https://mriridescent.africa/blog Field notes on software, systems thinking, security, AI, and the practice of building in public. en Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT © 2026 David Akpoviroro Oke. All rights reserved. https://mriridescent.africa/blog/the-polymath-is-a-systems-engineer https://mriridescent.africa/blog/the-polymath-is-a-systems-engineer Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT David Akpoviroro Oke Practice Systems thinking Why a wide range of skills is a systems discipline, not a lack of focus — and the tax that comes with it. https://mriridescent.africa/blog/security-is-a-design-material https://mriridescent.africa/blog/security-is-a-design-material Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT David Akpoviroro Oke Security Engineering Threat modelling belongs in the first sketch, not the last sprint. What changes when you treat security like a material instead of a gate. https://mriridescent.africa/blog/twenty-years-of-the-web https://mriridescent.africa/blog/twenty-years-of-the-web Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT David Akpoviroro Oke Engineering Artificial intelligence Every abstraction leaks, the demo is not the system, and the human in the loop is not decoration. https://mriridescent.africa/blog/the-interface-is-a-promise https://mriridescent.africa/blog/the-interface-is-a-promise Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:00:00 GMT David Akpoviroro Oke Design Product Every screen makes a claim about what the system will do next. Most product bugs are broken promises between layers. https://mriridescent.africa/blog/green-software-is-a-design-constraint https://mriridescent.africa/blog/green-software-is-a-design-constraint Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:00:00 GMT David Akpoviroro Oke Climate Engineering Efficiency is not a quarterly initiative. It is a set of decisions about payloads, queries, and how long a device is allowed to work.