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Building Tree Census: a Django and Next.js platform from local dev to production on GCP
May 9, 2026 · 7 min read
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2 posts- May 9, 2026Building Tree Census: a Django and Next.js platform from local dev to production on GCPA behind-the-scenes look at Tree Census, a municipal field-operations platform spanning Django/PostGIS, a Next.js dashboard, a Jetpack Compose Android app, and a hardened Google Cloud deployment with IAP-only SSH and Workload Identity Federation in CI.
- Dec 12, 2025Trying to make a Victorian LLM with NanochatBuilt a “Victorian-ish” Nanochat by scraping and cleaning 700k Internet Archive texts (up to 1899), then mid-training and SFT’ing it with custom synthetic chat data. It’s imperfect and hallucinates, but it was a fun end-to-end dive into real LLM pipelines.