Bright Rain builds things. Some of them become useful. That's usually how we find out which ones.
This is where we share what we're making, breaking, and figuring out — custom apps, mapping tools, workflows, whatever the current obsession is. Not theory. Not thought leadership. Just experiments worth writing about because we learned something, or because someone else might save themselves the trouble.
The best ideas are the ones you can actually use. We're interested in those.
A funny thing happened on the way to boring testing with Claude Code and Playwright The boring origin story I build monitoring and evaluation systems for NGOs. It is, by definition, not glamorous software. But it has to work — M&E analysts are entering program…
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After an entire career of designing, building, and supporting client-specific systems, I’ve arrived at a point where it makes sense to formalize what that support actually looks like — and make it scalable. In practice, I’ve always stayed involved long after delivery. Some of those…
Continue reading...I was giddy about web development when I started a hundred years ago. Anyone could hack at HTML, CSS, and then JavaScript to make whatever they wanted and put it out there for all to see. What a time to be alive! But then… When…
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I am absolutely in love with the ferries in Washington State. When we lived there, we would often take a ferry ride as an outing with the kids. We’ve hauled our kids aboard every route in the system at least once. It is truly magical…
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Custom Print Tool for SceneView in 4.4 DISCLAIMER: the resulting PDF is 2D. Sample link: JS Bin – Collaborative JavaScript Debugging http://jsbin.com/cayojul/edit?js,output Your browser will probably block the PDF by default since it opens in a new tab/window. This is a print tool I built…
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