# The Signal

The Signal publishes first-hand essays and technical field notes from Devzilla research, engineering, and product work, with audio planned.

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Media Company

We document the craft of building. Work from the Lab, Agency, and Foundry becomes first-hand essays and technical field notes, with audio planned for later.

Why media

## Working in public is a strategy.

Publishing sharpens the research, attracts the clients, and builds the audience every Foundry launch inherits on day one. The Signal is not a marketing department. It is distribution as infrastructure.

Formats

## What does the Signal publish?

Written

### Essays

Long-form writing on AI products, engineering craft, and the economics of building. Opinionated, sourced from our own work.

Publishing later

Technical

### Field Notes

Short, technical breakdowns straight from the work: what we tried, what broke, and what we would do differently.

Publishing now

Audio

### The Roost

Conversations with operators, researchers, and founders about what building actually looks like from the inside.

First transmissions coming later

Signal archive

## Essays and field notes

Browse first-hand writing from Devzilla engineering, research, and product work. Filter the archive by publication format and the system topic it examines.

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Topic

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Showing all 3 publications.

 [![A relief map of California crossed by a bright fault line and concentric seismic rings.](https://devzilla.co/_astro/california-earthquake-filtering.B2xFNzmW_ZjsO45.jpg)](https://devzilla.co/media/california-earthquake-filtering/)

Field Note 2026-07-28

### [A Bounding Box Is Not California](https://devzilla.co/media/california-earthquake-filtering/)

How Earthquake Watch uses a state polygon to keep neighboring Nevada, Oregon, and Baja California events out of a California publication.

-   Geospatial
-   Data Engineering
-   Publishing

[Read the field note](https://devzilla.co/media/california-earthquake-filtering/)

 [![A disc-shaped UFO hovers above a government media archive and illuminates evidence with a narrow beam.](https://devzilla.co/_astro/ufo-map-hybrid-media-architecture.iHq_L801_11f66N.jpg)](https://devzilla.co/media/ufo-map-hybrid-media-architecture/)

Field Note 2026-07-28

### [The Twelve-Gigabyte Map We Did Not Deploy](https://devzilla.co/media/ufo-map-hybrid-media-architecture/)

Why the UFO disclosure map bundles stable images while leaving government documents, video, and audio on their primary hosts.

-   Geospatial
-   Deployment
-   Public Data

[Read the field note](https://devzilla.co/media/ufo-map-hybrid-media-architecture/)

 [![San Francisco cranes and a framed building rising from layered permit cards and blueprint lines.](https://devzilla.co/_astro/building-permit-publication-pipeline.DWZ0Vb8v_ZMgILx.jpg)](https://devzilla.co/media/building-permit-publication-pipeline/)

Field Note 2026-07-28

### [From Permit Rows to a Focused Publication](https://devzilla.co/media/building-permit-publication-pipeline/)

The source, records, and rendering decisions behind SF Building Permits, a publication built over San Francisco OpenData.

-   Data Engineering
-   Publishing
-   Public Data

[Read the field note](https://devzilla.co/media/building-permit-publication-pipeline/)

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## Send a signal.

Have a technical question, a correction, or a story worth following? Send it to the team.

[Contact the Signal →](https://devzilla.co/contact/)

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