About the author
Ken W Alger
@kenwalger
Developer educator and advocate who still ships code. 15 years teaching developers at MongoDB, Heroku, Cisco, and Treehouse. Now writing about AI-assisted development, agent memory, and provenance.
Oregon
Jun 16
Expanding the Sovereign AI Stack: Moving the Specification from Gateway to Local Silicon
When I first introduced the Sovereign Systems Specification and released the initial foundation of...
Jun 11
The Death of Note-Taking and the Rise of the Digital Scribe
In our previous series, we built the Sovereign Vault to verify truth in existing records. But as we...
Jun 10
MCP Is the USB-C of AI. So Why Are You Plugging Everything In?
Where this fits: This article extends the Zero-Glue series. If you haven't read The End of Glue Code:...
Jun 9
Sovereign Synapse: The Local Brain
A vault of 3,150 Markdown files is just a very organized digital attic. It’s a repository of every...
Jun 29
The Long Way Around
For most of my professional life, I assumed I had a collection of unrelated careers. Over the years...
Jun 5
The Context Compression Pattern
Pattern Defined Precise Definition: Context Compression is an inference pattern that...
Jun 4
The Sovereign Vault — A Comprehensive Guide to Protocol-Driven AI
We have spent the last several weeks dismantling the traditional "Glue Code" approach to AI and...
Jun 3
Operating Real-Time AI: SLAs, Observability, and Knowing When It's Broken
The previous four posts in this series covered the three architectural pillars of real-time AI at...
Jun 2
Sovereign Synapse: The Context-Cleaner
(Curation is Sovereignty) Sovereign Synapse Series | Post 2 AI is polite by design. It...
May 29
Shipping Sovereign SDK: Cryptographic Forensic Receipts and the End of the AI "Prose Tax"
As I've been working through my content on Sovereign Systems and Inference Patterns, I find that we,...
May 28
The Sovereign Vault: Building High-Integrity AI with MCP & Local Vision
Over the last several weeks, we’ve built a Sovereign Vault—a forensic system that uses the Model...
May 27
Beyond the Hype: Announcing the Open Source Sovereign Systems Specification & Pattern Library
We are currently building AI-native applications inside a linguistic and architectural vacuum. Over...