Andrew McLean ⁽¹⁴⁾

Any event that only happens once a year tends to bring unique challenges and surprises, as well as things you wanted to do differently the next time but completely forgot about. For many years at our church, that was registering kids and volunteers for VBS.

It seems that in the past several years just about every software service has moved to the cloud and adopted a subscription model: Microsoft Office, the Adobe Creative Suite, Quickbooks, etc. The idea of running your own server that's physically sitting in your facility might…

Well, we're keeping the electronic drums. Most of the gripes I mentioned in my last article have been resolved, and the improvement that the drums have contributed to our mix in the room have been undeniable. In this article I want to cover all the…

We've used an acoustic drum kit for years at our church, and for most of those years without a drum shield (it made very little difference in the overall volume). The kit sounds great, but we're always right on the edge of our volume limit.

Last time I wrote about how we use Pikapods to host a Vaultwarden password manager for our staff. Today I want to share how we're using Pikapods to also host an automation server, specifically to connect Planning Center People with Mailerlite, our newsletter service. First,…