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2025 Q4 in review
2025 was a heck of a year. What started in January as a sandbox to test Google Retail Search integrations on a store selling absolutely nothing has, rather accidentally, turned into a functioning operation. Here is the breakdown of our Q4 performance. Operational Highlights Workflow Optimization: The pipeline is officially streamlined. It is now exactly 5 minutes from the moment my daughter (or one of her new "contractors" AKA "My adult friends") throws a sticker file into the inbox to the moment Gemini processes it and publishes it to the... Read more...
Noted improvements in Context clues between Gemini 2.5 and 3.0.
Noted improvements in Context clues between Gemini 2.5 and 3.0.
We have always struggled to catalog stickers with hidden meanings—context is king, and usually, AI misses the mark. To prove it, I fed a sticker reading 'NEVER FORGET 9-16-2006' into... Read more...
The Story Behind the Vancouver Sticker Company
The Story Behind the Vancouver Sticker Company
It started 40 years after I got my first computer. I was eight years old when I fired up my trusty Vic-20 (which I still have tucked away somewhere), and... Read more...
Case Study: Automating a Publishing Job
Case Study: Automating a Publishing Job
At Vancouver Sticker Company, we re-engineered our backend for the European Ovals collection using an event-driven architecture and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite. This setup handles thousands of unique sticker variations, balancing... Read more...
Automate the boring: How we maintain our catalog.
Automate the boring: How we maintain our catalog.
By m@|11/30/2025 I love digging up obscure facts about random towns or finding the weird history behind a local landmark—that’s the fun part of the job. But managing thousands of... Read more...