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Michele Hansen
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👩‍💻 CEO & Co-Founder @Geocod.io

📚 Author of Deploy Empathy, a practical guide to interviewing customers (Updated and Expanded edition out now!)

Free time: bookworm, gymnast, being outside

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December 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Today I’m going to bake cookies based on

1) an Instagram video without a recipe

that

2) is narrated in a language I don’t speak!

This can only turn out successfully 😂
December 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This book is so compelling. I’m absolutely tearing through it bookshop.org/p/books/stas...
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
bookshop.org
December 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
it's been a huge year at @geocod.io! I'm incredibly proud of what our team has accomplished together this year, and so excited for 2026. www.geocod.io/updates/2025...
December 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Husband and I are taking about computer games we played as kids.

Did anyone else play ChessMates or Gizmos & Gadgets? I absolutely loved those games
December 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This is so fascinating:
- Americans are more likely to say “thank you,” while Brits are more likely to say “please”
- American politeness focuses on positive politeness (building rapport and equality) while British politeness focuses on deference and imposition

transatlanticists.com/2024/12/10/l...
Exploring the Differences Between American English and British English
For our very first podcast episode, we spoke to Professor M. Lynne Murphy, a professor of linguistics at the University of Sussex and the author of The Prodigal Tongue: The Love–Hate Relationship b…
transatlanticists.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The Rest is History's 5-episode series on Jack the Ripper is so ridiculously captivating (and as much about journalism and society as it is the murder details) but it seems no one I know is also a subscriber so I can't talk about it with anyone and ahhhh podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
The Rest Is History
History Podcast · Updated twice weekly · Take a deep dive into History’s biggest moments with Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook. Explore the stories of History’s most brutal rulers, deadly battles, a...
podcasts.apple.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
so you might know @iamcoreyg.com as a fellow indie founder who runs teleprompter tool Speakflow, but did you know he's also a hip-hop artist with multiple albums?! open.spotify.com/album/5Pfg8O...
Anti-Anxiety
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December 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
this song is so weird and abrasive but I can't stop listening to it for some reason open.spotify.com/track/0t0WWW...
The Good Life
open.spotify.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
After 12.5 wonderful years, one of our dogs went to the big dog park in the sky today 💔

Please take an extra video of your pet(s) today. Just playing and doing normal everyday stuff. It will mean so much to you someday 💛
December 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
new zoom background who dis
December 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Reposted by Michele Hansen
🔗 The $1,000 AWS mistake
The $1,000 AWS mistake
A cautionary tale about AWS VPC networking, NAT Gateways, and how a missing VPC Endpoint turned S3 data transfers into an expensive lesson.
www.geocod.io
December 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Am I making a massive mistake by running an ad on Reddit with my face on it?

Feels like I might as well go to the nearest zoo, stroll into the lion cage, and offer myself up as dinner...
December 4, 2025 at 10:36 AM
yeah that tracks 😂
December 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Reposted by Michele Hansen
Easier than ever to make the switch to @geocod.io
Same request format. Same response structure.

Saving 90%+ on geocoding by switching from Google to Geocodio just got so much easier: www.geocod.io/updates/2025...
Switching to Geocodio Just Got Easier with Google Maps API Compatibility - Geocodio
Announcing Google Maps API compatibility mode
www.geocod.io
December 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Same request format. Same response structure.

Saving 90%+ on geocoding by switching from Google to Geocodio just got so much easier: www.geocod.io/updates/2025...
Switching to Geocodio Just Got Easier with Google Maps API Compatibility - Geocodio
Announcing Google Maps API compatibility mode
www.geocod.io
December 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I am so ridiculously excited for this
December 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Reposted by Michele Hansen
We recently rolled out a major upgrade to our geocoding engine 🎉

➡️ 57% reduction in low-accuracy results
➡️ Increase in the average accuracy score from 0.9733 to 0.9810
➡️ 1.6% more perfect-score results
➡️ 5% faster processing speed

www.linkedin.com/posts/geocod...
2025 Geocoding Engine Upgrade: Better Accuracy and Faster Performance | Geocodio
We recently rolled out a major upgrade to our geocoding engine. Key highlights: - 57% reduction in low-accuracy results - Increase in the average accuracy score from 0.9733 to 0.9810 - 1.6% more perfe...
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December 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I have 8am meetings every day this week 🫠

but at least they’re with this handsome stud
December 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Our daughter, now 12, driving the tractor with the Christmas tree on the back (which we just cut down on the edge of our property). This has become an annual tradition
November 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Popovers are poppin’
November 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
why does rap in languages you don't speak hit so hard? open.spotify.com/track/0WNLM6...
Je veux te voir
open.spotify.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I can't decide if this song is more like The Black Keys x The Pixies or LCD Soundsystem but make it noisy, but either way, I'm obsessed open.spotify.com/track/4gkAxn...
Post Ryan
open.spotify.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM