Marcus Povey

Fractional CTO for organisations navigating the AI transition. Have laptop, will travel.

[Marcus Povey @mapkyca]

I’m brought in as a fractional CTO / senior architect to get systems under control, align technology with the business, and apply AI in actually useful ways. Available for architecture advisory, or short-term high-impact engagements. Lets chat! https://t.co/eKvCqOZeLj

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Introducing MeetQuorum, a Self-Hosted Meeting Scheduler

Scratching an itch for my team, I build a Doodle clone over a couple of hours while enjoying some lovely wine in a sunny pub garden.

https://t.co/bnBPA2L4p9

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Introducing Milkshake, a Sovereign, Local-First Task Manager

Not wanting to bury the lede; I built a todo list application to replace my Remember The Milk subscription, entirely using free AI tools, on a Saturday morning. Here's how...

https://t.co/XDFiTa1in7

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Stop Talking About Federation. Build Something.

Last week we had a hackathon during which time we successfully demonstrated discovery and federation of catalogues between EOSC nodes

https://t.co/Q54ETBmNEt

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On an almost daily basis I have to swerve or slam on my brakes because one of the local squirrels decides it's had enough of life and tries to dive in front of my bike wheels. I think it's time we started talking about squirrel mental health, is everything ok my fuzzy dudes?

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AI is brilliant! Now, stop wiring it into everything.

As we rush towards the AI future, it is important to take a beat to consider that AI security is... terrible.

https://t.co/SDfgyWbbUg

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To give an idea at the speed of change in AI, here are two images using the same prompt "photo of alternative universe ww2 where the allies use dragons when storming the Normandy beaches". Stark the difference in just a couple of years.

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Mapping EOSC EU Node Service Catalogue to DCAT

Based on work done in EOSC United, I have drafted how one might map the required fields from the EOSC EU Node service catalogue schema to DCAT.

https://t.co/mfBCS3SuyT

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Introducing the EOSC node (sort of)

Got a little impatient so started making a thing

https://t.co/FeS4O0Iuos

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Being prepared for Agentic Search

AI Agents are people too, and in the future they're going to want to use your services.

https://t.co/v3I5fNxBOS

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There but for the grace of God and all that, so shouldn’t throw too much shade… but if a single entity, biological or silicon based, can nuke your production database and all backups in one go that was a failure mode waiting to happen. Lesson for us all - stress test your shit!

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Presentation I gave to my team on Friday around usage of AI, vibe coding and my own experience. May be useful to you, enjoy: https://t.co/fXehzm0U24

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Even if you choose not to use AI for development, managers and clients will assume you are. Expectations of timescales will adjust accordingly...

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Having fun exposing some of the capabilities of ARIA to AI via an MCP server, also built largely using AI (Google Antigravity). Round and round we go!

[Marcus Povey @mapkyca]

If you are running a Research Infrastructure or are writing a EU grant application and need help with access management, then please hit me up! https://t.co/zdMiXSnI1m