Tech & Automation
Tutorials, engineering notes and industry insight, from Git to PLCs.
AI SEO: Getting Cited by ChatGPT, Gemini & Perplexity (AEO/GEO/LLMO)
Search is quietly becoming answers, and a fistful of new acronyms -- AEO, GEO, LLMO -- has arrived to explain it. Strip away the jargon and the job is simple: be the source the AI quotes. Here is how that actually works.
Video & Visual SEO: Ranking on YouTube & Google Images
A huge share of search is visual -- videos, photos, diagrams, products -- yet most people optimize only their text. Here is how to make your videos and images findable on YouTube and Google Images, without any jargon you cannot use.
Ecommerce SEO: Ranking Products in Shopping Search
Ranking products is not about gaming Google -- it is about giving search engines correct, consistent data and matching each page to what a shopper actually wants. Here is the chain that decides whether your products show up.
Local SEO: Winning Google Maps & Local Search
Local SEO is not a dark art -- it is housekeeping. Get found on Google Maps by being relevant, prominent, and obsessively consistent, and you will hold the local pack while competitors drift off it.
Technical SEO: Making Your Site Crawlable & Indexable
Great content can be invisible to search engines if the plumbing is broken. Technical SEO is that plumbing -- here is how crawling, indexing, speed, and structured data decide whether your pages exist at all.
Traditional SEO: Ranking on Google, Bing & Yandex
SEO is not a bag of tricks you play on Google -- it is the craft of being the best, clearest answer to a question, and then getting out of the search engine's way. Here is how the whole thing actually fits together.
AI-Assisted Software Development
AI can draft code faster than you can read it. That is exactly the problem - and the skill that now separates good engineers from dangerous ones.
Using AI to Scale a Consulting Practice
AI did not replace me. It replaced the version of me that spent half the week on work no client was ever paying for.
Edge Hosting & Modern Deployment
The server you used to babysit has dissolved into a global network -- and shipping software has never been calmer. Here is what changed, and how to think about it.
AI-Assisted IT Support & Automation
AI will not replace your service desk. It will quietly hand the keys to whoever forgets to keep a human in the room.
AI Tutors & Personalized Learning
For forty years we have known one-to-one tutoring works almost magically well, and we could never afford it. Large language models change the math - but only if we remember that the model was never the teacher.
AI Tools for Project Managers
I was skeptical that an AI could help me run a project. A year later it drafts half my paperwork - and I trust it less than ever, in the best possible way.
Applied LLMs & RAG for Engineering Teams
Everyone wants an autonomous AI agent. What actually ships - and works - is the unglamorous part: retrieval. Here's why grounding beats cleverness.
AI & LLM Security: Prompt Injection and Beyond
Large language models broke a rule software security had relied on for decades. Here is what that means for the systems we are all rushing to build.
Agentic Automation: AI Agents for Business Processes
AI agents are not smarter chatbots or fancier macros — they are a third kind of automation, and the teams that win will be the ones who learn exactly where it fits.
AI-Driven Anomaly Detection on the Line
Why catching abnormal behavior in real time is less about the algorithm and more about trust, data discipline, and the cost of being wrong.
Generative AI in Manufacturing Operations
Generative AI will not run your factory - but used with discipline, it becomes the most capable assistant your operations team has ever had.
Building CLI Tools
A command-line tool is a product with users. Treat it like one and it will outlive everything you build around it.
Productizing Your Consulting Services
For years I sold my time and rewrote every proposal from scratch. The day I put a price on one repeatable result, my consulting practice finally started to behave like a business.
Scaling from Solo to Agency
Everyone treats growing an agency as the obvious next step. It is not a step at all - it is a different business, with a different life attached. Here is how to scale on purpose, or to decide, just as deliberately, not to.
Monitoring & Uptime for Web Services
Keeping a website online is not a heroics problem; it is a feedback-loop problem. Here is how a single operator can run a service like a small SRE team, without a war room or a big budget.
Containerized Web Apps with Docker
Containers did not just make web apps easier to build. They quietly rewrote what it means to host one.
Supporting Hybrid & Remote Workforces
The office help desk assumed it could walk over and fix things. When the users scattered, the service desk had to be rebuilt around a single uncomfortable truth - you can never touch the device.
Backup, Recovery & Data Protection
Everyone has backups. Almost nobody has restores. Here is the difference, and why it decides whether a bad day becomes a catastrophe.