- Sep 23, 2026
Setting Up Local Routines with AI Agents: What Worked and What Didn't
Moving back-office jobs from "a person does this every morning" to "an agent does it, a person checks the summary", and what did and did not work.
6 min read · AI Agents · Claude Code · Automation · Lessons Learned
- Sep 20, 2026
IProcessor for GMD Stores: From Vendor Invoice to Store Shelf in One Web App
A tour of IProcessor: vendor invoice PDFs parsed automatically, reconciled against purchase orders, received in the warehouse with RFID pick-and-pack checks and Zebra labels, and reported on for margins.
6 min read · .NET · Automation · Case Study
- Sep 7, 2026
Building a Real-Time Ticket Listings Monitor in Python: From Legacy .NET to a Lean Alerting Pipeline
Porting a ticket-listings monitor from legacy .NET to a lean Python service: a proof-of-work bot challenge in pure code, "what is new" decided in SQL Server, and Slack alerts within seconds.
5 min read · Python · Automation · Integration
- Sep 2, 2026
Automating a Weekly Inventory Workflow with Power Automate Desktop
Automating a weekly StubHub research routine with Power Automate Desktop: repeatable browser filters, an Excel work list, a state file for the weekly cycle, and the choices that let it run unattended.
4 min read · Power Automate · Automation · Case Study
- Aug 28, 2026
Syncing Lysted → SkyBox Through Slack: When an HTML Email Is the Only API
A sales platform with no webhooks and no usable order API: parsing "tickets sold" HTML emails out of Slack to record sales in SkyBox, plus automatic settlement reconciliation.
3 min read · Integration · Automation · .NET
- Aug 22, 2026
Building an Automation Hub for a Ticket-Resale Business in .NET
One .NET console app, dispatched by command-line argument and driven by Task Scheduler, that connects more than 10 systems for a ticket-resale business: POS, marketplaces, banking, Slack and an AI that reads email.
3 min read · .NET · Automation · Integration · Case Study
Archive
Working notes from 2021–2022: AWS, Azure and Power Automate, kept for reference.
- Aug 3, 2021
Power Automate business case: Slack alerts from Azure SQL
Posting alerts to Slack with Power Automate when a stored procedure in Azure SQL finds rows that hit the criteria.
1 min read · Power Automate · Automation
- Jul 14, 2021
Power Automate business case: shared mailbox attachments to SharePoint
A Power Automate flow that watches a shared mailbox for expense reports, saves attachments to a SharePoint library and marks each email read and complete.
1 min read · Power Automate · Automation
- Jul 10, 2021
Power Automate business case: a holiday request flow
A holiday request flow built from Microsoft Forms, Teams, Power Automate and Exchange: the form, the manager lookup, the approval and the condition, with screenshots.
1 min read · Power Automate · Automation