Tech & Automation
Tutorials, engineering notes and industry insight, from Git to PLCs.
Debugging Like a Pro
Great debuggers are not smarter than you. They just refuse to guess.
Testing & TDD Essentials
Tests aren't insurance you buy after the fact. Written first, they're the cheapest design tool you have.
Contracts & Legal Basics for Consultants
The contract is not the thing that ends the friendship. It is the thing that keeps it.
Discovery & Requirements Gathering
The most expensive code is the code that perfectly solves the wrong problem. Discovery is how you make sure that never happens.
WordPress Hosting & Management
WordPress made publishing easy for everyone - but the easy part ends where hosting begins. Here is how to own your site without being owned by it.
Static Site Generators
The web spent two decades building servers to assemble pages on demand. It turns out most of us never needed them.
Remote Support Tools & Techniques
Remote support runs on the same software scammers use. What makes you trustworthy is not the tool, but consent, restraint, and a record of what you did.
Active Directory & User Management
Active Directory quietly decides who you are and what you can touch every time you sign in at work - here is why that invisible referee is worth understanding.
Building Hands-On Labs & Exercises
Most technical training fails not because the content is wrong, but because learners never get their hands dirty. Here is how to design labs that turn watching into doing.
Microlearning & Bite-Sized Content
Microlearning gets dismissed as the fast food of training, but the problem was never the small portions, it was the empty calories.
Estimation & Planning Techniques
Estimates fail for predictable reasons. Here is how to forecast work as a range, plan with honest buffers, and update as you learn.
Kanban for Knowledge Work
Knowledge work hides in tickets, inboxes, and people's heads. Kanban drags it into the light, caps how much you juggle at once, and lets the math of flow do the rest.
Practical Big Data Analytics
Everyone wants to say they work with big data. The freeing truth is that almost nobody does - and that means your laptop is more powerful than you think.
Data Visualization Principles
A good chart is not the one with the most colors or the fanciest 3-D effect. It is the one a reader understands correctly in five seconds. Here is how to make those.
Intro to Statistics for Analysts
You already work with data every day. Here are the five statistical ideas that will stop the numbers from quietly misleading you.
Containers with Docker
Containers promise to end "it works on my machine" for good. Here is what Docker actually does, why it caught on, and how to think about it before you type your first command.
Connecting Git with Personal Access Tokens | 02x00.04-02
Source Code Management (SCM) is the practice of tracking and managing changes to code throughout its lifecycle.
Object Storage & Data in the Cloud
A bucket is the cheapest thing in the cloud to create and one of the easiest to get wrong. Here is the story of one folder of holiday photos, and how it quietly teaches you everything that matters about storing data in the cloud.
Advanced Ubuntu Terminal Commands | 02x01.06-01
Ten advanced Ubuntu terminal commands every power user should know, from grep, awk and sed to rsync, tmux, cron, ssh, find and docker.
Cloud Foundations for Engineers
The old joke says the cloud is just someone else's computer. It is right - and once you take that literally, everything about cloud engineering starts to make sense.
OT Cybersecurity Essentials
In the plant, a cyber incident is not just lost data -- it is a valve that won't close and a line that won't stop. Here is why OT security belongs to safety engineers as much as to IT.
Network Security Basics (Firewalls & VPN)
Firewalls and VPNs sound like enterprise jargon, but the ideas behind them are simple and within reach for any small network. Here is how to think about defending one.
Building a Digital Transformation Roadmap
Most digital transformations do not fail at the keyboard. They fail on a slide deck that confused a list of projects with a plan. Here is how to build a roadmap that actually steers.
RPA: Robotic Process Automation Basics
A software robot that clicks and types like a person can connect systems nothing else can reach - and break the moment one of those systems moves a button. Here is how to tell when a bot is the right answer, and when it is an expensive mistake.