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- Blutek Labs — Tools and experiments by Blutek Media
Explore free tools and games from Blutek Labs, with clear explanations of how they work and what they are designed to do.
- You Think My Job Is Easy?
How Blutek Labs designed a short decision game about the judgment and tradeoffs inside everyday work.
- Waddle We Pack?
How Blutek Labs designed a free spatial packing puzzle with trips, daily play, rescues, and collectible ducks.
- Insights
Notes on leadership, technical teams, and building useful software.
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Notes on leadership, technical teams, and building useful software. Page 2.
- Insights · Page 3
Notes on leadership, technical teams, and building useful software. Page 3.
- Engineering articles
Articles and practical guides about engineering.
- AI articles
Articles and practical guides about ai.
- AI articles · Page 2
Articles and practical guides about ai. Page 2.
- Low-code articles
Articles and practical guides about low-code.
- Low-code articles · Page 2
Articles and practical guides about low-code. Page 2.
- Product & game design articles
Articles and practical guides about product & game design.
- Planning articles
Articles and practical guides about planning.
- Leadership articles
Articles and practical guides about leadership.
- Low-Code Isn’t Dead. But I’d Put Less in It.
Where low-code and iPaaS still earn their place, and why AI changes the case for putting everything inside one platform.
- When roles aren't enough: designing authorization that stays manageable
Roles describe a person's responsibilities, but record ownership and workflow state often decide what they may do. A practical look at maintainable authorization, building on native OutSystems policies and RoleShield.
- Configuration is part of the application, not an afterthought
Configuration changes can alter behavior without changing a screen. Lessons from Shared Configuration Manager and a documented website release on scope, validation, deployment, and recovery.
- Making this journal faster without stripping out the design
How we reduced the Blutek homepage's measured mobile LCP from 2.6 seconds to about 1.4 seconds through image sizing, HTTP/2, compression, and caching, without replacing the design.
- Many Supplier Portals. One Purchasing Workflow.
How I proposed combining ODC, an LLM, and a Playwright service for enterprise purchasing, explained through an illustrative auto-parts order.
- Healthcare chatbots: semantic search, RAG, or both?
Choosing retrieval for a small care office, a 5-10-location practice, or a health system. Azure AI Foundry, federated sign-in, and document-level permissions explained.
- When not to use OutSystems for AI, and what to do instead
Where OutSystems fits in an AI application, when a separate service is worth the complexity, and when a simpler solution is enough.
- Before the AI prototype: a project readiness checklist
Define a useful first task, inspect the source material, and decide how to recognize an answer that needs human review.
- Low-code architecture: draw the boundaries before the screens
A worked purchase-request example covering business rules, permissions, integrations, and the release plan.
- Car Deal Check: making a calculation explain itself
Follow a worked deal through trade equity, itemized charges, worksheet differences, and a repeatable payment estimate.
- Five decisions, three priorities: inside Job Challenge
How a short restaurant shift turns competing priorities into choices, consequences, and an explainable ending.
- Making room for the duck: the rules behind a packing puzzle
How Waddle We Pack separates artwork from occupied cells, validates a layout, and checks whether a puzzle can be solved.
- A software project brief you can actually use
Turn an idea into a small, testable first release. Complete the browser worksheet, download your notes, or print a blank copy.
- A useful chatbot should know when to ask for help
Start with a real question, give the bot the right sources, and decide what happens when the answer is not clear. A practical look at RAG, review, and autonomy.
- When good employees stop challenging leadership
Silence can look like alignment. What changes when experienced people stop offering their judgment.
- Why difficult experiences haven’t made me cynical about leadership
The everyday choices that make leadership matter, especially when doing the right thing has a cost.
- Why Car Deal Check keeps the math outside AI
AI can help read a dealer worksheet. The payment calculation should remain something you can inspect and check.
- Blutek Media — Ideas, practical guides & experiments
Practical perspectives on AI, software, and leadership. Articles, guides, and hands-on experiments from Jason Marchalonis and Blutek Media.
- Selected work
Explore AcidMD, Car Deal Check, Aqua Arcade Sports, and the AI Platform: websites, tools, games, and systems built by Blutek Media.
- Car Deal Check
Understand financing, fees, and trade-in equity before signing.
- Aqua Arcade Sports
An arcade basketball game inspired by the charm of tabletop water toys.
- AI Platform
A shared foundation for AI requests, product access, and usage controls.
- AcidMD
The website for Academic & Clinical Infectious Diseases, a medical practice in Miami Beach.
- Software development services
Consulting, AI products and platforms, software and games, and OutSystems integrations. Explore how Blutek Media can help with your next step.
- OutSystems & integrations
Practical OutSystems implementation, authorization, shared configuration, and integration work, with published components and technical writing.
- The studio
Meet Blutek Media, a software development studio connecting thoughtful interfaces, practical engineering, and owned digital products.
- Community & giving back
Our intentions around mentorship, knowledge sharing, education, and community support as Blutek Media grows.
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