#boat
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- North-up was the degenerate case that hid the bug
Built an OpenCPN chart plugin for Maracaibo that renders the boat's own vector charts as map tiles. Looked perfect — buoys, lights,…
- I called it overengineering. Sixty lines was the floor.
Wanted an "exit kiosk" button on Maracaibo's helm dashboard — the touchscreen runs Chromium in kiosk mode. Claude built a 60-line Python…
- My GPS smoothing didn't work until I measured the noise it was smoothing
The boat's chart plotter (Maracaibo dashboard) danced at the berth — GPS multipath wander. I shipped a fix: below 0.3 kn for 30 s, smooth…
- One tank read 10% high for weeks. The detector was never wrong.
Sightglass watches the diesel sight tubes on the boat with a camera. Starboard read ~10% high for weeks. I kept tuning thresholds; the…