Writing About Building Things

MV3 capture architecture from production customer-care tooling — CDP, redaction, service worker constraints, and why nothing leaves the browser.

Zone 5a midsummer notes from my first real seed-start year — basement grow lights, Norfolk Healthy Produce Purple Tomatoes setting fruit, lost tomatillos, and what I want SeedStarter to handle next spring.

Early notes on GovDataHub, a side project to collect, organize, and explore government datasets without jumping between dozens of portals.

A practical guide to using your USDA hardiness zone and last-frost date to plan indoor seed starts and transplant windows.

What I learned leading my team’s Splunk-to-Dynatrace migration — standards, cost-model constraints, and getting engineers and support to actually use the new tooling.