Hi! My name is Einar W. Høst. I am a Norwegian software developer and architect.

I write a blog and do talks at conferences. I’m interested in domain-driven design, collaborative modelling, API design, and the Web. I have a Ph.D. in Computer Science.

I enjoy Advent of Code. I have made some visualizations.

I have published my own hype cycles for agile, artificial intelligence and enterprise architecture.

You can find me on Mastodon and BlueSky, even LinkedIn.

Latest blog posts

• 2026-04-15

  I refuse to play the imitation game
  Playing Turing's imitation game 24/7 sucks. But the good news is we don't have to. We can just walk away and do our thing.

• 2026-03-22

  The asymmetry of politeness
  Politeness is supposed to be symmetric. That is, reciprocal between people. But unfortunately it's not always like that.

• 2026-03-20

  Toe tags for JSON blobs
  How do we deal with schemaless JSON documents in applications that continually evolve? I propose attaching a toe tag to each document, linking it to an explicit and immutable schema.