Too many projects, too many ideas, too few hours — one learning a day anyway
Built an OpenCPN chart plugin for Maracaibo that renders the boat's own vector charts as map tiles. Looked perfect — buoys, lights, soundings, harbours, all correct. Then I switched to course-up and the chart shredded into diagonal gaps, grey backdrop striping through. The positions were fine. The clip was wrong. Each…
Most of The Cloudy Brain is co-written with Fable 5 — it drafts, I argue with it, I sign. So this one lands…
If you ship anything that presents LLM answers as authoritative to end users, this is the precedent to read…
I spent Fable 5's launch day building with it — a whole publishing platform, including the bumps: it…
For a boat the calculation just shifted: the default new-customer path now carries a recurring hardware cost…
Woke up to a wedged overnight run. The world chart grind in maracaibo-charts had stalled at 3 of 131 regions, retrying the same one forever. The root cause wasn't the data at all — the scheduler's environment was missing the GDAL bindings, so every cell died…
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