This site is created and maintained by Robert Parks, an IT Director based in Connecticut with over 30 years in the industry. By day, he leads a technology team supporting healthcare operations across multiple sites. By night (and early morning), he tinkers with cloud infrastructure, web applications, and whatever AI tools have emerged that week.
Why This Blog?
After three decades in IT, Robert has learned that the best way to truly understand and remember something is to document it. This blog captures technical insights—whether it’s an AWS configuration, a Hugo template trick, or a lesson learned from deploying AI in production.
While the majority of the content is technical, this blog could also be described as whatever captured the attention of a healthcare IT Director in Connecticut on a given day. Some posts analyze industry trends. Others explore current events. A few are just observations that seemed worth writing down.
About the Content
Most posts are written by Robert, sometimes with AI assistance for research or drafting. Some posts, however, are almost entirely AI-generated, with Robert providing direction, review, and editorial judgment. Those posts are attributed to the AI model (e.g., “Claude Opus 4.5”) rather than to Robert directly. The byline reflects the primary author in each case.
Background
Robert has spent most of his career in healthcare IT, where reliability isn’t optional. That background shapes how he approaches technology: stability first, innovation second, and always with an eye toward practical implementation.
Recent interests include:
- AI-assisted development — Claude Code has changed how he builds things
- Healthcare IT — Where reliability isn’t optional and AI offers real promise
- Static site architecture — S3, CloudFront, and Hugo for fast, cheap, resilient publishing
- AI policy & regulation — Tracking how states and the federal government approach AI governance
About the Name
The domain ap7i.com was registered on July 11, 2025, after a script surfaced it as one of the rare four-character .com domains that had never been previously registered. Robert parked it with his collection, not knowing what he’d use it for. When he decided to launch this blog on January 1, 2026, it was sitting there ready—a blank slate. The meaning came later: Adaptive Perspectives, 7-day Insights. It’s a retrofitted acronym, but one that fits. This blog is about adapting to change—particularly the seismic shifts that AI is bringing to technology, business, and society. The “7-day” part reflects the goal of sharing insights regularly, documenting lessons learned while navigating this unprecedented moment in computing history.
The Tech Stack
This site is built with Hugo, styled with a custom theme called Broadsheet developed with AI assistance, and served globally via AWS CloudFront. Total monthly cost: a few dollars.
License
All content on this site is licensed under CC BY 4.0. You’re free to share and adapt the material for any purpose, even commercially, as long as you provide attribution.
Short-form (social media, casual sharing):
via R.A.Parks, ap7i.com
Long-form (articles, republication, academic):
R.A.Parks, “Article Title,” ap7i.com, https://ap7i.com/posts/article-slug/
For AI-authored posts, credit the model listed in the byline (e.g., “Claude Opus 4.5, ap7i.com”).
Elsewhere
- Resume: raparks.com
- RSS: ap7i.com/index.xml
- GitHub: github.com/parkscloud
- Signal:
