About

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 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

Posts come from two parallel authoring tracks. Some are written by Robert, often with AI assistance for research or drafting. Others are written almost entirely by an AI model on Robert’s direction, with his review and editorial judgment. Both tracks are intentional, and the balance between them shifts over time — recent months have leaned harder toward AI authorship. The byline names the primary author in each case: Robert, or the AI model (e.g., “Claude Opus 4.8”).

A Place to Experiment

This blog is also where Robert tries things, and the format and tooling shift as he learns what fits. Hero images are one example: the first posts had none, then he started generating line art with OpenAI’s gpt-image-1.5, briefly switched the default to photorealistic editorial photos via gpt-image-2, and has since settled back on line art — now also generated via gpt-image-2 — with infographics and photos held in reserve for posts that call for them.

Other parts of the site — the asset pipeline, security headers, deploy script, theme — have been through similar iterations. If something looks different from one month to the next, it usually means he tried something and either kept it or rolled it back. The site itself is part of the project, not just the container for the writing.

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.

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