A software development nerd here. I’ve been working in the ECM world for more years than I want to admit, but my salt & pepper hair betrays my age.
System Fonts are Not Universal For this project, we are building a signature form that uses CSS font-family declarations referencing fonts by name; Lucida Handwriting, Bradley Hand, Brush Script MT, and Segoe Script. These are all proprietary system fonts. When… Read More »Using Fonts in Markup
Federated Search is not only NOT a failing strategy; it is the only viable path for ‘Switzerland’ platforms to provide unified intelligence without forcing risky and expensive data migrations.
start_dev.bat We began this project by bridging the gap between a Microsoft-centric development background and a modern Python stack. To date, we have configured the PowerShell execution policies, initialized the virtual environment, and installed the FastAPI framework alongside the necessary… Read More »Breaking the Monolith: Automating Startup
Premise I am experimenting with creating prompts that can be executed on a regular basis. Is this agentic? I have no idea, but I am trying to get there. This particular task is a pragmatic one; if I need groceries,… Read More »Grocery Shopping Agent
Documenting the Build This is the second article in a series call Breaking the Monolith. Because I want to document this process, I plan to use Gemini to do some writing about this project, so I started a second chat… Read More »Breaking the Monolith: Documenting the process
Building a Solution in a Modern Stack I’ve spent my career in the Microsoft stack. MS SQL, C#, ASPX… a world I know inside out. If I wanted to build a Formula 1 statistics app (F1DB) the “easy” way, I’d… Read More »Breaking the Monolith
Overview When working with complex layouts in HTML, “invisible” spacing issues like nested padding, margin collapse, or rogue containers can be difficult to diagnose with just the browser’s native inspector alone. A lot of folks will use the age old… Read More »One-Line CSS Grid Debugging
I often see a lot of anti-AI chatter on social media, and I think that’s for the most part…totally valid…there is a lot of garbage out there, so much garbage. When I find a good use for ChatGPT where I… Read More »ChatGpt can be used for good
Disclaimer OK, first things first…This project deals with electricity, specifically the cover of a North American receptacle. I am not an electrician. I am not even that bright. Anything I explain here is my own stupidity and if you repeat… Read More »Designing a Wall Plate from Scratch, sort of
I’m new to 3D printing and all the fun that comes with it. Like a lot of folks, I jumped into projects like Gridfinity and Multiboard—plus designed a few things myself. I did alright at first but soon saw that… Read More »Designing a New object in Bambu Studio