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Rooted in tradition. Growing with technology.

Software, hardware and field research from the team at Wedgworth’s, a Florida fertilizer company since 1932.

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300+
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Vue 4 min read

Keep Your Vue Apps Fresh, Revisited

Users rarely refresh long-lived single-page apps. Here’s how we detect new releases and quietly reload idle tabs without losing anyone’s work.

Patrick Altman

Tooling 3 min read

How a Bot Fixes Our Production Errors Overnight

This past week a rare but critical Sentry alert came through. In the past, once someone saw the alert in Slack, we'd inspect the error, triage it, and start on a fix. Now all of that happens automatically. This time the fix was on production in less than

Patrick Altman

Tooling 3 min read

We Stopped Writing Code by Hand

We stopped writing code by hand. Agents do the work; we review for taste. The unexpected cost was losing the slow thinking that writing used to force.

Patrick Altman

5 min read

Eliminating Blind Spots: Using Technology to Bring Visibility to Operations

Presented originally at the 2025 ARA Conference and Expo in Salt Lake City — expanded here in blog form. On Tuesday, I joined two fellow panelists to share how technology can improve operational efficiency. My portion focused on a simple but persistent challenge nearly every retailer faces: operational blind spots. Across

Patrick Altman

Python 3 min read

How We Continually Deliver Software

We've open-sourced a reusable set of Github Actions that enable us to move fast and continually deliver high quality software.

Patrick Altman

Django 3 min read

Reusing GraphQL Queries within Django

How we query our GraphQL API directly through Python avoiding duplication of query logic and overhead of web requests.

Patrick Altman

Python 2 min read

Polars vs Pandas – Quantile Method

You can save some memory by moving to Polars from Pandas but watch out for a subtle difference in the quantile's different default interpolation methods.

Patrick Altman

Vue 3 min read

Keep Your Vue Apps Fresh

Keeping your Vue SPA up to date when new code is released.

Patrick Altman

Software Craftsmanship 5 min read

Crafting Software: Writing Maintainable Code

Maintainable code can easily be the difference between long-lived, profitable software, and short-lived money pits.

Patrick Altman