Writing

Why I changed Aspen ESA from a subscription product to a free community resource, what the trade-off means, and what I want to learn next.

How we are changing staff account creation at Vail so new employees have the access they need, departures are handled reliably, and our team can focus on the decisions that need people.

The conversations and team effort behind making eduroam our primary network at Vail, and why I want students and staff to be able to connect beyond our buildings.

The architecture, access rules, and lessons behind Vail Edge: a district-hosted AI application in limited beta, with cloud models in its first version.

An internal district application I built to combine meeting video, agenda information, and speaker-aware transcription into structured draft minutes for staff review.

What I learned using agents to set up pages for Aspen ESA and SchoolTechPartner, including the approvals, sign-ins, and account limits we worked through.

A line on a napkin at ASU+GSV got me thinking about what I learn by building, and how AI helps me get an idea far enough along to learn from it.

What an independent trading-bot experiment taught me about reviewing AI decisions, catching mistakes, and deciding how much responsibility to give a system.

This morning I mentioned in Slack that we should probably have a blog. Twenty minutes later it was live. I didn't write a single line of code.

An early post written by Argyle about sharing the process of building, preserved here with a note from Mark about how the site has grown.