Blog
Welcome to my blog! Here you'll find a collection of my thoughts and experiences. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy writing them.
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Relaunching mirzu.com: Robots First
Relaunching my personal site with a Robots first mindset.
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Selected Talks by Mike Minecki
Various Talks Mike Minecki has performed.
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The robots first web is here, today.
Lets face it: the primary audience of anything being published on the web is robots, and humans are soon to be second class citizens.
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Press Release: Michal Minecki: Transformational Agency Delivery Leader Brings Two Decades of Digital Innovation Excellence to Organizations Seeking Operational Excellence
Michal Minecki, a distinguished Agency Delivery Lead with 20 years of proven success in digital transformation and engineering leadership, is now available to help organizations achieve exceptional project outcomes, team performance, and client satisfaction through strategic delivery excellence.
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The Three Pillars of Team Building: Excellence, Empowerment, and Empathy
There are lots of things that go into building great teams, but at the core are three pillars: Excellence, Empowerment and Empathy.
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The Smart Way to Price Your Website Project (And Why One Model Is Ideal)
A comparison of website project pricing models that makes the case for "fixed price with variable scope" as the ideal approach for large, complex web initiatives.
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Build a Better Chatbot: How RAG Secures Better Results from AI
An overview of how retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improves AI chatbot accuracy and a breakdown of the development stages for building a reliable chatbot.
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Follow These Steps to Get Decoupling's Website Performance Gains Without the Costs
A practical guide to achieving the performance and flexibility benefits of a decoupled architecture while keeping your traditional CMS intact.
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Speed and Quality? Yes, You Can Have Both
How Four Kitchens integrates quality assurance into its Agile workflow from Day 1 so that speed and quality reinforce each other rather than compete.
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VR DrupalCon Demo Case Study
A behind-the-scenes look at how Four Kitchens built a WebVR experience for DrupalCon Baltimore that let attendees virtually visit team members' home offices.
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Hiring and Onboarding: The 48 Hour Rule
A practical onboarding strategy that requires new team members to deliver something productive within their first 48 hours on the job.
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Speaking at Pantheon: How Decoupled Architecture Renewed Our Love for WordPress and Drupal
Various Talks Mike Minecki has performed.
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Intro to Headless Drupal at TCDC
An announcement for Four Kitchens' free Introduction to Headless Drupal training at Twin Cities Drupal Camp, covering Drupal as a content API integrated with Node.js.
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DrupalCon LA: Headless Roundup
A curated guide to the best headless and decoupled Drupal sessions at DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015.
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Cover Letters Are Not Dumb: Why You Need to Write a Cover Letter for the Job You Want
A hiring manager's perspective on why cover letters are essential — and why skipping one can get your resume filed under "not qualified."
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A Better Way to Theme Field Collections
A clean, maintainable approach to theming Drupal 7 field collections using a custom helper function and the entity metadata wrapper.
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Reusable Development Environments on a VM Part 1: Setting Up the DNS to Work Properly on Mac OSX
A step-by-step guide to configuring a local DNS server on Mac OSX so that virtual machine development environments automatically resolve wildcard domains.