A collection of essays and notes from SpeakEZ's Lab
• Houston Haynes
In 2010, most of the people that SpeakEZ Technology’s founder worked with at Live Nation and Ticketmaster believed the mobile web was a scaling problem. The task, as they understood it, was to take what worked on the desktop and make it work on …
• Houston Haynes
Every office has furniture. Desks, chairs, conference tables, filing cabinets. Nobody holds weekly meetings about the furniture. Nobody has a dedicated furniture security team. Nobody wonders if the furniture will steal the company safe and hand it …
• Houston Haynes
A year ago, anyone would have told you the Fidelity Framework was exclusively about native compilation. Clef to MLIR to bare metal. No runtime, no BCL, pure systems programming. The vision was clear and the scope was intentionally narrow. Engineering …
• Houston Haynes
The core message of this talk: functional programming isn’t waiting to win some future popularity contest. It already won, decades ago, by embedding itself in the tools that run the world’s businesses. Every actuary building a risk model, …
• Houston Haynes
* The title of this blog entry is an homage to Lexicon of Musical Invective by Nicholas Slonimsky. The Vocabulary of Doom Every generation produces confident predictions about how new technologies will either revolutionize or destroy the current …
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This entry is part of the 2025 F# Advent Calendar , a month-long celebration across the community. It’s a privilege to contribute alongside so many talented developers who share a passion for this ever-growing language ecosystem. Why ‘Ask …
• Houston Haynes
Tristan Harris recently sat down with Steven Bartlett on Diary of a CEO to discuss the trajectory of artificial intelligence. The conversation covers familiar ground for those tracking AI discourse: existential risk, racing dynamics, job …
• Houston Haynes
The term “artificial intelligence” has died before. Not the research, not the mathematics, not the engineering; the term itself became so poisonous in funding circles that researchers learned to describe their work with any vocabulary …
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Conclave: A sequestered location for confidential deliberation and decision-making. Organizations considering agentic AI systems face a multitude of challenges. The first hurdle is how to build and deploy agentic systems in a way that they can …
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Post-quantum cryptography is coming, and companies that host “contested” technology environments need to prepare. Beneath this assertion lies a troubling assumption, that we can predict which environments will be “contested” …
• Houston Haynes
The SPEC stack represents our vision for a unified approach to principled web development, centering on syntactic uniformity, compile-time transformation, and edge-native deployment. By bringing together SolidJS, Partas.Solid’s broad bindings, …
• Houston Haynes
The convergence of Partas.Solid (web site) and D3.js represents a strategic opportunity to establish a new paradigm for data visualization in functional web development. This proposal outlines a principled architectural approach that would leverage …
• Houston Haynes
Victor is our idea of a command-line tool which merges static site generation traditions with modern reactive web development. Drawing inspiration from Hugo’s templating philosophy, Fornax’s F# script architecture (itself …
• Houston Haynes
AI’s Berlin Wall In our exploration of neuromorphic computing , we examined how specialized hardware might finally deliver on AI’s efficiency promises. But hardware alone cannot solve AI’s most fundamental limitation: the artificial …
• Houston Haynes
The technology industry has developed an unfortunate habit of wrapping straightforward engineering advances in mystical language. When sites online boast of claims to “blur the lines between P and NP,” they’re usually describing …
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The actor model isn’t new. Carl Hewitt introduced it at MIT in 1973, the same year that Ethernet was invented. For fifty years, this elegant model of computation, where independent actors maintain state and communicate through messages, has …
• Houston Haynes
If you haven’t discovered Super Productivity yet, you’re missing one of the most thoughtfully designed productivity tools in the open source ecosystem. This is more than a Pomodoro timer or simple to-do list. It’s a complete work …
• Houston Haynes
In a recent YouTube interview, Tri Dao , architect of Flash Attention and contributor to Mamba, delivered an insight worth exploring here: “If you’re a startup you have to make a bet … you have to make an outsized bet” …
• Houston Haynes
The “AI industrial complex” in its current form is not sustainable. While transformers have delivered remarkable capabilities, their energy consumption and computational demands reveal a fundamental inefficiency: we’re fighting …
• Houston Haynes
Every organization today is paying what we call the “Abstraction Tax”; layers upon layers of middleware, service meshes, sidecars, and orchestration tools that were supposed to simplify operations but instead created a new complexity …
• Houston Haynes
The promise of edge computing for AI workloads has evolved from experimental optimization to production-ready enterprise architecture. What began as our exploration of WASM efficiency gains has matured into a comprehensive platform strategy that …
• Houston Haynes
The quantum computing landscape in 2025 presents both promising advances and sobering realities. While the technology has moved beyond pure research into early commercial deployments, it remains years away from the transformative applications often …
• Houston Haynes
The computing industry stands at a fascinating juncture in 2025. After decades of general-purpose processor dominance that led to the accidental emergence of general purpose GPU, we’re witnessing what appears to be a reverse inflection point. …
• Houston Haynes
The software industry never stands still. While in most cases this translates to technological advance, it also brings change to safety, security and compliance. What was once considered rare practice in secure software development is rapidly …
• Houston Haynes
The world got a wake-up call this week due to Bloomberg’s investigation into how “tiny middlemen” in the SMS routing infrastructure can access two-factor authentication codes. For security professionals, this wasn’t surprising …
• Houston Haynes
In 1993, while the tech world marveled at the newly-freed World Wide Web and debated the coming “Information Superhighway,” a Canadian computer consultant published a three-page warning that everyone dismissed as alarmist. Peter de …
• Houston Haynes
The Fidelity Framework and its ecosystem of technologies represent more than technical achievements, they embody our core values in executable form. Where our Compact establishes how people and groups interact within the SpeakEZ ecosystem, our …
• Houston Haynes
Note: This article was updated September 27, 2025, incorporating insights from recent research and a recent Richard Sutton interview that affirm many of the tenets we have put forward over the years. We’re considering designs with innovative …
• Houston Haynes
In the world of cryptography, a storm is brewing. Quantum computing, once a theoretical curiosity, has been steadily advancing toward practical reality. When sufficiently powerful quantum computers arrive, not if, but when, they will fundamentally …
• Houston Haynes
This entry examines the architectural rationale behind avoiding the creation of yet another managed runtime system, instead advocating for our actor-oriented approach. The question isn’t merely academic - it strikes at the heart of how we build …
• Houston Haynes
A recent ONNX conference presentation reveals an illuminating reality about the current state of AI development infrastructure. In a Groq engineer’s talk on “How to Win Friends and Influence Hardware,” they describe an elaborate …
• Houston Haynes
Last year, we explored how the Clef language ’s type system could transform threshold signature security through FROST. Today, we’re tackling an even more challenging problem: the conspicuous absence of end-to-end encryption in group …
• Houston Haynes
When Simon Peyton Jones, one of the creators of Haskell and a renowned researcher in functional programming, explains Excel, he frames it in a fascinating way: “the easiest way to get at functional programming is to think of …
• Houston Haynes
The software industry has perfected a peculiar form of value extraction that emerges not through direct coercion or byzantine contract provisions, but through the accumulated weight of community contributions that inadvertently reinforce ecosystem …
