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Digital Transformation – Making Sense of Feeds, Nappies, and Chaos
This isn’t a tech tutorial. It’s a reflection on how we moved from hospital clipboards to a digital system that actually helped us care better. If you’re curious about digital transformation but don’t know where to start, this might help you think it through. In hospital, our newborn needed to have some paperwork filled in
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Help me!
With a new baby on its way, I wanted a way for myself or my partner to be able to ask the other for help in a way that was as low intrusive as possible. I happened to know that eventually I want to deploy the Shelly Gen4’s around the house and use Zigbee as
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NTFS 8.3 Naming
If you’ve ever had a developer, tell you that they have secured the access by using long complex, and difficult to guess names such as a GUIDv4 9f8a3c2e-7d4b-4a1f-9b2e-8c3d9e2f1a7b.xlsx you’re not alone. Many developers and websites use this exact strategy to attempt to protect sensitive files. It’s called “security through obscurity,” and while it does not
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Bootstrapping a Secure Software Development Lifecycle – In Legacy Projects P2
In Part 1, I explored the necessary base for a predictable, disciplined Software Development Lifecycle. Now we can really start to layer its secure counterpart – but security doesn’t happen all at once. It’s not philosophical – it is tactical. And it needs to be layered based on readiness, risk, and ROI. This sequence shows
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The Asbestos home builder: Learning from the Mistakes – Strategies for Improvement
Through these posts, I have relayed a situation that I experienced firsthand—how cutting corners in a project can lead to major failures down the line. Part 1 shared the story of Tom the Builder and the shortcuts that turned a simple home project into a costly, hazardous mess. Part 2 – Technical and Part 2
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The Asbestos home builder: The project behind the analogy – Tech Readers
Bridging the Analogy to Reality Tom’s story might seem like just a cautionary tale for construction, but the lessons extend far beyond bricks and mortar. In software development, I’ve seen firsthand how these same shortcuts manifest—with consequences that are just as alarming. Let me share an example from a project I reviewed to illustrate this
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The Asbestos home builder: The project behind the analogy – non-tech readers
Bridging the Analogy to Reality Tom’s story might seem like just a cautionary tale for construction, but the lessons extend far beyond bricks and mortar. In software development, I’ve seen firsthand how these same shortcuts manifest—with consequences that are just as alarming. Let me share an example from a project I reviewed to illustrate this