Daniel John Morris

Technology Director at Cubitts

Over 16 years of technology leadership, building the teams, platforms, and products that fuel company growth. Writing about technical decisions, explorations, and passion projects along the way.

My Writing What I'm Reading
Project Ongoing ilo: A Programming Language for AI Agents, Not Humans A performant language designed for LLMs to write. Optimised for token and character length, and rethought for non-human use cases. Project Ongoing AI Coworkers: Not Just Chatbots or Agents Two codebases asking where a long-running AI coworker should live. ai-coworkers is a standalone TypeScript runtime driven by markdown job descriptions. hermes-governance is the same boundary model rebuilt as a Hermes plugin, to find out how much of it an existing host can carry.

Recent Writing

All articles
Aug 2026Reverse-Engineering omp.sh's Dithered BackgroundAug 2026Self-hosting a Linear or Jira Replacement: Plane and Huly on 8 GBAug 2026Simple custom website blocker for ChromeAug 2026Building with vgpu, Vercel's WebGPU LibraryAug 2026Comparing graft and jCodeMunch

Topics

llm70 tooling40 ilo31 agents28 claude-code18 language-design16 python14 aws14 architecture13 ai12 rust10 go10 self-hosting9 machine-learning9 infrastructure8 serverless8 typescript8 three.js8 ai-agents7 api7 webgl7 computer-vision7 docker6 pytorch6 performance6 hetzner5 mcp5 lambda5 shaders5 jepa5 self-supervised-learning5 rag5 deepseek4 react4 pattern4 cdk4 localstack4 vps4 procedural-generation3 javascript3 frontend3 arm643 pi3 observability3 saga3 eventbridge3 queues3 jit3 nlp3 transformers3 vercel2 tokens2 benchmarks2 email2 dmarc2 productivity2 opentelemetry2 logging2 dynamodb2 database2 orchestration2 choreography2 step-functions2 glsl2 data2 sql2 wasm2 attention2 games2 world-models2 programming2 node2 parallax2 gpu2 postgres2 astro2 vm2 next.js2 embeddings2 linear1 jira1 project-management1 webgpu1

Background

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From early-stage founding teams to leading engineering at 100+ person companies, across startups and scale-ups.