Open field lab for low-cost wildfire sensing. Open source, open data. Built by Utahns, for Utah.https://uintawatch.com/en-ushttps://uintawatch.com/journal/2026-09-24-the-map-learned-to-talk-back/https://uintawatch.com/journal/2026-09-24-the-map-learned-to-talk-back/A streaming field agent inside the app, callouts that finally look like ours instead of Apple's, and two findings from a v4 QA pass — both fixed the same night. The interesting bug was an inverted boolean we'd been misreading for a week.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTagentdesignqatransparencyhttps://uintawatch.com/journal/2026-09-23-we-tried-to-break-our-own-app/https://uintawatch.com/journal/2026-09-23-we-tried-to-break-our-own-app/Seven bugs, three of them functional, all of them ours. A headless simulator QA pass found them, fixed them, and left two sessions dead on the floor — both killed by the agent running the QA, not the app. Here's the log.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTqatestingtransparencyhttps://uintawatch.com/journal/2026-09-22-the-pivot/https://uintawatch.com/journal/2026-09-22-the-pivot/UintaWatch is re-aiming at a validated, winnable niche with published success criteria: the detection gaps cameras and satellites provably can't cover.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTpivotpositioninghttps://uintawatch.com/journal/2026-09-22-we-audited-our-own-words/https://uintawatch.com/journal/2026-09-22-we-audited-our-own-words/This month we pledged that every claim on this site would carry a source. Then we ran a slop detector over the whole repo to see if the writing itself held up. Here's what it found, and what we changed.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTtransparencywritinghttps://uintawatch.com/journal/2026-09-22-what-comes-next/https://uintawatch.com/journal/2026-09-22-what-comes-next/The working roadmap — from reproducing published federal results on open data, to five deliberately different node configs, to first field numbers around partnered prescribed burns.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTroadmapexperimentshttps://uintawatch.com/journal/2026-09-01-we-tried-to-disprove-ourselves/https://uintawatch.com/journal/2026-09-01-we-tried-to-disprove-ourselves/We asked another AI to break the UintaWatch thesis, then verified every key claim ourselves. The sensor physics didn't survive. Here's what we found, sources included.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTresearchverificationhistoryhttps://uintawatch.com/journal/2026-09-01-where-we-started/https://uintawatch.com/journal/2026-09-01-where-we-started/Two sprint weekends, one thesis — cover Utah's wildlands with community-built solar mesh sensors that detect fires before smoke is visible. Here's what we built and what we believed.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMToriginhistory