Alexander Whillas

The Opposite of VC

Musings on how to start a tech company from scratch with no VC and yet able to compete with VC backed startups? What is the opposite of VC? The resilience business model!

AWS on the Cheap(ish)

Remember when it was still cheap to have a side web project and it cost you a pittance so you could experiment and the web was a lot more diverse? I do. But those days are gone since we all moved to the cloud. Here is an experiment in deploying to AWS for as little as possible in the hopes of keeping the web weird.

Project: Headspace

A new type of interface to data and media which takes ideas from Pure-data/Max-MSP and online whiteboard spaces like Miro while at the same time leveraging linked-data

Engineering First Business Model

An alternative approach to tech business development in which all product decisions are made by the developers not Product Managers with the aim of keeping engineering effort minimal.

Free Energy Principle

My understanding of the Free Energy Principle and how it applies to (machine) learning agents.

Phonetica Game Dev Log

A new game I’m working on to help kids learn to read by sounding out words.

Solid Pod Server

Trying to get behind the linked data movement by following Tim Berners-Lee’s latest crazy vision of the future of the web.

Learning Rust

Why I’m learning Rust and how I’m doing it.

A new Hope...?

A bit about the philosophy of this website.