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Practical notes on building software for businesses and government programs: security, accessibility, compliance, and how projects actually run.
- Offline-first apps for field teamsField staff lose signal in basements, rural roads and hospital corridors. Offline-first apps treat that as normal. Here is how to design storage, sync, conflicts and privacy.
- NIST SP 800-53 for small software teamsSP 800-53 Revision 5 has 20 control families and three security baselines. A small team does not need to read all of it. Here is how to find the controls that apply and document them once.
- What happens in a software discovery sprintA discovery sprint is a short, fixed block of research before any build starts. It answers what to build, for whom, and whether to build at all.
- Custom software vs SaaS: how to decideOff-the-shelf SaaS is the right answer more often than software firms admit. Here is a fair way to compare it with custom software on cost, fit, integration and ownership.
- Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 AA checklistThe Revised 508 Standards point to WCAG 2.0 AA, while the ADA Title II rule for state and local governments uses WCAG 2.1 AA. Here is a working checklist for agency web applications.
- What is an authority to operate (ATO)?An ATO is a senior official accepting the risk of running a system. Here is how the NIST Risk Management Framework gets you there, and what vendors and subcontractors actually prepare.
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