Happy Hmong New Year, Minnesota! Wishing everyone good health, good fortune, and prosperity as we head into a new year.

pg_lake just went open source! (Apache 2.0) pg_lake is a set of extensions (from Crunchy Data Warehouse) that add comprehensive Iceberg support and data lake access to Postgres, with @duckdb.org transparently integrated into the query engine. Announcement blog: www.snowflake.com/en/engineeri...

Postgres + VS Code fans - this podcast episode is for you! Learn all about building a dev experience for Postgres in VS Code 🔗 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/bui...

Say hi at #FOSS4GNA and grab a zine from our table!

The OSM US team will share the work of the Trails Stewardship Initiative at #FOSS4GNA next Tuesday (Nov. 4th). Check out the entire schedule: www.foss4gna.org/schedule

MAGA: If you want to know what the rest of the world thinks of Donald Trump, here you go. They think he's an idiot and a buffoon. Because that's what he is. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

DevSeed intern Beatriz Peres used ESA’s new Sentinel-1 Zarr to analyze the 2024 Valencia floods with lightweight, time-series workflows. Her blog shows how Zarr + xarray make flood monitoring faster & more flexible: developmentseed.org/blog/2025-09... #BiDS25 @thrivegeo.bsky.social

I worked at Planned Parenthood. They diagnose cancers while still treatable. They help women decide what birth control works for them. They help those working through mental health challenges.   Defunding them just harms people who already struggle to find places to get care.

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Best cat video of the day

Trans Day of Visibility should be a day of joy, but it feels somber this year. The onslaught of attacks against trans folks seems endless, so I just want to say this: Trans people deserve respect, freedom, and autonomy. They deserve to live their lives as their true selves without fear.

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When my house and community burned - where was the satellite information? A very raw blog post I am putting up so folks in the satellite, geospatial and tech fields can listen firsthand why I think we are failing the situations that need us the most. www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-o...

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Please share! 👇 I know the job market is wacky right now with all the unjustly laid off federal employees. Come work with us and continue to make a difference!

I (and a bunch of other fun folks) are headed to Snowbird, UT 30 April through 02 May for @cloudnativegeo.org's 2025 conference. I'm chatting about "Right-sizing your #stac" and will show off some fun experiments we've been doing at @developmentseed.org Registration: 2025-ut.cloudnativegeo.org

Excited to welcome @briannaritapagan.bsky.social as a Technical Project Lead! 🚀🌍 She brings expertise in remote sensing, cloud infrastructure, & geospatial data, across startups, research labs, open-source communities, and NASA. Welcome to the team! 🙌 🔗 developmentseed.org/team/brianna...

As we push adoption of stac-geoparquet, we've found some cases where we might want to store multiple collections in the metadata. I made a light RFC here, if you're intersted: github.com/stac-utils/s... #stac

Statement: U.S. leadership in scientific innovation is at risk, with wide-ranging consequences for public safety and the economy. The AMS urges strong support for NOAA & other federal scientific agencies working in weather and climate. Read the rest of our latest statement: bit.ly/3DhfegUI

Naming things is so hard It's been brought to my attention that stac-rs/stacrs is very confusing We're workshopping a name change to "rustac", RFC: github.com/stac-utils/s... If you'd like to weigh in, please do! #stac 🦀🤝🐍

For her performance of "Strange Fruit" a song about lynching African American people, she would silence the crowd, a spotlight on her face. On the final note, all lights went out and she was gone.... Singer Billie Holiday,1947 #WomensArt (Image by D.Hagerman)

Back in Arizona after a simultaneously energizing and exhausting week with the @developmentseed.org team. We’re more determined than ever to make a real difference with earth data.

Great night watching the 40 Below documentary on the Arrowhead 135 winter ultramarathon with the Missing Link Running crew last night on the patio!

Malcolm X was assassinated 60 yrs ago today. See his timeless wisdom on the true meaning of “progress.” “If you stick a knife 9 inches in & take it out 6—that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound. They wont even admit the knife is there.”

I was just added to someone’s list called “engaged scientists in climate change” and for a minute, I misread it as “enraged scientists in climate change” … which would probably be 100% accurate …

"Today, we’re thrilled.. The #Parquet specification has officially adopted geospatial guidance, enabling native storage of GEOMETRY and GEOGRAPHY types Iceberg 3 now includes GEOMETRY and GEOGRAPHY as part of its official specification" @mattfry-ukceh.bsky.social cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2025/02...

The AMS is temporarily opening its career services to all who need them, regardless of membership status, and offering dues waivers and meeting registration fee reductions for those impacted by job loss due to changes in the government. Read more: bit.ly/4gRiHAk

A project I've been working on for the last 6 months. I feel really strongly about making geospatial technology and data available and understood by as many people as possible. And that requires getting creative with the ways we share information. This is my small contribution to that effort.

just moved stacrs, my no-dep Python package for working with #stac, to the stac-utils org: github.com/stac-utils/s... stacrs is meant to be a compliment, not a replacement, to existing packages (e.g. PySTAC) right now, it can read+write+search stac-geoparquet (searching via DuckDB) more to come!

This is a great package, I need to use it more. Love the stac-geoparquet support, especially leveraging DuckDB.

We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.

🌍 Happy New Year! As we jump into 2025, we wanted to look back at some of our popular posts from last year. Which one was your favorite? 💡 Let us know in the comments what you'd like to hear from us in 2025! From cloud-native to GeoFMs, here's how we tackled planetary-scale challenges in 2024:

Writing this with @jcrowley.bsky.social was one of my highlights from last year. John is kind, generous and has an incredible vision for improving access and sharing of data.

The U.S. government already knows how to be ruthless. Never forget that. This photo of a man on a mountain of bison skulls has circulated for years. Biologist Victor Scheffer said it best: “Nature needs millions of years to create a species; man needs only a few dozen to destroy one.”

For Maths fans, 2025 is a square. 45² = 45 x 45 = 2025 Also, 9² x 5² = 2025 40² + 20² + 5² = 2025 My favourite? 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025 #Mathematics #teaching #education

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The solemn 38+2 ride is back www.startribune.com/a-tradition-...

Is it sinking in?

162 years ago, 38 Dakota men were hung in the largest mass execution in our nation’s history. The sacrifice of these riders reminds us to recommit to accountability and healing for the Dakota people. www.mprnews.org/story/2024/1...

Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season. We're thankful for our partners, the open-source community, and our friends around the world.

can't do it all, everywhere. i'm done maintaining stactools, if you'd like to step up and help, please open an issue on that repo! thanks! 🙇 github.com/radiantearth...

Most trans people you wouldn't know them if you met them on the street. You wouldn't be able to pick them out of a line-up. Most go about their lives wanting to be left alone. They go to work and give 200% so that no one could ever say they didn't meet any standard because they were trans. 1/

Beef Wellington is just a corn dog from a different socioeconomic background.

I tweaked an existing OpenStreetMap before and after tool (github.com/amandasaurus...) to do an arbitrary number of steps between start and stop, creating animated GIFs of OSM changes over time. Here's 10 years of Minneapolis OSM in 8 seconds:

It truly is a perfect simplified explanation.

About 7 years ago I finally figured out it’s so much better to just be kind to everyone. Pick up the check; give away the tickets you can’t use; grab them a fucking coffee Best realization ever

i really like working at @developmentseed.org and you could too! developmentseed.org/careers/2024...

Important read and call to action for trail runners news.ultrasignup.com/the-forest-s...