Jun 2026 / artefact / 6 min — #DigitalSovereignty, #BuildVsBuy, #SaaSapocalypse, #AITooling, #TechOPEX
- [AI Agents, RAG, and the Test-as-Specification Paradigm](https://artefact.ist/artefact/089a66b0-6bb0-11f1-bd99-df46f6a124b3/ai-agents-rag-and-the-test-as-specification-paradigm.md): 18 Jun 2026 / artefact / 6 min — #artefact, #agentic, #specification, #submit, #business, #testing, #qa
- [Why Engineering Teams Must Return to Writing Their Own Tooling](https://artefact.ist/artefact/08a90912-6a8a-11f1-8215-db72ed8b42a0/why-engineering-teams-must-return-to-writing-their-own-tooling.md): 17 Jun 2026 / artefact / 5 min — #engineering, #tooling, #saas, #workflows, #programmers
- [An Objective Look at Google's AI Long Game](https://artefact.ist/artefact/02a79fde-69b7-11f1-8a99-6fb9374da1a5/an-objective-look-at-google-s-ai-long-game.md): 16 Jun 2026 / artefact / 5 min — #ai, #google, #openai, #strategy, #compute, #anthropic
- [Reimagining the SDLC for a New Era of Engineering](https://artefact.ist/artefact/32bffc92-6742-11f1-9249-2f62243f42db/reimagining-the-sdlc-for-a-new-era-of-engineering.md): 12 Jun 2026 / artefact / 4 min — #ai, #agile, #sdlc, #artefact, #waterfall, #engineering
- [How to install Pi-hole on a UGREEN NAS](https://artefact.ist/artefact/cb4ff6fa-6388-11f1-89a0-6babf3e67de5/how-to-install-pi-hole-on-a-ugreen-nas.md): 08 Jun 2026 / artefact / 5 min — #privacy, #dns, #docker, #pi-hole, #ugreen
- [Taking My Digital Sovereignty Back](https://artefact.ist/artefact/c0fe5f80-62ab-11f1-acaf-ff65fd1afabf/taking-my-digital-sovereignty-back.md): 07 Jun 2026 / artefact / 3 min — #self-hosting, #sovereignty, #privacy, #dns, #self-determination
- [Google expands Gemini API](https://artefact.ist/artefact/2d79dd36-48c8-11f1-ab48-679e04314a53/google-expands-gemini-api.md): 05 May 2026 / artefact / 2 min — #news, #rag, #gemini, #ai, #google
- [Why Switching from Chrome to Vivaldi Is a Smart Move for Privacy](https://artefact.ist/artefact/30143296-69b9-11f1-b38c-4b10c377fb05/why-switching-from-chrome-to-vivaldi-is-a-smart-move-for-privacy.md): 25 Apr 2026 / artefact / 4 min — #privacy, #chromium, #vivaldi, #chrome
- [Something old becoming something new again](https://artefact.ist/artefact/b84172b2-67d1-11f1-ae55-03f5ebe90532/something-old-becoming-something-new-again.md): 11 Apr 2026 / artefact / 4 min
- [Navigating Psychological Safety, and AI Tooling in Engineering Teams](https://artefact.ist/artefact/8c6ed342-6a87-11f1-87dd-cfa312e747f3/navigating-psychological-safety-and-ai-tooling-in-engineering-teams.md): 26 Mar 2026 / artefact / 4 min — #ai, #engineering, #leadership, #intent, #developers, #specification
- [Why SLTs Must Radically Reimagine the Business Operating System for the Agentic AI Era](https://artefact.ist/artefact/88eed34c-67db-11f1-acbe-ab517af7aaa1/why-slts-must-radically-reimagine-the-business-operating-system-for-the-agentic-ai-era.md): 24 Feb 2026 / artefact / 6 min — #ai, #agentic, #leadership, #businessOS, #slt
- [OpenClaw is awesome](https://artefact.ist/artefact/001845f8-d6fd-11f1-b442-8b693479ac9f/openclaw-is-awesome.md): 21 Feb 2026 / nibble / 1 min — #ai, #agentic, #openclaw, #awesome, #raspberrypi
- [About](https://artefact.ist/artefact/5998313e-c4e1-11f1-8b61-33ae07c19cfd/about.md): 01 Jan 2026 / artefact / 1 min — #about
- [Sweet Chilli Tofu & Crunchy Carrot Vegan Roll](https://artefact.ist/artefact/3c522fa4-d6f6-11f1-b0e9-6f7f96270891/sweet-chilli-tofu-crunchy-carrot-vegan-roll.md): 28 Dec 2025 / byte / 1 min — #food, #recipe, #sushi, #homemade
- [Crispy Breaded Chicken Katsu Roll](https://artefact.ist/artefact/3507faf4-d6f5-11f1-b718-0bbb7b035c3f/crispy-breaded-chicken-katsu-roll.md): 18 Dec 2025 / byte / 1 min — #food, #recipe, #sushi, #homemade
- [The Month the Chatbot Died and the Orchestrator Took Over](https://artefact.ist/artefact/d0eabaea-d6f7-11f1-87e9-8bd3609da0de/the-month-the-chatbot-died-and-the-orchestrator-took-over.md): 30 Nov 2025 / artefact / 5 min — #ai, #google, #openai, #anthropic, #november, #cloudflare
- [Teriyaki Halloumi & Roasted Red Pepper Roll](https://artefact.ist/artefact/1ae8cd14-d6f6-11f1-b0e9-0725663c8082/teriyaki-halloumi-roasted-red-pepper-roll.md): 29 Nov 2025 / byte / 1 min — #food, #recipe, #sushi, #homemade
- [Crab Stick (Surimi), Mango & Cucumber California Roll](https://artefact.ist/artefact/eff02602-d6f5-11f1-9c1d-0756d9317f1b/crab-stick-surimi-mango-cucumber-california-roll.md): 20 Nov 2025 / byte / 1 min — #food, #recipe, #sushi, #homemade
- [Smoked Salmon, Cream Cheese & Cucumber Roll (Philly Style)](https://artefact.ist/artefact/0d34e6a4-d6f5-11f1-90fe-73f23327a160/smoked-salmon-cream-cheese-cucumber-roll-philly-style.md): 18 Nov 2025 / byte / 1 min — #food, #recipe, #sushi, #homemade
- [Prawn Cocktail & Avocado Roll](https://artefact.ist/artefact/6885609c-d6f5-11f1-b718-b311597126ed/prawn-cocktail-avocado-roll.md): 15 Oct 2025 / byte / 1 min — #food, #recipe, #sushi, #homemade
- [Duck & Hoisin Cucumber Roll](https://artefact.ist/artefact/ca28ebc0-d6f5-11f1-9c1d-4f0f3da40642/duck-hoisin-cucumber-roll.md): 05 Oct 2025 / byte / 1 min — #food, #recipe, #sushi, #homemade
- [September 2025: The Month the Chat Window Died](https://artefact.ist/artefact/c73575f2-d6f8-11f1-babb-8fe25f1e082f/september-2025-the-month-the-chat-window-died.md): 28 Sep 2025 / artefact / 5 min — #ai, #engineering, #harness, #september
- [Spicy Canned Tuna & Spring Onion Roll](https://artefact.ist/artefact/7a7c66d8-d6f5-11f1-8f2c-4fc48e982825/spicy-canned-tuna-spring-onion-roll.md): 06 Sep 2025 / byte / 1 min — #food, #recipe, #sushi, #homemade
- [Japanese Tamago (Sweet Omelette) Nigiri](https://artefact.ist/artefact/7d673f48-d6f6-11f1-9c1d-970d659b227d/japanese-tamago-sweet-omelette-nigiri.md): 30 Aug 2025 / byte / 1 min — #food, #recipe, #sushi, #homemade
- [Prawn Tempura & Sriracha Mayo Crunch Roll](https://artefact.ist/artefact/b054b61a-d6f6-11f1-9c1d-3b7351bbd127/prawn-tempura-sriracha-mayo-crunch-roll.md): 09 Aug 2025 / byte / 1 min — #food, #recipe, #sushi, #homemade