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Notes from the team on regulated software, mission-critical operations, and the craft of shipping under audit.
27 Sep 2026 / by Gabriel Tanguay
The testing suite proves what you specified. The bugs live in what you did not.
Mapping out everything a feature can do is a writing problem, and we already hand a good part of it to small, fast models. Walking through all of it is a judgement problem, and that is where a new shape of model, one that answers yes-or-no in a quarter of a second, starts to get interesting.
23 Aug 2026 / by Gabriel Tanguay
What you cannot specify, you will overpay for
Enterprise architecture and a first pass at requirements decide what a project costs before any vendor quotes. The same document decides, at the other end, whether what arrives can actually be accepted. Those two ends are worth owning. The middle is worth buying.
5 Jul 2026 / by Gabriel Tanguay
The cheapest kilowatt-hour is the one nobody spends
Our office runs on rooftop solar since this year. In our trade, though, the bigger lever is not where the electricity is bought but how the system is built.
14 May 2026 / by Gabriel Tanguay
Tested isn't tested
One kind ticks a Jira box. The other runs at every step toward release. With AI accelerating development teams, organizations that don't speed up testing in step are losing control - usually without noticing.
28 Apr 2026 / by Gabriel Tanguay
Why we host in Switzerland and the EU
The CLOUD Act, digital sovereignty, and what 'Swiss made' really means for hosting.
15 Oct 2025 / by Gabriel Tanguay
What Word, Grammarly, and ChatGPT do with your team's text
Four quiet data-egress paths most companies have never audited - in Word, in Grammarly, in VS Code, and in LLM chats.
21 Jan 2025 / by Gabriel Tanguay
Identity and Access Management Made Easy
Managing Identity and Access for your Digital Brand
25 Aug 2024 / by Gabriel Tanguay
New Product Online: The Mail Adaptor
Leverage your Microsoft 365 account to send email with your applications
15 Jul 2024 / by Gabriel Tanguay
My own AI?
What would be the efficient gains for my organization if we had our own AI?
1 Jul 2024 / by Gabriel Tanguay
Remaining Secure
Steadily providing trusted and secure application on the wide wild web
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