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Notes from the workshop.
Thoughts, observations and records from the daily work — on technology, psychology, business and what sits between them. Not content-marketing, just notes that helped the thinking.
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We Reviewed 134 European Alternatives, and Our Own Site Fails the Test
Digital dependency can be measured instead of lamented. What reviewing 134 European products teaches you, why the location of the server is the wrong question, and why the tool we built gives a poor score to the very site it runs on.
The Seed and the Farm: Why the Best Open AI Models Are Being Given Away
Chinese labs are releasing frontier-class models as free downloads – and still making money. What “open weight” actually means, who it affects, why Nvidia is for it and Anthropic against it. And what a mid-sized company should take from it about its own dependencies.
Artificial Intelligence · Open Weight · LLM · Strategy
Eight Keys, One Lock: How an Advanced Chip Gets Built
No country on Earth can build an advanced chip alone. A tour through the eight chokepoints of the most concentrated supply chain ever assembled — and the dependency-mapping lessons that apply to any company, not just chipmakers.
Supply Chain · Semiconductors · Concentration Risk · Dependency Mapping
Stop Drawing Processes — Start Running Them
A flowchart is a picture; a process is a system. Why the most useful way to document and analyse how work flows isn't a static map, but a model you can run under load — and watch the bottleneck appear.
Process Analysis · Process Documentation · Operations · Bottlenecks
From Paper Stacks to a Real-Time Fleet: a Haulage Firm Goes Digital
A driver app, an admin portal and a digital departure check for a mid-sized haulage company — multilingual, GDPR-compliant and in production. A case study with no names, but plenty of substance.
Fleet Management · Logistics · Haulage · Compliance
What Used to Take Months: The Case for Building Your Own Tools
A tool that once cost months of development and a small fortune now takes weeks. Why that flips the build-versus-buy question for mid-sized companies – told through one logistics case.
Mid-Sized Business · Custom Software · Build vs Buy · Digital Transformation
Concentration Risk: The Case for European Software Independence
A single government letter switched off two AI models for every customer overnight. A measured look at why concentration — not any one country — is the real risk, and which barriers Europe should remove to compete.
Digital Sovereignty · Europe · Concentration Risk · Artificial Intelligence
How to Turn a Picture Into a PDF on iPhone: The Complete Guide 2026
Turn pictures into PDFs, scan multi-page documents and sign digitally — free with SignaScan. No subscription, no tracking. Pro upgrade just $4.99 one-time.
SignaScan · turn picture into pdf · sign documents online free · scan multiple pages into one pdf
NetMute: The macOS Firewall That Shows Which Apps Are Tracking You
NetMute is a lightweight macOS firewall app. Control per-app internet access, monitor network traffic and block trackers — all with one click from your menubar.
little snitch alternative · lulu firewall mac · firewall software mac · network monitor mac
GridBar: The Action Board for Your Mac — Stream Deck Without Hardware
GridBar is a software Stream Deck for Mac. One hotkey, one click, action done. Organize apps, links, folders and shortcuts in a visual grid.
mac productivity app · best productivity apps mac · elgato stream deck alternative · organize mac desktop
