Gregory Power

bliki: Frequency Reduces Difficulty "If it hurts - do it more often". Good advice if the amount of pain raises exponentially with the time between actions, such as for integrating software.

BTW this "Frequency Reduces Difficulty" post from @martinfowler.com is the origin of the mantra "if it hurts, do it more often" (at least, it's where I learned it). It's amazing how broadly this applies.

martinfowler.com/bliki/Freque...

That Project Manager extension seems pretty nifty!

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

You can also do math with vim. 👀

Hackers:

Your goal is to launch the Calculator.

Someone finally wrote the data-center/electricity inflation story.

@nytimes.com #CPI
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...

My personal opinion? Not much better when it comes to the quality of the data. Is it easier to download? Maybe? osm2pgsql is a dope tool too. #gischat #geosky

I know Ibis integrates well with BigQuery as far as python packages go. I’m a little vendor lock-in averse. #gischat #geosky

I’m at a Azure/Microsoft shop for the time being. I’ll be sure to keep the GCP solution in my noggin though. #gischat #geosky

This is so cute I absolutely love it! #rstats

Am I crazy for wanting to use Apache Airflow and PostGIS to build a geospatial data platform for my org? Is that a dumb idea? #GISchat #geosky

I’m tempted to go down the rabbit hole of either GRASS functions or setting up safeguards in PostGIS to solve this problem.

I’ve found pixi to be pretty darn helpful for geospatial, uv is solid if you need only Python stuff. #gischat

Are you looking for courses? I’ve got a course on geospatial modeling that has been helpful: ncsu-geoforall-lab.github.io/geospatial-m...

PSA to GIS Professionals: friends don’t let friends create data products with invalid geometries. #GISchat

Nah, you’re good.

I was referring to the xkcd comic strip. 🤷🏼 in this case, it is what it is.

Instead of saving a csv, why not give Arrow a try?

None of this is official, but there have been NWS bots setup to get weather info, alerts and warnings.
nws-bot.us

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org

I remember seeing 18F at Pycon a few years back. Godspeed.

The administration got rid of 18F under the cover of night. People who own skyscrapers are afraid of 100 people who make websites.

Not because of the latest tech fad, but because we proved the government can be fixed, the government can be made better and the government can work for the people.

Locate Press has a pretty great book on the topic: locatepress.com/book/spatial...

You may enjoy ruff as a replacement for your Python linting—it’s wicked fast.

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Why Private Forecasting Companies Can’t Replace the National Weather Service NOAA and the NWS provide public weather data that private companies cannot recreate

This is a really nice, simple distillation of the vital role NOAA and the NWS play and how private companies cannot replace what they do.

I vouched for the “incorrect_name” to be used. #gischat

I know that’s what some folks in the OpenStreetMap community were waiting to see if the GNIS record to change since folks were committing vandalism.

Tell me you're redlining without telling me you're redlining