Davis Bennett

I made this real simple library for working with Zarr Convention Metadata: github.com/zarr-convent...

claude has a point here -- you probably do need prevent!

simon says critique simon says

All clean codebases are alike; each broken codebase is broken in its own way.

Vertical format picture with close up of a Gannet. Only head, neck and a bit breast part. The beak is wide open, pointing to the bottom left, throat looking very dark. Dark eyeliner looks very angry. Background of the picture is mostly dark petrol grey.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #MoodyFaces I think I found something

Northern Angry bird aka Gannet

A frozen lake in the desert of Kazakhstan is riven by a single black crack

New world record for most ominous frozen lake!

www.google.com/maps/@45.409...

Satellite imagery of 6 large human-made square regions in the desert, each with a pastiche of different colors.

industrial-scale fine art in Turkmenistan:

www.google.com/maps/@38.552...

so glad we don't do this any more

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limmu

A comically-elongated spoon is held in front of a serving of tiramisu on a brown dinner table.

is this a normal spoon shape?

A photo taken at night of the rear of a boat named "Moby Dick III"

wild name for a boat

looks like a very good beholding

The cable for a ceiling lamp is shortened by the application of two conjoined binder clips, forming a smooth spiral shape

A doorway in an industrial kitchen has a door-like structure made from vertical plastic strips colored with a dark paint. In the center-most strips, the paint is riven with white cracks. But the strips on the edges are unscathed.

Guess which of these plastic strips in the Ikea kitchen get smacked the most

On the left, the image shows a schematic of a fly head, ring neurons and EPG neurons together with some calcium imaging frames. On the right is a photo of a fly on a ball in virtual reality and another schematic of a VR system.

📢 Join us, the Haberkern lab, @uni-wuerzburg.de for a postdoc studying neural circuit mechanisms of navigation. You’ll spearheading neurophysiology experiments on our brand new 2P!

⏳ Apply by 28th February 2026

Details: www.haberkernlab.de/docs/ENPostd...

#neuroscience #academicjobs #postdoc

The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

SEVERAL Followers Georgs here absolutely wrecking the linear regression, which is something my 14yo just covered in math class

oof that image is bleak

‪she is thinking about the next Kikē@Kailua‬ artwork!

Tawny owl

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

looks great! The use of cylindrical posts to add stiffness to the tall elements suggests there's a hole the @thorlabs.bsky.social catalog

A galvanized steel post is joined to pavement with a square flange. Threaded steel rods protruding through holes at each corner of the flange are secured with nuts. Two of the threaded rods were cut very short. One is a bit long, and the last is absurdly long.

what's the plan here

you deserve it 👑

Astral’s momentum right now is staggering! Is there a precedent in other ecosystems where a small org basically levels up the entire toolchain in a few years? In any case I love to see it

Should We Let Public Transit Die? Urban-rural hostility is fueling a public transportation crisis in US cities. But demands to abandon bus and train riders ignore the economic and social costs of cutting service.

I have a major piece in Bloomberg Citylab today. Should the US let transit fail, as Pennsylvania is already doing? And if not, what are the arguments we need to let it succeed?

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

@sciencethecat.bsky.social please buy some of these and report back

This is a photo taken from inside a building looking at the ground outside. A metal railing tops the corner of a poured concrete wall. The apex of the corner abuts a curved concrete construction which is topped by a metal railing of a different design than the first. Overall it's a lot of metal railing for such a small area.

metal railings at work in Baden Baden

i love this

A 1 inch lens holder mounted on a series of steel dovetail post assemblies mounted on an optical breadboard.

dang @thorlabs.bsky.social what's with these wild dovetailed posts:

that's a lot more hexagonal basalt pillars than I expected

add a runtime type checker for metadata objects by d-v-b · Pull Request #3400 · zarr-developers/zarr-python This PR adds a runtime type checker specifically for checking JSON-like data against a type definition. It's currently a draft while I get the test suite happy and refine the API, but it's ...

banishing **kwargs with a runtime type checker + a bunch of new types in github.com/zarr-develop...