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Let’s Talk About Remediation

Post category:AI AI and Government AI for Business AI, General Default
Post last modified:October 20, 2025
Reading time:11 mins read

So, I know that everyone that has dealt with standards has the same deep, innate respect for the PDF format that I do. Just like the OSI 7 layer networking model, the PDF has gracefully grown over time. Well thought out, without any accumulated cruft, the PDF stands tall as the format every one of us points to as - "That's what I want to be when I grow up." And then I wake up and change my t-shirt from the cold sweat that has soaked through. (We're just going to go ahead and break the fourth wall here, because the next number is hard to joke about.) I was doing some research, and I wanted to make some joke about the number of PDFs out there, and then I saw…

Understanding PDF Remediation: Making Digital Documents Accessible to Everyone

Post category:AI and Government AI for Business AI, General Default
Post last modified:October 19, 2025
Reading time:26 mins read

Summary PDF Remediation is the comprehensive process of transforming PDF documents to ensure they can be accessed, navigated, and understood by all users, including people with disabilities who rely on assistive technology. This involves not just adding structural tags, but also addressing document organization, color contrast, text readability, logical flow, and overall usability. With an estimated 2.5 trillion PDFs in circulation worldwide and 98% of businesses using PDF as their primary document-sharing format, the scale of the accessibility challenge is staggering—and urgent. This guide provides essential information for anyone responsible for creating, maintaining, or publishing digital content. If you manage your organization's website or digital document library, you've likely encountered questions like "Why do PDFs need to be accessible?" "What exactly is PDF remediation?" and "How do tags work?" This overview…

Building an MCP Server for Google Apps Script: From Problem to Solution

Post category:Default
Post last modified:July 21, 2025
Reading time:8 mins read

How I created a comprehensive clasp MCP server and adapted another for Google Apps Script development What is Google Apps Script? For those unfamiliar, Google Apps Script is Google's cloud-based JavaScript platform that lets you extend and automate Google Workspace applications like Sheets, Docs, Gmail, and Drive. Think of it as "VBA for Google" - you can write scripts that automatically process spreadsheets, send emails, create documents, and build web apps, all running on Google's servers without needing your own hosting. The best part? Google provides generous free quotas that let you run thousands of automation tasks daily at zero cost. You can schedule scripts to run every minute, process hundreds of emails, manipulate large spreadsheets, and serve web applications - all within the free tier. For small businesses and individual…

Comet First Impressions

Post category:AI for Business
Post last modified:July 18, 2025
Reading time:12 mins read

This is a little note talking about the new AI-powered browser "Comet" from Perplexity.ai. Comet basically smooshes (technical term) together the information processing of Perplexity with the Chromium browser engine and an "agent" assistant that can act on your behalf to achieve various goals. Comet Components There's really a couple parts to this. There's the basic "I'm a browser!" stuff that you know and love. There's a "I'm Perplexity right there in your task bar, hear me roar!" - also familiar territory. Then there's 2 other new pieces, and these are the two that I feel set this system apart. The agent assistant. This is more than just an integrated chatbot, like with what you get with something like a Gemini sidebar. Sure, it does integrated-chatbot-things like answer your questions. But,…

10 Weird Jeweler Hammers (and Their AI Analogs)

Post category:AI, General Creativity
Post last modified:July 18, 2025
Reading time:11 mins read

Let us consider the world of famous hammers. I bet you didn't think your day was going to consider that, now did you? Mjölnir – Thor’s hammer from Norse mythology (and Marvel movies); returns when thrown. Stormbreaker (basically Mjölnir v2). We have the gavel, symbolizing justice; and we have the hammer and sickle (the hammer symblizing industry in the proletarian synergy of industrial worker and agricultural worker). We have Warhammer (the game) and M.C. Hammer (Stop! Hammertime!). Hmmm. That's pretty much all I got. Anyhow. I'm learning about lapidary (gemstone) and silversmith art. A big part of silver is beating the snot out of the silver, forcing it into various unnatural configurations. Wanna watch something oddly amazing - youtube someone "raising" a teapot from a sheet of silver. There's a lot…

Anthropic, You Wouldn’t Download a Car, Would You?

Post category:AI for Business
Post last modified:June 5, 2025
Reading time:6 mins read

Reddit sued Anthropic (maker of Claude AI) for allegedly scraping Reddit's content over 100,000 times without permission or payment, despite having licensing agreements with OpenAI and Google that involve proper compensation. So, normally, I'd kinda be like "whatever - AI companies gonna pirate (yarrr), content companies gonna sue." And I still kind of feel that way, but this is slightly different. There's a bit of a brand conflict happening that I find interesting. Allow me to sum this up in one quote: “I think our existence in the ecosystem hopefully causes other organizations to become more like us. That’s been our general aim in the world and part of our theory of change.” — Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic. Mhm. Maybe this needs another quote. “Trust is earned in drops and…

Bent-Nosed Pliers: 90 degrees off.

Post category:Tools
Post last modified:June 5, 2025
Reading time:4 mins read

**image courtesy of a patient cat and a steady hand. No cats were harmed durning the writing of this post. Image above: "Using bent-nosed pliers to test if your cat is pointy." I'm learning how to work with gems and silver. It's something I've wanted to do since I was a kid, and, well, no time like the middle age to do something. There's a number of specialized tools, and they're cool, so, why not share. Bent-nosed pliers are the first I want to share. At first, they seem like an unnecessary complexity to what is basically the Platonic ideal of a tool: pliers. Two sticks, held together with a hinge, giving you a levered mechanical advantage that you can use to pinch something and thus manipulate it in various ways.…

Business Useful Prompts: Churn Analysis

Post category:AI for Business
Post last modified:June 3, 2025
Reading time:6 mins read

Churn, the bane of any subscription business. What if GenAI could help you with this? Since I'm asking what is clearly a rhetorical question, we can be pretty sure that the answer is "wait no more! It can!" This is the first in what is going to be many useful LLM/Chatbot prompts for business use. What I have been seeing is that there's all kinds of prompting guides, but they tend to be fairly generic and high-level in scope. This isn't necessarily bad it's useful to understand what a GATE prompt is and when you should use it, but I wanted to take a much more actionable..."will this help me solve my problem?" Perspective. But so differently, I want to start from the solution and then give you the prompt. In…

E – Execution, SMART GEAR Unpacked: Turning AI Plans into Action

Post category:AI, General
Post last modified:May 28, 2025
Reading time:4 mins read

Execution is the SMART GEAR component that makes things happen. After all, a brilliant plan isn’t worth pixels if it never leaves the digital drawing board. Execution turns intent into outcome, seamlessly managing tasks from inception through completion. It's how your AI moves from simply suggesting what to do to actively doing it. An agent with strong execution skills manages dependencies effortlessly. It doesn't get stuck or confused—it handles tasks in the right order, catches exceptions gracefully, and coordinates across multiple tools or workflows. And when the unexpected happens (which it always does), it knows exactly how to pivot and keep going. Enhancements & Further Examples:Consider an automated DevOps pipeline. An AI agent responsible for execution could take a newly committed piece of code, automatically run it through a series of…

R – Reasoning, SMART GEAR Unpacked: AI’s Real “Thinking” Process

Post category:AI, General
Post last modified:June 5, 2025
Reading time:3 mins read

Reasoning is the culmination of everything else in SMART GEAR. It’s logic and inference—AI’s way of thinking things through. Reasoning involves connecting cause and effect, weighing alternatives, making informed decisions, and navigating uncertainty. It’s what transforms data-driven insights into thoughtful, strategic choices. Imagine a legal research AI. It examines complex cases, identifies relevant precedents, evaluates different legal theories, and offers clearly reasoned recommendations. This isn’t keyword matching—it’s thoughtful, logical decision-making. While complex, human-level reasoning is still the domain of AGI research, current AI can perform sophisticated logical inference within specific domains. For instance, an AI system for optimizing a complex manufacturing process might reason about the interplay of dozens of variables (machine settings, material quality, ambient temperature) to deduce the root cause of a production defect and recommend corrective actions. It…

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