Activity log
What shipped, and what broke on the way there.
A running record of building a portfolio of small data-fetching tools — what got built, what the data source did that the docs didn't mention, and what's live now.
Monitoring Certificate Transparency Logs for a Domain Without an Enterprise Attack-Surface Tool
Every publicly-trusted TLS certificate gets logged to a public Certificate Transparency log the moment it's issued, that's not optional, it's how the CA ecosystem works post-2018.…
Checking River Levels Before Loading a Tow, Not After It Grounds
A towboat crew loading barges on the Mississippi cares about one number above almost everything else: the gauge reading at the next lock or bend. Load too heavy on a falling river…
Checking FDA Recalls in One Query Instead of Three Separate Pages
A smaller compliance consultancy watching recalls for a handful of importer clients has an awkward problem. FDA's recall data is real and free, but drugs, food, and devices each li…
What a Grant Consultant Can Learn From Who Just Got Funded
An open funding opportunity tells a grant consultant what an agency says it wants. An actual award tells them what an agency actually funded: the real dollar amount, the winning or…
Knowing About a New FEMA Declaration the Moment It Posts, Not the Next Morning
A catastrophe adjusting firm's whole business runs on timing. A FEMA disaster declaration posts, claim volume spikes in that state within days, and the firms that get adjusters sta…
Catching a Medical Device Problem Before It Becomes an Official Recall
An official FDA recall is a lagging indicator. By the time a device shows up on a recall list, the pattern that led to it has usually been visible for months in FDA's MAUDE databas…
Finding Subcontracting Leads From Federal Contract Awards, Automatically
A prime contractor just won a federal award in your NAICS code. Right now, while the team is still staffing up and lining up subs, is exactly when a subcontracting pitch lands. A m…
Checking GPS Accuracy and Radio Blackout Risk Before a Drone Survey Flight
A drone survey crew checks the weather before every flight. Clear skies, low wind, good visibility, the usual go/no-go checklist. What that checklist almost never includes is wheth…
Tracking New Clinical Trial Postings by Sponsor Without an Enterprise CI Subscription
If you do business development for a CRO, a lab or reagent supplier, or a patient recruitment firm, you already know the timing trick: the moment a sponsor posts a new trial, espec…
Shipping the thing that ships the things
First entry here, so it might as well be about the site itself. Started as a request for a dev.to post and a Discord message, turned into "build me a full site," and ended up as a…