One API, one MCP, one CLI
The one-ness at the heart of RafeOS is a shared API, MCP and CLI that make it surface agnostic.
Writing
Essays and notes on product, technology and AI — and the transformation that happens where they meet: how it's changing the way we think, lead and work.
The Cockpit
An introduction to Cockpit, the personal app that is the face of RafeOS.
What is RafeOS?
An introduction to RafeOS: the parts, what they look like, and how they fit together.
Why I built a personal operating system
The why of RafeOS, the agentic edge, AI engineering, and what it's taught me so far
A front door for people and machines
Two audiences now: the bifurcation the web and how this site looks to address this.
AI Provenance on rafeblandford.com
Every post here on rafeblandford.com carries a small label saying how it was made: written by me, written with AI, or AI-authored. You can see it next…
Lessons in AI Adoption
As part of the UK Government's AI Champions programme an independent report AI Adoption Plan: Creative Industries was published this week. It is w…
Screen Time + Digital Wellbeing Score
I've been building RafeOS, a personal data and tooling layer that pulls my health, calendar, mail, home and reading into one place I can query. Th…
Notes from SXSW London 2026
Sharing some notes from last week's festival - as usual there was an eclectic mix - and perhaps a greater than usual sense of ambiguity around the…
BIMA 100 Tech & AI Pioneer
I was proud to have recently been named in the BIMA 100 2026, in the AI & Tech Pioneers category. Thanks to the team at BIMA (British Interactive…
Running a Personal Server Without Thinking About It
The important question to ask when they set up a personal server is: what happens when you stop paying attention to it? This post covers the monitori…
Preserving Flickr Archive with a Data Lifeboat
For a couple of decades I used Flickr as a working photo library — uploading from press events, device launches, Mobile World Congress, Nokia World, S…
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