Insights

Writing from the work, not from a content calendar.

These notes come from building operational software: inventory, hospitality, costing, and modernization. They are not disguised sales pages.

Operations

When a spreadsheet is no longer an inventory system

2026-09-06

Spreadsheets are a reasonable start. They become a problem when stock, approvals, and exceptions live in too many places for one person to reconstruct.

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Hospitality

Restaurant software has to survive service, not just look like a menu

2026-09-06

A menu is an operational object. If availability, modifiers, and routing are not in the product, the kitchen and the guest both work around it.

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Food production

Recipe costing belongs in operations, not in a side spreadsheet

2026-09-06

A recipe is not only instructions. It is ingredients, yields, cost, and the production implication for every outlet the kitchen supplies.

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Engineering

Modernize an Angular application without throwing the product away

2026-09-06

An older application can still be the right product. The work is to make it usable, maintainable, and safe to change — not to rebuild it from a blank file for the sake of novelty.

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