Gap Analysis

You don’t know what you don’t know. Filled in some gaps today. I don’t know if these particular gaps were used by pests found intruding into the home, but per my reading, these are typical likely entry ways, so going to attempt to rule these out for later.

November 9, 2025 · 1 min · 48 words · Michal Piekarczyk

Safety first

I was recently reading this Forbes article1 on a colleague’s recommendation, asking the question, “Why So Many Leaders Say They Want Innovation But Reward Compliance”. The author’s answer is essentially that it is easy to talk about innovation, but because it is less predictable, then safe bets are rewarded by default and a vicious cycle ensues. Innovation is an optical illusion and idea seeds do not get planted. I think there is another answer worth exploring....

November 8, 2025 · 5 min · 910 words · Michal Piekarczyk

Forecast, sunshine and rainbows

I was going through this interesting discussion1 about PI Planning recently, because I’m in the middle of writing2 about the first PI Planning I participated in as well. I have not encountered the hosts before, but I take it that this is a discussion between someone who is represents Scrum, Ryan Ripley and SAFe, Yuval Yeret, respectively. I picked up that Yuval represents the business perspective and when he hears statements like “it’s done when it’s done”, he thinks “not mature”....

November 7, 2025 · (updated November 12, 2025) · 4 min · 650 words · Michal Piekarczyk

Thumbs Up

Who has two thumbnail learnings about hugo blog post images? 😀👍👍 Note that I finally learned how to make hugo blog links sent by imessage have thumbnails and I re-learned how to make hugo blog posts thumbnails show up. So as far as text message thumbnails go, apparently, since my images live on s3, I needed to make sure their content type was image/jpeg because in my case they were binary/octet-stream....

September 29, 2025 · (updated October 5, 2025) · 2 min · 290 words · Michal Piekarczyk

Fix a chipped pint glass

Used sand paper , grade 80 , to get the following before after

September 28, 2025 · 1 min · 13 words · Michal Piekarczyk