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Beyond Individual Blame. Systemic Solutions

The recent revelations about high-level government officials accidentally sharing sensitive military information through Signal highlight a critical intersection of personal responsibility and systemic security vulnerabilities. 404 rightly emphasizes individual accountability, but overlooks two crucial protective strategies: multi-person authentication and comprehensive federal regulations on secure communications. One fundamental defense against human

Reimagining Publishing in the Modern Media Landscape

Publishing faces a critical digital transformation challenge, requiring executives who bridge traditional journalism and modern digital strategies. Developing user-centered digital products that maintain the core principles of quality reporting is the next challenge.

The Attention Crisis

Remember when important discussions happened in meetings or through carefully crafted emails? What once would have been a focused 30-minute conversation has morphed into dozens of notifications spread across hours or days. Business chat platforms delivered fragmentation. A single discussion might span multiple threads, requiring participants to piece together context

Be Google, be me.

Be Google Have more data than God Sell ads like my life depends on it (because it does) Know what you want before you do "Don’t be evil" lol AI overlord in the making Everyone hates me, but everyone needs me Incognito mode doesn’t mean what

Web Development

Astro is the ideal lightweight framework to build content websites

Web Development. Content websites, blogs, simple marketing websites can all benefit from a simpler development experience to achieve a finely tuned presentation.

Virtual Machines

Run Ubuntu 24.0.4 on Windows Hyper-V virtual machines

Hyper-V manager is included in Windows 10 and Windows 11 Pro computers and running the latest LTS Ubuntu desktop is very easy. Upon installation, Linux won’t have all the necessary drivers to take full advantage of the virtualization features of Windows in the Linux guest.

Privacy

Getting out of the Google ecosystem

Cutting the Google cord is more difficult than expected but the reward is to be part of something better, more user-centric and most importantly privacy-respecting.

Product Management

Product backlog estimation and refinement with Story Points

Story Points can help making better user story estimates than time-based estimation. Agile sprint planning benefits from estimating risk, uncertainty and complexity.