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...

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

Someone finally wrote the data-center/electricity inflation story. @nytimes.com #CPI www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...

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

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

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

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.

OSM US voting members: make sure to submit your votes for the board by midnight on March 2nd! Check your inbox for more info

We're seeking funding to take @source.coop to the next level.

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.

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

the first good post i think i've ever seen from a democratic committee account

🔥🔭🌲 What is something you want to try that connects your professional and personal worlds? I would love to stay in a fire lookout tower. firelookout.org

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

And so it begins. #GISChat If you're using and rely on Federal Data sources for your work, do you have any alternate sources if the data you rely on is suddenly unavailable? @deepseadawn.bsky.social - will Esri keep Federal data in Living Atlas? www.eenews.net/articles/gro...

Anybody know of any open source tooling that can help me with evaluating/planning radio coverage? I can only find is GRASS-RaPlaT: e6.ijs.si/RaPlaT/GRASS... #gischat

A pretty solid read if you want to learn about CRS’s and the difference between a foot and a survey foot.

I think most of my #GISChat friends have heard of and used colorbrewer2.org tools for their maps - but have any of you checked out mapcolpal.org yet?

I don't know how many of y'all are watching the migration of American TikTokers to RedNote, but it's the most fascinating thing I've EVER SEEN HAPPEN ONLINE. 🧵

...it would probably be helpful if we actually had the right links 🤦🏻‍♀️ Here's the link to the survey: survey123.arcgis.com/share/79b3f9...

TIL that @qgis has been recognized as a #DigitalPublicGood :blobcatcool: https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/r/qgis #qgis #gischat #osgeo #opensource #gis

Mister Rogers never misses

My geospatial wishlist for 2025: 1. Governments don’t output open geospatial data with invalid geometries. 2. QGIS will be able to write to DuckDB databases. #gischat #geosky

If you’re using an LLM to write code from scratch and not bothering to read documentation, I think you’re shooting yourself in the foot.

going into 2025 with this energy

You know what I love about open source software? I can just fix my own problems in public—and help other folks in the process. Nothin’ better than trying to get GRASS GIS accessible to an outside Python environment on Windows. #gischat

I’m stoked to finally get started exploring Apache Airflow!

Brief update on our ongoing efforts to allow users to specify consent (or not) for AI training: 🧵

More folks have to be comfortable with being wrong—it gives you an excellent springboard to learn new things.

I had forgotten about `git worktree` and I'm glad that I get to reintroduce it to my workflow instead of `git clone` you can use `git clone --bare` then `git worktree add` to have your branches represented as directories. No more stashing or losing changes if you get interrupted!

I would like to congratulate MS SQL Server 2025 for finally adding a JSON type, something Postgres has had for nearly a decade. Let’s see how long it takes for them to get JSONB.

🚨 Exciting news! OpenStreetMap now hosts vector tiles on OSMF hardware! 🎉 Want to learn how to use OSM vector tiles with Leafmap and MapLibre? Check this out: 👉 Demo: maps.gishub.org/maplibre/ope... 👉 Notebook: leafmap.org/maplibre/ope...

You can’t convince me the people who enjoy using SAS and the people who deploy SAS in an organization are the same people. #SAS #StatisticalAnalysisSoftware

WOW! More people are visiting Bluesky than Threads, even though Bluesky has far fewer users and isn’t linked to the world’s largest social network. Incredible. Story here: www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

SQLite users: please, for all that is holy--make your tables STRICT. Lest you or people who come after you try to read a DATE column and 🧨surprise🧨 the values are TEXT.