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NordHUD Is Live

After months of wrestling with three million road segments, NordHUD is finally on the App Store. Download NordHUD from the App Store What it is A heads-up display that shows your speed and the speed limit. Reflected on your windshield and works completely offline. That's it. Why we

Chasing Speed Limits Across Three Million Road Segments

Part Uno of a series about building NordHUD, a heads-up display app that taught me everything wrong about how we think about map data. OpenStreetMap has speed limit data, and I need speed limit data, so this should be straightforward. Right? I started with a web interface, realized it wasn&

NoCMS: The Best Content Management System Is a Conversation

The most common thing clients do with their CMS login credentials is to lose them. I've been building websites for years, and I keep seeing the same pattern: we sell clients a Content Management System so they can "update the site themselves." Then they never log

Your Spec Driven Workflow Is Just Waterfall With Extra Steps

AI coding tools were supposed to change everything. And they did! But maybe just not how we expected. The first wave was chaos. Vibe coding. Let the AI write whatever it wants and hope for the best. It worked well for prototypes, but fell apart for anything real. So the

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