work & play & dev &: job control for the sleep-deprived
You think your life runs `work && play && dev`. You actually try to run `work & play & dev &`, and then a child process forks into the foreground at nice -20...
Frankenstein's ERP: legacy fragmentation horror
Vendors promised the cloud would set you free, but many manufacturers are trapped supporting a Frankenstein ERP that makes IT teams long for the simple days ...
The circle of fix: how to escape the bug-rework loop
A frantic ensemble sings its way around the never-ending bug-fix-outsource-rework loop, plus the three things that actually break the cycle.
Prompts are the new command line
For most of the last forty years, getting real work out of a computer meant learning its syntax. grep, awk, SELECT … JOIN, an Excel formula three screens lon...
From prompts to pipelines: agentic AI in VS Code
If your team already uses an Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistant to explain code or draft a function, you have seen the ceiling: every task starts from a ...
ERP Survivor, episode 1: alliance of the spreadsheet people
Can a Denver back office survive an Enterprise Resource Planning rollout without losing its spreadsheets or its sanity? Episode 1, where the survival lessons...
Remote work three years later: what actually worked
Three years on, here is what held up for Denver-area small businesses and what quietly got abandoned, with the real costs of running a hybrid shop.
AI for small business: what the pilots don't tell you
The AI model is the easy part — most small-business AI projects break on dirty data, unowned workflow change, and recurring cost nobody budgeted for.
The innovation paradox: stupid idea or breakthrough
Bad ideas and breakthrough ideas look identical the day they're proposed — here's how to tell them apart cheaply enough that being wrong doesn't hurt.
Tech news: navigating the digital frontier
How-tos, walk-throughs, and architecture notes on AI, automation, and infrastructure — practical steps first, buzzwords never.