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A correctly categorized ledger can still produce a wrong tax return. The escrow money never reached my books, and one property needs three numbers.

I spent $758 on ISACA's AI audit certification. The $249 question bank was necessary. Free videos and the systems I had already built are what got me through.

A bank's frontline knew its AI wasn't working long before the tribunal did. Ten years earlier I ignored the same kind of warning about a day in the park.

Four domains, two stale accounts, and about $246 a year I had never once audited. Plus the DNS record inventory I now build before touching anything.

My publish control ran its protocol correctly every time, and four articles still fell off my site. Nothing in the loop had ever opened a file.

I spent $699 on a mini PC for an idea that did not survive the first night. What I learned had less to do with hardware than with who was in the room.

I audit other people's technology for a living. Here is what turned up when I pointed that same instinct at the bookkeeping system I built myself.

I asked my AI for my task list and got a single entry. Here's how my 2nd brain quietly rerouted tasks from database to wiki — and why I ratified it.

I spent 30 years in tech, the last 10 auditing it. Then I built a free, hands-on course on building AI agents you can actually own in production.

OKF gives AI agents a clean way to read your knowledge. It says nothing about whether that knowledge is still true. Here's the layer I built on top.

A missing canonical tag on a Sunday morning pulled a thread. By end of day I'd built a two-agent AI publish control for my blog. Here's the system.

You're using AI every day. But at what point does that personal tool become something your business depends on — and needs to govern? The line isn't where most people think it is.

Mark Divine draws a sharp line between pain that makes you stronger and pain that tears you down. What that distinction means when you're sitting in front of a codebase you barely understand — and why a light-hearted attitude might be load-bearing.

How an MCP memory server turns sloppy voice notes and phone photos into organized action — and what that means for anyone with a project, a property, or just too much to remember.

A memory system that captures everything is only as useful as your ability to retrieve the right thing at the right moment. So I added a wiki layer — compiled views that load automatically based on keywords, written directly to GitHub by Claude. No copy/paste. No browser. It just works.

For nearly 30 years, I kept my real estate books the way my grandfather taught me — pen, paper, and a ledger. This Memorial Day, I'm finally letting go. Here's what I built instead.

She's 19, heading to Cal Poly SLO, moving into her first apartment. I'm a technology auditor. So I did what any reasonable tech-obsessed dad would do — I built her a persistent AI memory system that remembers everything, forever. Every dad has a love language. Mine is apparently building AI infrastructure for my kids.

A Technology Auditor's guide to extending an Open Brain MCP server with update and delete tools — and what happens when AI can rewrite its own past.

Scott Curtner receives the 2026 City of San Bruno Community Recognition Award for a decade of leadership with the San Bruno Education Foundation.

A step-by-step guide for non-developers to build a professional website free with Claude and GitHub Pages — including the Network Solutions DNS fix.