# Type II Fun — Simon Mayes

> Writing by Simon Mayes, a UK-based software engineer and solo-founder of Untether (a digital-minimalism software company). The work here is about software quality as a behaviour, developer experience, AI-augmented software development, and architecture patterns for building things simply.

## Articles

- [Software Quality Is Not Cyber Security](https://type2fun.net/software-quality-is-not-cyber-security) ([MD](https://type2fun.net/software-quality-is-not-cyber-security.md)): AI gets you functional code. Quality-conscious prompting gets you further. But that's only 30% of the security controls — the other 70% aren't in your codebase.
- [Keep the screen in your pocket](https://type2fun.net/keep-the-screen-in-your-pocket) ([MD](https://type2fun.net/keep-the-screen-in-your-pocket.md)): Don't ditch the smartphone — reconfigure your relationship with it. Use a constrained smartwatch, shift essential interaction to it, and keep your phone out of sight.
- [Stop generating, start rendering: personal apps backed by your System of Record](https://type2fun.net/personal-apps-backed-by-your-system-of-record) ([MD](https://type2fun.net/personal-apps-backed-by-your-system-of-record.md)): AI spews static artefacts that rot the moment you edit. Stop duplicating — vibe-code disposable apps that render live views from your System of Record.
- [Vibe-coding shareable, infinitely scalable personal apps](https://type2fun.net/infinitely-scalable-personal-apps) ([MD](https://type2fun.net/infinitely-scalable-personal-apps.md)): Build genuinely useful, AI-powered personal apps with no backend at all — a static site, OAuth PKCE to the providers you already use, and OpenRouter for the smarts.
- [Software Quality: Adopting Common Industry Language](https://type2fun.net/software-quality-as-a-discipline) ([MD](https://type2fun.net/software-quality-as-a-discipline.md)): Engineers don't talk about software quality — they get stuck arguing about test types. A case for the discipline, in plain language.
- [Introducing the AWS GitLab Helper](https://type2fun.net/introducing-the-aws-gitlab-helper) ([MD](https://type2fun.net/introducing-the-aws-gitlab-helper.md)): A tool for GitLab Pipelines to fetch temporary credentials, secrets, and parameters from AWS using ABAC.

## About

- [About Simon Mayes](https://type2fun.net/about): Background — software engineer, solo-founder of Untether, climber.
- [Advisory](https://type2fun.net/advisory): Advisory engagements on software quality, developer experience, and AI-augmented development.

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