Skillful
Local-first platform for managing reusable AI workflows and organisational knowledge.
Rick van Lieshout
CTO, software architect and engineering leader focused on building great software, growing teams and solving complex technical challenges.
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Featured Work
A few open-source projects and tools I've built or maintained over the years.
Latest Articles
Data Events vs Domain Events: Stop Mixing Them
Data events and domain events both have their place, but mixing them is one of the fastest ways to create confusion in event-driven systems.
Read (5 min read)Monoliths to Microservices: Finding the Right Moment
Choosing between modular monoliths and microservices is not about trends, it is about timing, team maturity, and understanding trade-offs.
Read (6 min read)What is Software Architecture (Really)?
Software architecture isn’t a fixed design or a set of diagrams, it’s the evolving set of decisions that guide how a system behaves and grows with its team.
Read (8 min read)A Hidden Life of Pain, Sorrow, Misery and Rampant Emotions
A deeply personal story about grief, memory, and the long road through the shadows. For anyone who’s lost someone they can never get back.
Read (16 min read)Infrastructure as Code - Simplifying My Homelab Setup with Portainer GitOps
How I've simplified my homelab by combining the ease of Unraid storage management with Portainer's GitOps feature to implement Infrastructure as Code.
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