The problem of abundance

“Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?”

Reflections on the first year of Imogen

We rebuilt that COBOL migration calculator

A LinkedIn post recently estimated how long it would take to convert the world's 800 billion lines of COBOL to Java. The post was well done — sliders, scenario modeling, a full SDLC phase breakdown. It also made the problem feel insurmountable.

Customer Presentation at Google Cloud Next 2026: SulAmérica

Nine lives

The notion that AI makes migration trivially easy has done genuine damage.

Mechanical Orchard’s Federal IT Modernization Platform now available to the Public Sector through Carahsoft’s GSA Schedule Contract