From Drone Capture to Publishable Map: A Python + GDAL Pipeline
The actual workflow for processing drone survey output into georeferenced rasters and derivative products using open-source tools.
The Blog
Engineering, photography, and long miles. I write when something's worth writing down.
Mapping the Colorado River from Bike Saddle Height
A GIS project that started as a curiosity about elevation change and turned into a month of afternoons with QGIS and too many CSV files.
Query Plan Surprises in PostgreSQL
A slow reporting query, eleven seconds on three million rows, and three weeks of actually reading EXPLAIN ANALYZE output.
Linux Performance Tools You Already Have Installed
Before you reach for Datadog or htop, there's a whole set of built-in utilities that tell you exactly what your system is doing.
Camera Bags I've Actually Carried on Bikes
Five bags tested over three years of cycling with camera gear. What works, what fails, and what I'm running now.
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