About Bitspace

The person behind it

I’m Chris Woods. Bitspace is where I keep my independent projects and writing.

I’ve been building software systems since 1993, from the hacker and maker scene of the mid-90s through two decades of enterprise engineering. My work has taken me through distributed systems, cybersecurity, regulatory constraints, and the everyday business of making complicated things run reliably.

This is a place to follow the questions that keep my attention, try ideas in code, and share what I learn. The projects and the writing are two parts of the same process.

What keeps me interested

I’m interested in systems that people can understand, inspect, and change. Open interfaces, durable data, and the ability to replace a component matter because the work tends to outlive the tools.

AI gives those old engineering questions some new edges. What context should a tool receive? What should stay local? What did an agent actually do, and what did it cost? Those are questions I can work on by building things and using them.

DYFJ is the current public project. The writing follows both the technical decisions and the wider questions they raise.

A note is welcome

If something here connects with your own work, I’d be glad to hear about it.