chuck-stack Blog

Here is a list of recent blogs. The sidebar contains the full list.

Create Isolated Public Facing Services in Incus + Netbird + PhoenixNAP
Local AI Funding - Time to Bring Back the Co-op
Production Open Source Chat with Work Instructions
chuck-stack IT Job Description and Assessment
Immutable Off-site Backups are Imperative
Operations AI LLM Technology in 2025
Hybrid Cloud Strategy: Incus + Netbird + PhoenixNAP
Letter to the CEO
The CLI is Better
Why Conversational Enterprise Computing Matters
Work Instructions Make your Organization Sexy
We Live in a Markdown World

Create Isolated Public Facing Services in Incus + Netbird + PhoenixNAP

The purpose of this post is to extend the Incus + Netbird + PhoenixNAP article to create a safe and isolated place to host public-facing applications and services.

Here is the benefit short story:

Use your existing Incus infrastructure
Create one or more isolated networks
Host a public facing service in an isolated network

Local AI Funding - Time to Bring Back the Co-op

The purpose of this post is to help fund the improvement of your community through cooperative (co-op) AI understanding and deployment.

We've worked hard to make AI easy to understand, easy to deploy, and easy to scale inside your organization and community. We want to use our abilities to help you raise funds to extend these abilities to your organization and community.

Production Open Source Chat with Work Instructions

The purpose of this post is to help you get your first work instructions published with chat capabilities.

Here is the benefit story:

You will thrust your AI capabilities ahead of 90% of all organizations in a single step.
You will create a platform for building future automation around your work instructions.

chuck-stack IT Job Description and Assessment

The purpose of this post is to help you hire the right IT (Information Technology) talent to support your small or medium organization. We will cover the desired attributes to help your organization create efficient, simple, self-help, automated systems.

We need to make it easier for users to automate their tasks - this is the way!

Immutable Off-site Backups are Imperative

The purpose of this post is to offer a simple and safe way to store your information off-site even in the extreme event of a cyber/ransom-ware attack.

Here is why we love rsync.net:

The solution uses industry standard and best-in-class tools (authentication and file transfer efficiency).
The only client-side tools you need is probably already installed (rsync, ssh).
The default behavior includes periodic, immutable snapshots.
click to learn more...

Operations AI LLM Technology in 2025

How do you remain operationally efficient and competitive in 2025 and beyond?

This post provides a blueprint for using AI LLMs and off-the-shelf tools to help you minimize effort and maximize your strategic operational advantage. Help your people create self-help augmentation and automation tools. Help your IT department create a platform of innovation instead of one-off tools.

Hybrid Cloud Strategy: Incus + Netbird + PhoenixNAP

Reduce costs... Reduce complexity... Use existing talent (skills and knowledge) to provide services to a global workforce.

This post helps you create a simple and effective hybrid cloud infrastructure to support your organization. I cannot put into words how excited I am to prescribe such a solution. I hope this helps...

Letter to the CEO

We find and cultivate Superclerks. These superclerks effectively reduce headcount. The expectation is that the incremental increase in AI costs is less than the reduction in labor; therefore, you get a net savings.

Note that cost savings is not the biggest benefit. The biggest benefit is automation and accuracy. You get to surround yourself with smart people who know how to do/automate their jobs.

Let's find high-impact and low-effort tasks to document and automate...

The CLI is Better

The CLI creates more value for managing data and processes in small and medium sized organizations than just about any alternative. The purpose of this post is to explain what it is better than and why.

Why Conversational Enterprise Computing Matters

This article discusses why Conversational Enterprise Computing matters. It helps explain how the chuck-stack gives small and medium sized organizations a competitive advantage against both its peers as well as larger organizations.

Work Instructions Make your Organization Sexy

Said no one ever... until now! This article describes how AI is changing how work instructions are created and increasing the value of your organization more than ever.

We Live in a Markdown World

This article describes why markdown has become a better tool for documentation than both Microsoft Word and Google Docs. We believe that the use of markdown represents a point of inflection and a significant change in how documentation and training should be maintained and published.