Twenty-five years of building things to find out if the idea holds. Usually GIS and data systems, usually for nonprofits and government.
I don't trust anyone anymore. Including myself. It's AI all the way down and the signs are everywhere. This post changes that (see what I did there). Em dashes, it isn't this, it's that, surfacing load-bearing insights, etc.It all sounds insightful and compelling and eloquent…
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I developed a web mapping application in 2015 that showed federal recreation sites on a slippy map (do we still say that?). Recreationer. Somewhere along the way, it broke. I assumed that the technology just got too old and/or the recreation.gov API had been deprecated so…
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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 data,…
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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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