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Methods, lessons from site, and how the tools came about. Written for other people who do this work.
2026
- The ‘diff every number’ rule: catching stale carryover in cyclic reports Recurring regulatory reports fail QC at the copy-paste step. Here’s the paragraph-diff workflow I use to catch it — and the small tool that automates it. Technical 2 min
- Building a Field-Navigation Tool for Grid Sampling Why I built a lightweight tool to find sampling-grid nodes in the field, and what it changed about how the team collects data. Professional 1 min
- Reading an XRF in the Field What a handheld XRF analyzer actually tells you during site characterization — and the field habits that keep the data defensible. Technical 1 min