Nick Howell

Still learning.
Still building.
Still calling out the hype.

30 years of enterprise infrastructure. Storage, networking, virtualization, cloud, AI inference, home lab, and whatever else is worth writing about this week.

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Recent Writing

  • Your Website Doesn’t Speak AI Yet

    There’s a new interface layer being standardized across the web right now. It’s written in plain text. It’s been quietly adopted by Anthropic, Stripe, Cloudflare, and hundreds of others. And your enterprise almost certainly doesn’t have one.

  • Private Compute, Public Burden

    $64 billion in blocked projects. A statewide moratorium in Maine. Eleven states considering similar action. The industry keeps calling this a NIMBY problem. It isn’t.

  • What Even Is Vibe Coding?

    Everyone’s either mocking the phrase or evangelizing it. Both camps are missing the point. “Vibe coding” is a dumb name for something that’s actually reshaping who gets to build software, and what your 20 years of infrastructure experience is suddenly worth in that world. I have opinions. Lots of them.

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