What does getting it right the first time cost us?
Building in public has helped my practice grow by letting actual use inform the next decision. What do we lose when professionalism means nobody can see us revise?
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Tools, maps, experiments, and the decisions behind them. What I made, why I needed it, and what I learned along the way.
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What I’m building with Groundtruth 911
Groundtruth 911 has a public home. How the work took shape, why human judgment is central to Validation Workbench, and what I want to build next.
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I Stopped Treating My Phone Like a Finished Product
I connected a Fairphone to my computer with Android’s official developer tools and rebuilt it around the way I actually live. You do not need to become a programmer to stop accepting someone else’s defaults as the natural order of your phone.
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I made myself a tiny brand publisher
I built a small offline brand publisher because the tools I was using were all almost right, but none matched my exact workflow. Now the repetitive brand decisions are handled locally and consistently, so I can spend more time on the actual work.
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The work between the standards
Why I’m building a vendor-neutral NG9-1-1 GIS community and why I’m starting by giving away a tool
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I’m opening beta testing for Groundtruth Schema Bridge
I’m opening beta testing for the first public Groundtruth 911 release. Groundtruth Schema Bridge is a free public-beta ArcGIS Pro toolbox for moving GIS data between
