The Depth the Recert Can't Test
AWS recertification keeps testing depth in one vendor while the architecture work that matters has become depth across the joins.
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Three Apps, One Feed
A disrupted London journey, three travel apps, and the difference between confident presentation and trustworthy source data.
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The Why Leaves With the Person
Legacy systems and prompt-built systems share the same risk: the output can survive long after the reasoning behind it has disappeared.
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The Hold That Used to Be Free
Why deferring hardware refreshes no longer feels like a free hold when replacement costs are rising in the background.
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I Think It Does This
Preparing AI training surfaced the difference between knowing a tool and carrying around assumptions that only survive until you have to explain them.
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Sora Broke My Deprecation Reflex
Sora's shutdown was a reminder that SaaS deprecation dates do not always behave like enterprise software timelines.
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Automation Keeps Hitting the Same Wall
Zapier, RPA, and AI agents keep running into the same contract gap between orchestration tools and applications that were not built to be automated cleanly.
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A DR Plan Is a Hypothesis You've Never Tested
A failed backup story about why disaster recovery plans, fault injection, and restore tests only matter once someone has proved the recovery path works.
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A Week on a Three-Week-Old Keyboard
A week with Yaps showed where on-device voice typing works, where the real world gets in the way, and how quickly a three-week-old keyboard can improve.
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Back on Windows With Mac Habits
A week back on an old Windows laptop showed what Windows 11 still gets right, what still gets in the way, and how much macOS muscle memory has started to stick.
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