Microenterprises, typically defined as businesses with fewer than 10 employees, face unique challenges in the digital space. The decision to adopt custom software is pivotal. Business owners should consider the following choices. 🤔 Buy vs. Build Dilemma * 𝗢𝗽𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗢𝗳𝗳-𝘁𝗵𝗲-𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲: If existing software meets about 70% of your needs, adapting it is

Previously, I talked about shifting from builder to technical leader. How can you scratch your maker's itch while empowering your team? 🫂 Embracing Your New Role: Beyond Building Your team is growing, and people management tasks are piling up. You're no longer concerned with how to build things yourself but with

I was astonished when I reviewed the CI process of a promising scale-up with a complex technological product and found these instant red flags: * GitHub actions that hadn't run for two years * A testing suite with more tests failing than succeeding * A passing build despite the failing test suite Despite

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Home Assistant is a fantastic platform. I've been sucked into it for quite some time. Creating the dashboards is fun, but finishing them is very difficult. They are a constant work in progress and take quite some time to get right. In the end, the results can be stunning. But

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It wasn't my intention when I started the first article but this has become a series of how to run node applications in production with IIS on Windows. These are the previous articles on the topic: * Hosting a Node.js application on Windows with IIS as reverse proxy * Using HTTP

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There are always situations where I want to automate small tasks. I like using Python for these kind of things, you can quickly get something working without much hassle. I needed to perform some database changes in a Microsoft SQL Server database and wanted to connect to it using Python.