Four Bubbles I've Lived Through, With One Exception
April 29, 2025Working in technology means riding wave after wave of hype. Some waves reshape the landscape; others crash on the shore, leaving behind damp sand and ...
I work as the CTO at Giant; managing software engineering teams, leading product development, creating resilient systems, and operating internet infrastructure. I've been doing this for the last 15-or-so years.
My professional interests lie in digital giving; I help charities, NGOs and other ethically-positive organisations promote themselves online, and raise funds through digital. Outside of my work, I'm interested in UNIX, open source, and digital history.
This website doesn't represent the views of Giant, but there's probably a lot of overlap.
I have profiles on Github and LinkedIn.
Blog Posts
Trust but Verify: Sensible Ways to Use LLMs in Production
April 26, 2025Like many engineers right now, I'm exploring how LLMs can accelerate workflows. The potential is undeniable: generating code snippets, drafting conten...
The MCP Servers I Actually Use
April 22, 2025The Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem is changing quickly. While experimentation is interesting, I've found myself settling on a core set of MCP ...
Mastodon Posts
Jon Atkinson
@jonThe <meta generator> tag in the age of AI.
Jon Atkinson
@jonI posted a little while ago about my de-corporatisation of my computing; email services and stuff.
One of the biggest computing upgrades I made this year was moving from Windows11/WSL to #Fedora/#KDE.
KDE is high quality software. An ecosystem full of people making software, and all with a shared understanding of both simplicity and complexity, and the principle of least-surprise. #Plasma is such an incredible achievement in it's current form. I'm in awe. And it's a joy to use.
Jon Atkinson
@jonDiscord are putting advertising in their mobile apps.
I still don't understand why so many interesting open-source and hacker-adjacent communities moved to Discord when this was the only possible outcome. We willingly became the product.
https://www.theverge.com/news/633166/discord-mobile-video-ads-quests-ipo
Other Content
- notes/ - my topic-specific notes, and book summaries.
Contact
If you need to contact me:
- email me at
jon@jonatkinson.co.uk, or - message me on Mastodon, where I am @jon@fedi.jonatkinson.co.uk
Don't assume I will reply quickly.
About This Site
This site is just some Markdown documents which I maintain by hand, with a one-function Python wrapper to manage responses. I'm sure there are a lot of inconsistencies and broken links. I keep a site todo list.
