Geese at the lake
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Cirrus over the ridge
Thin cloud pulling apart over the river bend — the kind of sky you launch for.
The long cut
Old service road behind the acreage, an hour before the mosquitoes win.
Orthomosaics without the cloud
Stitching survey flights locally: what ODM gets right, where it falls over, and why the GPU matters less than the overlap.
Section lines
Canola coming in on the quarter sections. Geometry you only get from 120 metres.
A Pattern Language, revisited
Alexander wrote a book about buildings that accidentally describes good infrastructure, good software, and good notes.
Dashboards that don’t lie
A dashboard is a claim about what matters. Most of them are claims nobody meant to make.
Flight logs as journals
The drone keeps better records of my year than I do. Altitude, weather, hesitation — it’s all in there.
Backup religion
inner circleThe full 3-2-1 layout, with the parts I’d only admit to people I trust: what isn’t backed up, and why.
Reading the site like a sensor array
Construction sites broadcast their state constantly — you just need to decide which signals are worth a receiver.
Thaw crossing
First week the crossing ran clear. The ice held on in the shadows for another month.
The quiet hours
Guarding two hours a day from screens, servers, and the feeling that everything needs tending.