Articles on open-source tools, infra, and dev practices.
AI gets pushed into high-stakes roles by pressure from people and from the systems themselves. Heavy reliance erodes the human skills needed to check or replace those systems — atrophy is the amplifier that makes it hard to undo.
No jargon, no assumed tech knowledge — what a web browser actually is, what an extension adds to it, and why workflow tools would live inside a browser at all.
No jargon, no assumed tech knowledge — what tools like Jira, Monday.com, and Salesforce are actually for, before any specific feature.
No jargon, no assumed tech knowledge — what a 'project management tool' actually does, explained the way you'd explain it to a friend who's never used one.
Google Workspace onboarding and offboarding as tracked, checklist-driven work — one status change spins up the Google task, the IT ticket, and the manager email it actually requires. Importable as an OpenTechnologyApp project template.
External requests land in a no-login portal, go through triage and approval, and only then become work — kept structurally separate from the sprint board so a client's ask never jumps the queue. Six queues, ten automations, two dashboards, built into OpenTechnologyApp.
Three queues for everything a public site generates — outages, traffic snapshots, and inbound contact-form submissions — sized to fit OpenTechnologyApp's free tier. One connection is fully automatic; the other two are yours to wire or fill by hand.
Ships today as OpenTechnologyApp's built-in Extend Platform — Stream + Content Ops template: one place to track machines, tools, health checks, control commands, and render jobs across OBS, ComfyUI, Blender, and more.
A Salesforce, Jira, and Monday.com alternative in one app — client portal, live dashboards, automations, and easy-to-use project templates for device management, access, and PM.
A practical business guide to Brave Browser — privacy-first, Chrome-compatible, and a drop-in upgrade for your team.
