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  • Worth Doing Poorly; How I Failed To Run An Event (And What I Learned)

    30 min reading time; ~6300 words Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly… because doing it poorly is better than not doing it. — redheadhatchet This quote is one I read on Tumblr a few years ago, immediately printed out, and taped to my wall (imperfectly of course, as you can see from the image […]

  • Initial Development Setup – Building Tailgunner

    2 minute reading time; ~300 words For the last few days, in between holiday prep, I’ve been tinkering with the technical setup work for this project. From my experiences, here are a few notes. Software Development Environment With that, I have a working install and setup, so now I can start writing some code (once […]

  • An App From Scratch: Part 1 – What To Build

    10 minute reading time; ~1700 words Hello and welcome to my series on designing an app! After spending a few months working on a business plan, I’ve gotten to a point where I have a stack of text files full of data, and they’re getting to be a challenge to manage. Now, it’s time to […]

  • To Know Where You Are; High Precision Mapping From Scratch

    20 min reading time; ~4300 words The fun of owning rural property is that knowing where your land actually starts and ends is a guess usually. Sure, you have a parcel description, and maybe even an online service with “official” GIS boundaries (for us here in New Brunswick, this is GeoNB). However, since it’s in […]