Nick Santos

@skinnylatte My doctor once told me that cats in the bedroom are negatively correlated with life expectancy. I didn't think she was referring to them biting my face, but now I'm rethinking that.

I know I can do TileJSON for something like TiTiler, and then GDAL tile indexes for some clients (maybe even QGIS?), and then ArcGIS has its own version of a similar thing, with metadata tiles that can be downloaded and point to the images.

But those are three formats to accomplish this, where […]

My use case is that I have 10s of thousands of images, not millions, and I have predictable and infrequent ingests. Running a full blown server with OpenSearch is unlikely to be something our team would decide to support in the nearterm.

At the same time, we have a lot of scattered users to […]

Are there any options for running a serverless patterned STAC endpoint? Or even better, a fully static STAC-metadata store that requires the client to do the filtering?

I see that https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi can use a parquet storage as its backend, which seems like it could get […]

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Three job openings across three different State of California departments - in thread:

1. GIS Enterprise Architect with the State Water Resources Control Board - closes May 1: https://calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/Jobs/JobPosting.aspx?JobControlId=474362

Today I got a vendor to reproduce a bug in a clean environment that causes the browser tab to fully lock up in a loop repeating the same request to their servers over and over again because the user is signed in, but is in a specific unauthorized state. They replicated it, then told me it was […]

A line graph showing atmospheric CO2 levels at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1955 to 2025. The y-axis represents CO2 mole fraction in parts per million (ppm), ranging from 320 to 420 ppm, while the x-axis is years.

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.

NOAA had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

Don't believe him: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-trump-column-read.html

I set up a quick uptime tracker for websites that Trump & Musk are most likely to screw with. (It's only tracking whether the home page loads, not whether data sets disappear or whatever.) https://updown.io/p/ldv2p

Finally, the people who are out of a job aren't just out of a job - they're out of an industry. Their whole industry disappeared overnight - USAID was *the* primary funder for a huge number of companies. All the people who worked for their companies just lost their employers and their […]

Adding a bit more because I'm angry. This isn't a transition that was unavoidable. Trump has the votes in Congress to get changes made. He doesn't want to do that. He wants to make whatever changes and the harm that's created (instead of working to avoid it) is part of his plan. That's fascist […]

Incredibly mad that many people I know, who have devoted their lives to helping others, are out of a job right now because Elon Musk has some kind of grudge against USAID. Far worse things will happen around the world - thousands of people will die, millions will be harmed. Musk isn't elected […]

And just a note on impact and visibility. The last person in this role led the rebuild of the main state portal, the governor's website, and many policy updates. They were appointed by the governor to a position in the Office of Data Innovation.

I'm happy to talk about CDT as a workplace, the […]

An excerpt from the position: "The IT Mgr II will build and foster a dynamic team responsible for the development, maintenance and support of web-based services and solutions including the California Web Publishing Service (CAWeb), CA Design System, State Web Template, CA.Gov Portal, various […]

The State of California is hiring a senior leader in web strategy - officially the Web Services Manager - this person leads web development and strategy for the state, building the design systems and platforms that other departments use to run their websites, including the main ca.gov portal […]

If restaurants priced like cloud computing providers:

Guest: "Hi, I'd like you to deploy one plate of pasta to my table please. How much would that cost"?

Server: "Hard to say. You'll need to subscribe to the ingredients service, which has a spot pricing option. You'll need to add on the […]

The California Department of Technology is hiring a senior web developer. This is a great team full of forward looking people and building websites and services that support many, many agencies. Hiring details at https://calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/Jobs/JobPosting.aspx?JobControlId=458256 […]