A geospatial career journey
I have said repeatedly throughout my career that the effective use and adoption of technology requires a deep understanding of your own business processes and workflows. This is true regardless of the nature of the technology: proprietary or open-source, SaaS or cloud or on-prem, web or desktop or mobile, SQL or not. None of these … Continue reading AI Still Requires You to Understand Your Business
It's been about a year since we rolled out GeoFeeds, a spatial new aggregator along the lines of the old Planet Geospatial. During that time, it's been humming along, and we've added about 90 blog feeds to it. It provides a single, rolling, aggregated feed of posts from those blogs over the previous year. I've … Continue reading GeoFeeds: Now with MCP
I've been doing more (a lot more) with Claude Code lately. With its subagents and skills features, it's become more customizable and powerful. I can really dial it into doing things the way I want them done, which accelerates my development and quickly gets me to where I am focused on important behaviors, rather than … Continue reading Spatial Analysis with Claude Code
Earlier in my career, I was working on an infrastructure protection task and we were reconciling data from several sources that addressed the same road network. The data from the locality was authoritative, but it lacked some information we needed so we were conflating other data to the linework. I commented on the general lack … Continue reading Metadata Rising
I have no problem with vibe coding. Yes, you can make bad code with it, and quite easily. The worst way to vibe code is to issue a monolithic prompt like "Build a word processor with the features of Microsoft Word." But using techniques like chain-of-thought or plan-and-solve prompting in an iterative manner can yield … Continue reading Vibing Adjacencies