Today I just published two @developmentseed.org blogs that I've been working on. A marketing person would probably spread them out, but I can do what I want, so I'm sharing them both! 🧵

Had a great week spending time IRL with my @developmentseed.org team in Lisbon. I work with the smartest, kindest people and I’m feeling energized to finish the year strong and looking forward to 2026. 🫶

Bom dia! 📍DevSeed Lisbon

I "convinced" @kylebarron.dev to go to New Zealand 😱

From a few weeks ago, but big yikes 😱 If you have a non-profit might want to check if GoFundMe created a page for your org and ask them to remove it. abc7news.com/post/gofundm...

Pretty much sums it up

Released Lonboard v0.13! - New layer types: H3, S2, Geohash, A5 and fixed HeatmapLayer - Render data layers beneath Maplibre text labels - Map UI controls: scale, fullscreen, navigation - Significant performance improvements: fixing earlier regressions developmentseed.org/lonboard/lat...

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

I enjoyed listening to this. Great production value and always a pleasure to hear from Dr. Solís! youtu.be/1h8_6bIdKV0?...

All year, it felt like no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get more than 3 blogs out per month. Most of the time, only 2. In October, I finally got 4 blogs out! Sure, there were a couple of short ones, but I put the same love & care into those as well! Here's my October blogs 🧵

You know you’re in New Mexico when you get green chiles with your hotel breakfast.

Nothing quite like hitting "merge" on a blog post PR at 6pm on a Thursday.

Flix Bus in US powered by @protomaps.com and @openstreetmap.bsky.social I love when apps clearly attribute their map source.

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

Did anyone catch the livestream?? 👀

@worldresources.bsky.social call to move past the hype and use AI responsibly for public good resonates with how we've approached AI in our work. This is the conversation to pay attention to — don’t miss the livestream this week. Sign up: landcarbonlab.org/events/ai-me...

Register for #MappyHour with special guest Jason Boone, who will guide you through his process of creating map animations using #OpenStreetMap data with Adobe After Effects and Geolayers, plus time for Q&A. Join us at noon ET on Wednesday, September 17th. Register: bit.ly/MappyHour-ma...

We built stac-map, a lightweight, map-first prototype for exploring STAC GeoParquet in your browser. Built w/ DuckDB, geoarrow, & semantic STAC search, explore STAC GeoParquet files directly in the browser. Try it: developmentseed.org/stac-map/ Blog: ds.io/stac-map @gadom.ski @indraneel.org

Cool “before the rain” skies in Southern Arizona last night.

The Mexican free-tailed bats are still cleaning out my feeders every night.

It’s a two for one video!

I really don’t feel like posting anything except hummingbirds. Sorrynotsorry.

Today is one of those days to put the whole "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything" into practice. 🤐

One of my customers had so much fun visiting the Map Center that he came back a few days later with a camera. He made this magnificent short documentary about my store, about me, and why I bother to do any of it at all. It's really lovely and I hope you watch it! youtu.be/Dj9uKpk3Idk?...

That's not a hummingbird...

It’s Friday and I’m in car line at my kids school. It’s only 98 degrees today. I’ll share this from the DevSeed account next week but @zacdezgeo.github.io & I just wrapped the blog on building QGIS plugins and what we learned from updating the GEE-QGIS plugin. developmentseed.org/blog/2025-08...

Making the moral case for a humanitarian satellite: www.linkedin.com/pulse/moral-... #remotesensing #space #GIS #geospatial #GIS4Good

I love when we have a project that is soooo cool that we have to give it a codename while it's under development. 🕵️

Played a game with my 8 year old last night. He loves this little comic from @theoatmeal.bsky.social. Adding it to my zine inspiration collection. Maybe we need data stories told from the perspective of the creatures we’re helping @gusbusdraws.bsky.social

Every so often, I find myself in the archives of the @developmentseed.org blog. I love getting insight into what life was like before my time at DevSeed. Here's a good one. Remember that cool new tool called MapBox (lol). It got to be such a big deal that we gave it its own blog & Twitter account.

The amazing creative talent who brought my zine idea to life. Give Gus a follow!

Nope. 👎🏻

Project Phoenix is a community science monitoring project to study the effects of smoke on birds in neighborhoods across California, Oregon, and Washington. Live on the U.S. West Coast? You can join the effort. www.project-phoenix-investigating-bird-responses-to-smoke.org

Awesome.

It’s Groundhog Day. Companies use open-source tools without paying, contributing, or supporting the organizations that keep them alive. The tools we love face an uncertain future—but I’m optimistic our community will step up. Please spread the word & encourage orgs to give financial support.

Want to join our awesome group of Europe-based team members?

I really loved this narrated guide to a historical map by @mapcenter.com. pixeum.org/exhibits/569... I recall this platform, developed by Tom Paper, when he demoed it several years ago under a different name. I was pleasantly surprised to see all the exhibits now featured.

Congrats on a very eventful and productive 2024! I'm excited to be a part of 2025!

If you want some clues into bigger things we have coming, the quarterly Groundwork is a great place to look.

Over 2,400 km of new Arctic coastline exposed by glacier retreat mapped using Sentinel, Landsat, QGIS & shared via Zenodo. Open science at its best. We’re at #ESIP2025 this week, celebrating the community behind the tools that make science like this possible. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s4...

I'm on the job market and #opentowork looking for full-time opportunities in #cartography #GIS. Please help me find an amazing job! In the meantime, I will continue offering my freelance services through @tombolomapsdesign.bsky.social, so please send any potential clients my way!

ICYMI: An open letter to those of you graduating with a PhD in 2025. #PhDLife #AcademicCareers #ScienceFunding #AcademicAdvice #PostDoc #microbiology

Happy Friday! I did a little cloud-native PSA on my run last night.

Sometimes I'm jealous of the fun topics my sister gets to write about. Another banger @carmcdhume.bsky.social 🫶

Feeling really heartbroken about the devastation at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. I've seen reports of between 50-80 structures lost including historic buildings. I don't have a lot of faith that things will be rebuilt. Perhaps we just return it to its original inhabitants. 📸: North Rim, 2021

What’s new in eoAPI? ds.io/eoapi-update Highlights include: - STAC Manager for no-code catalog editing - STAC Auth Proxy for fine-grained access control - Cloud-agnostic Kubernetes deployments - Early GeoParquet support and Rust-based tools eoAPI is now powering VEDA, EOEPCA, & more.

Have you followed the rest of the @developmentseed.org team yet? The Starter Pack is the best way to do that!

My new favorite bread company. www.adastrabread.com/home

We are excited to welcome Beatriz Peres to the team! Over the summer, she'll work on the ESA EOPF Toolkit project (eopf-toolkit.github.io/eopf-101/) with our Lisbon-based team. Beatriz is a geospatial engineer & master's student who loves working with open-source tools, SAR imagery, & LiDAR.

Applications for the OSM US Microgrants summer cycle are now open through August 4th! The microgrants support events, travel, and educational initiatives around #OpenStreetMap. Grantees will be notified by September 8th. Learn more in this blog post: openstreetmap.us/news/2025/04...