Workflow Automation
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#4580: The Tiny AI Tools That Beat Big Agents
Why small, single-purpose AI utilities outperform autonomous agents for daily work — and what interface they need.
#4548: The Hidden Software Running Your Company
Inside the shadow fleet of custom apps running organizations — and how AI is making building them the default.
#4547: Can an AI Agent Fix Your Shopping Cart?
We explore whether an AI agent could kill dark patterns, consolidate orders, and bring enterprise procurement to your home.
#4543: WhatsApp Business API vs App: Which Fits Your Solo Practice?
A solo consultant's guide to choosing between the WhatsApp Business app and the API for client messaging.
#4537: Unboxing the Warehouse: From Joseph's Silos to Slotting Algorithms
From Roman FIFO granaries to gravity flow racks — the unglamorous engineering that keeps civilization fed.
#4522: The Sixth Shim: When MCP Becomes a Middleware Factory
Six servers, six shims, no architecture. A taxonomy of MCP integration pain.
#4477: Structuring Raw Voice Prompts at Scale
How to decompose messy voice dictation into clean, routable components for AI workflows.
#4469: The Missing Protocol for AI Software Development
No one has built a software development protocol designed for AI agents. Here's what that would require.
#4456: Inside the Podcast Pipeline: How 15 Weekly Episodes Get Made
From prompt to published episode — a full walkthrough of the automated production system running 15 shows weekly.
#4453: Workers vs Workflows: Recovering From SSD Failure
When your VPS SSD dies at 3AM, how do you know what broke? A practical guide to self-hosted worker management.
#4443: Terminal Navigation Beyond cd: Favorites, Recents & Agentic Workflows
Why cd isn't broken — our spatial memory is. A tour of zoxide, broot, and what's missing for power users.
#4442: When Prompt Enhancers Hallucinate Your Intent
How to build a prompt enhancer that doesn't rewrite your constraints into oblivion.
#4431: Warehouse Logic for Your Living Room
Industrial pick-to-cart systems, pull signals, and why Daniel's "inbound to sort" box is a staging creep disaster waiting to happen.
#4414: Shared Shopping Carts That Auto-Order
Why cross-device cart sync fails and what it would take to build a system that orders for you.
#4316: How to Build Memory That Survives AI Sessions
Why AI agents forget between sessions — and how to fix it with markdown files instead of black-box memory.
#4296: Auto-Splitting AI Threads: Smarter Context Management
How to build a system that automatically detects topic shifts and routes messages to the right thread.
#4276: Text Expansion Across Devices: The Real Cross-Platform Guide
Espanso vs TextExpander vs Gboard — what actually works when you need snippets on Linux and Android?
#4167: Why AI Can’t Read Your Gmail (Yet)
Your AI misses emails and fails to send replies. It’s not dumb—the pipes are leaky.
#4146: Procurement for Your Apartment? Yes, It's a Thing
What happens when moving boxes turn into a thousand-dollar supply chain? We explore the software gap for home business purchasing.
#4139: The Hosepipe-to-Digest AI: Your Outbox Middleware
An AI middleware that intercepts your outgoing emails, buffers them, and delivers a crisp executive summary.
#4070: How a 15-Minute Stand-Up Can Save Your Move
The daily stand-up format from software teams maps surprisingly well onto managing a chaotic household move.
#3967: What F1 Pit Stops Teach Us About Smarter Procedures
Two elite operations, one surprising set of principles. What airlines and F1 teams know about coordination that most teams don't.
#3940: AI Agents vs. 40-Year-Old EDI: Who Wins in B2B Procurement?
Can AI agents replace the 40-year-old EDI system that still runs trillions in B2B commerce?
#3918: NFC Tags vs. the "We're Out" Button
One tap to restock milk. Why is that so hard to find on Android?