Coverage of technology developments, tools, and trends relevant to writers and professionals. Examines how technology shapes work, communication, and daily life, with perspective from 20 years in IT leadership.
SEOGoogle's Core Web Vitals are three numbers that measure how your website feels: the wait at the door, the ignored question, and the moving shelf. What each one means, how to diagnose them with Search Console, PageSpeed Insights, and GTmetrix,…
TechnologyMy consultant called while I was driving to a Renaissance fair: the power had failed, the generator had not come on, one UPS was missing, a coin-sized battery had died, the DR link had been down for two days, and…
TechnologyThe system that worked yesterday would not come up today, and there were no logs to explain why, because the failure was the logging. We spent three days awake hunting an earthquake. The cause was a punctuation mark, and the…
TechnologyLightning fried a computer room around me. Backhoes cut my DR links. A tabletop exercise with a truck bomb and an active shooter taught a room of professionals that half of them could not authorize anything. Twenty years of disaster…
TechnologyThe consultant's heroics got the disks back. Then came the part the first article only promised: bringing up applications that had been written on the assumption they would never stop. No restart procedures, no known states, dependencies documented in nobody's…
Artificial IntelligenceYou have heard the website is dead and AI is where traffic goes. It is exactly backwards. AI engines do not invent answers; they pull from sources, and a strong, well-structured site is the source they quote. That is what…
Artificial IntelligenceAI search makes your website matter more, and it is also broken in ways nobody selling it will admit: opaque, slow to update, confidently wrong about you with no appeal, and corruptible by competitors. It is worth pursuing and badly…
Artificial IntelligenceThe old web was better, or it was always chaos, both takes miss the point. The early web was built by individuals, and discovery ran on human curiosity rather than corporate budgets. Then money took over: SEO buried the little…
AdviceThe U.S. government switched off Anthropic's most powerful AI models overnight, proving in a single stroke that nobody who uses AI actually owns it. If your business runs on a rented tool, whoever controls it can change the deal or…
GhostwritingIf you are technical and weighing a memoir, your biggest fear is that a ghostwriter will not understand your world and will flatten your career into something unrecognizable. That fear is correct, most will. The fix is one who actually…
Artificial IntelligenceIn 2013, 3D printing was going to dissolve manufacturing, a printer in every home, download a hammer instead of buying one, supply chains gone in five years. None of it happened; it quietly found its real lane in prototyping. AI…
Artificial IntelligenceIn 1980 a snow-locked water district faced a problem the era's technology could not solve: pumping stations cut off from central command for weeks each winter, with the water still needing to flow. The team built autonomous controllers in Pascal…
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