Tedla Brandsema

Tedla Brandsema

Software Architect & Independent Researcher

Tedla Brandsema is a software engineer and independent researcher based in the Netherlands, working across software architecture, AI systems, Go tooling, and long-horizon engineering.

Recent Projects

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Open-source software, guides, and tutorials.

Yoink

Project

Include full or partial files from local and remote HTTP(S) sources with a simple line-based Go library.

Tagex

Project

Execute struct-tag driven evaluation and mutation logic in Go with explicit, reusable directives.

Recent Writing

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The five most recent articles, essays, dossiers, and memos.

Structured Errors in Go

date: by Tedla Brandsema

Article

Go gives you errors as values and, since 1.21, structured logging in the standard library. The two do not meet: context is known deep in the call stack, and the decision to write a log record belongs at the boundary. A small type closes ...

The Frontier That Lasted Three Days

date: by Tedla Brandsema

Article

Claude Fable 5 was public for three days before an export-control letter made it unreachable. That week settled four arguments I'd been having since January, and exposed the borrowed floor that holds the price of everything else down.

On AI-Assisted Writing

date: by Tedla Brandsema

Article

Thoughts on collaboration, authorship, and the tools that extend our capacity to think and write

The Cybersecurity Fire Hose

date: by Tedla Brandsema

Article

Vulnerability discovery is becoming a function of targeted AI compute, turning software security into a fire hose problem of spend, access, and remediation capacity.