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I use Claude every day. I still build dashboards in SquaredUp

If you've looked at SquaredUp and thought "I don't need this, I'll just use Claude", I understand completely. I've thought it too. Here's what changed my mind. I use Claude constantly. I've also spent the last few months building the parts of SquaredUp that let it in: our MCP server, the object graph and correlation, a stack of plugins. So this isn't a dashboard vendor being sniffy about AI. I've watched Claude pull from several sources and produce something genuinely useful in under a minute.

Top 10 Heroku Alternatives

Heroku is not shutting down. On February 6, 2026, Heroku CPO Nitin T Bhat announced that the platform was moving to a sustaining engineering model: new feature development has stopped, but Heroku remains actively supported and production-ready. There is no announced EOL date or migration deadline, existing apps can keep running, credit-card customers can continue using the service, and existing Enterprise customers can renew. What changed is the roadmap, not immediate availability.

Slow Degradation Incident Response: The 7 Hour Ramp

At about 2 a.m. Eastern on Sunday, September 6, 2026, reports that Google services were failing started trickling into Downdetector. They did not spike. They climbed. By roughly 9 a.m. the volume was running about ten times higher than normal, with users saying that Google Search, Gmail, YouTube and YouTube TV were failing to load. That is a seven hour ramp, and it is the single hardest incident shape for an on-call team to catch.

Spreadsheet-Based Sales Commissions Are Reaching Their Limit as SaaS Plans Grow More Complex

Sales compensation is one of the last calculations many companies still run by hand, and that gap is becoming harder to ignore as commission plans grow more complicated. The tools built to replace spreadsheets - sales commission software, also known as incentive compensation management (ICM) platforms - don't just move the math into an app. They change how the underlying data is sourced, stored, and verified.

How to Build a Faster Content Workflow for Your WordPress Site

Building a faster content workflow starts with knowing which steps slow a WordPress team down, rather than adding more tools on top of a process that's already unclear. Blog posts and pages often pass through several hands before they go live, from the first outline to the final proofread, and every handoff is a chance for something to stall.

From Monitoring to Prediction: How Fleet Data Is Changing Maritime Operations

Most maritime operators already collect more fleet data than their shore teams can meaningfully use. Positions appear on screens, real-time data arrives from onboard systems, and reports document vessel performance throughout a voyage. Tracking where a ship is has become the easy part. The harder question is what happens when that information starts indicating what the vessel will do next. The change in maritime operations comes down to shifting from reviewing events to anticipating them early enough to alter an operational decision.

Why Most Security Firms Miss Their Incident Prevention Window

Security operations managers face a critical paradox: their teams are designed to respond to incidents, but the incidents that matter most are the ones that never happen. The difference between a security firm that prevents problems and one that merely responds to them comes down to a single, often-overlooked factor: whether they can see what their guards are actually doing in real time. When operators lack live visibility into patrol locations, guard status, and emerging threats, they're always one step behind.

What's Behind the Rush for a Free Government-Backed iPhone? What Eligible Users Should Know

A new smartphone costs upward of $1,000, and for households already stretched thin, that price tag alone ends the conversation. Yet some families are getting the iPhone 15 Pro Max without paying a dime, and it traces back to a federal benefit most people have never heard of. So, the real question is whether your household meets the criteria.

How to Stage Overnight DTF Transfers for a Next-Day Press Run

Fast delivery can solve only one part of a rush apparel job. The transfers may arrive quickly, but a print shop can still lose valuable hours if the receiving area is disorganized, customer jobs are mixed together, transfer sizes are not labeled, or the press operator has to stop repeatedly to ask which order comes next. That is why next-day production should be planned before the package arrives. A receiving and staging workflow gives the team a way to move from delivery to pressing without turning speed into confusion.