Vector Tiles Part 1

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What's in my HEAD

the head is the good stuff

The HEAD of a HTML document is a really interesting thing.

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Unit Testing React Components

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State of the Office 2016

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My new desktop build

A few years back I replaced my home-built desktop PC with a Lenovo laptop. My thinking at the time was wouldn’t it be great to be able to drag my production machine everywhere! This turned out to be bad thinking.

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PSA: OldIE (almost) dies on January 12

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YouTube Performance Switcheroo

I was really happy with my YouTube intro vid for GeoPortal. I wasn’t happy with what it did to my page load time. It added >1s to the load time, ~300KB to the page weight, and did some unpleasant style flashing as the player loaded. For a video that some users would watch once, that sucks. Time to give it the forearm shiver.

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Dirt Simple PostGIS HTTP API v2 (Node)

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GeoPortal v3

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Behold! I bring you GeoPortal. Again. For the third time.

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My Postgres box can melt your face

I have beed doing (mediocre) dbadmin work forever. MS SQL Server, MySQL (pre-MariaDB), and Postgres have minded my data at various times for two decades. MySQL was OK. I lived in constant fear SQL Server had broken into

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