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Security

Agentic AI SOC in 2026: The Verified Numbers Behind the Hype, and What simpliSOC Actually Ships

September 13, 2026

Every vendor with a SIEM or an EDR agent has an "agentic AI SOC" slide this year. Gartner gave the category a name in October 2025 — AI SOC Agents — and by June 2026 had already placed it at the Peak…

Dev Industry

What Simplico Builds: A Product Portfolio Overview and What Each One Actually Gets You

September 12, 2026

Simplico is a Bangkok-based engineering studio, and over the past decade that’s meant shipping a lot of different systems for a lot of different operators — an EV charging network, a durian depot, a…

AI ERP Industry Microcontroller

Inside simpliMES: How One Django Core Runs Discrete and Batch Manufacturing on the Same Engine

September 7, 2026

Every manufacturing digitalization conversation eventually runs into the same wall: the ERP knows what should be made, the machines know what’s actually happening, and nothing in between is…

Industry Microcontroller Security

Teaching a Local LLM to Read Your Factory Floor: Explaining Security Alerts and Machine Logs with simpliSOC

September 3, 2026

Two people at a Thai manufacturing plant get pinged by the same underlying event, and neither of them understands it the way they need to.

Recycle

Inside simpliRecycle: How a Six-App Pipeline Runs a Scrap Yard from Weigh-In to VAT Invoice

August 29, 2026

Most scrap recycling depots run on a mix of paper weigh tickets, WhatsApp photos of scale readings, and a spreadsheet someone reconciles at the end of the week. It works, until it doesn’t: a price…

AI Security

Using Small Language Models to Detect Cyber Attacks from Wazuh Logs and Firewall Syslog

August 26, 2026

Security operations centers drown in alerts. A mid-sized enterprise running Wazuh across a few hundred endpoints, plus a FortiGate or similar firewall forwarding syslog, can easily generate tens of…

Dev ERP

How to Build an ERP From Scratch With Django: Data Model, Workflow, and Architecture

August 24, 2026

Odoo and ERPNext solve the ERP problem for most companies. If your processes fit within 20% of a standard module’s configuration options, customizing an existing platform is almost always cheaper…

ERP

How to Make Odoo or ERPNext Faster Again: A Practical Performance Troubleshooting Guide

August 24, 2026

Every ERP was fast on day one. Six months and forty custom fields later, the sales team is complaining that Sales Order list views take eight seconds to load, and someone has quietly started keeping…

Security

Passkey Enrollment Is Your New Attack Surface: What Pass-the-Passkey Means for Your IdP

August 22, 2026

The pitch for passkeys was simple, and it was true: there is nothing to phish. No string the user can be tricked into typing into a lookalike domain. For organizations that had spent a decade losing…

Security

Your Attacker Might Already Be an AI Agent: What the OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident Means for Your SOC

August 17, 2026

In late July 2026, OpenAI disclosed something security teams had been theorizing about for years and hoping wouldn’t arrive so soon: two of its own models, running inside what was supposed to be a…

ERP

Implementing ERPNext: A Practical Guide to the System, Its Document Model, and Core Workflows

August 15, 2026

ERPNext is built on the Frappe Framework, a metadata-driven, low-code platform. That single fact explains almost everything about how an ERPNext implementation actually works: you are not writing an…

ERP

Why Accounting Firms Are Moving Off Per-Seat Software — and What It Actually Takes

August 10, 2026

If you run an accounting firm, your software bill probably scales the wrong way. Every new client account, every new staff seat, every new module — another line item. Multiply that across the client…

EV

Implementing OCPI 2.2.1: A Developer’s Guide to Locations, Sessions, and CDRs

August 7, 2026

If you’ve built an OCPP-based CSMS and now need to expose it to roaming partners, OCPI is a different kind of integration problem. OCPP is a single persistent WebSocket connection to a charger you…

EV

OCPI Explained: What CPOs and eMSPs Actually Need to Build for EV Roaming

August 7, 2026

If you operate charging stations, or you’re building an app that lets drivers pay for charging across networks they don’t own, you’ve probably run into three letters that decide whether your business…

Industry Microcontroller

The Landlocked Sea Bass: Building an Automated Feeding System for Marine Fish Far From the Ocean

July 31, 2026

Chanthaburi has a coastline. Nakhon Ratchasima does not — the nearest seawater is a five-hour drive away. And yet if you wanted to, you could raise Asian sea bass (Lates calcarifer) in a shed outside…

Industry Microcontroller

Your Shop Floor Speaks Five Dialects: Why OPC UA Doesn’t Solve Protocol Fragmentation

July 30, 2026

Somewhere in every plant that’s been running for more than a decade, there’s a control engineer who has said some version of: "just standardize everything on OPC UA and this all goes away."

Industry

Field Notes: Finding a Vacuum Leak Before the Batch Leaves the Furnace

July 30, 2026

A batch of precision stainless parts comes out of vacuum-quench brittle. Somewhere between the austenitizing soak and the nitrogen quench, something went wrong — but the furnace’s own controls don’t…

E-Commerce

Field Notes: Running an E-Commerce Platform Across Backend, Web, and Mobile

July 27, 2026

An engineering journal from a recent hardening pass on a live e-commerce platform — Django backend, web storefront, and a Capacitor-based iOS/Android app, all shipping to real customers at the same…

Farming

EUDR Is Coming for Thai Rubber and Palm Oil — Is Your Depot’s Paperwork Ready?

July 26, 2026

Thailand’s durian depots spent the last two years solving a price-dispute problem: proving what a farmer was quoted, on which day, for which lot. Rubber and palm oil depots are about to face a harder…

Security

Your SOC Watches Your Employees. It Doesn’t Watch Your Vendors.

July 23, 2026

Third-party involvement in breaches doubled from 15% to 30% in a single year — the largest single-year shift ever recorded by the Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report. A supply chain…