@pwramsey.bsky.social and I are hosting PostGIS Day again this year! The call for papers and registration is open now. Join us! www.snowflake.com/postgis-day-...

UVic receives $5M investment from the Mastercard Foundation to strengthen education initiatives for indigenous youth. 🔗 Learn more about this investment: news.uvic.ca/media-releas...

Sad FOSS4G news, Darrell Fuhriman, who organized the 2014 event in Portland, and has been a giving and supportive open source person forever, is in a bad way. If you can help in any way, please do. www.gofundme.com/f/help-darre...

Bike math is paying virtually nothing and getting a lot in return. Car math is selling your soul to waste your life in traffic and inhale kilograms of particulate matter.

This is a nice BC Ferries story. #SunshineCoast #BCFerries vancouversun.com/news/kindnes...

Cool! New Half Mile of Bike Lane Funnels Cyclists Straight into Portal to Hell: tinyurl.com/79pnj5fu

important new signage

Make a band a food: Tragically Dip

Assuming Washington D.C. still exists and only if it is safe for you to come to America to spend your business dollars without being arbitrarily detained, please attend my talk where I discuss being nerd sniped by @pwramsey.bsky.social into writing the stupidest geospatial format possible. #foss4g

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Is that a PhD level expert in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?

Everyone in the #yyjbike community needs to hop on their bikes and ride up Lochside to say ‘hi’ to the new little piglets! They are adorable (making the cutest little grunting sounds). I just noticed them on my way home last night and literally slammed on my brakes to stop for a visit. 😍🚲 🐖

In the abstract there's no inherent connection between crypto and being a malevolent, transgressive asshole. But the two things run together with remarkable consistency.

Orcas in Victoria Harbour! Four! You can see the baby closest to camera #Orcas #yyj #Victoria #Harbour

Bad Map Projection: Interrupted Spheres xkcd.com/3122/

I still say Battleshots has the potential to turn very bad very quickly.

Updated to a M8.7

What governs whether the next big Cascadia earthquake will rupture the entire margin or stop partway? In our @weareseismica.bsky.social paper led by Jonatan Glehman, with Thomas Ulrich, Marlon Ramos, Yihe Huang, & Eric Lindsey, we link geodetic slip deficit models to 3D dynamic rupture simulations..

A story in two acts:

reasonably sure this is the first time a regional government agency has launched a new service with an elaborate broadway musical parody

We're proud to announce that #finland just launched theit new Topographic Data System built on #qgis https://positio-magazine.eu/2025/06/finland-launches-modern-topographic-data-system-built-on-open-source-qgis/ #osgeo #gischat #gis #opensource

i like @powen.net approach to getting people into his talk

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

New blog. This time Getting tracks from #Garmin connect to #PostGIS. I present two options with code. www.acgeospatial.co.uk/getting-trac... Using #geopandas, #sqlalchemy

For the gazillionth time, he is not the "leader of the free world". He's not even the leader of a free country.

if you’re a data platform, you need a database. if you’re a database, you need a data platform. the drive towards consolidated general purpose database platforms continues.

This is pretty amazing. A new study with robust clinical trial data shows regular exercise can improve survival rates for colorectal cancer patients. Colorectal cancer will become the leading cause of cancer death among adults ages 20 to 49 by 2030.

The new GDAL 3.11 CLI has context-aware bash completion and spelling suggestions – options, formats, sub-commands, and more! No more fumbling for inconsistent names or orderings. Join us at the GDAL CLI Deep Dive webinar on June 3rd at 1400 UTC to learn more. numfocus-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

PostGIS tip: Get faster spatial queries and maps with st_simplfy. ⚡ When you don't need exact topology and want to make things faster and simpler, look at the ST_Simplify and ST_SimplifyPreserveTopology functions. Example in the video.

This seems like an interesting new scam. But I miss the Nigerian princes of old.

I feel like I've found a new controlling meme for open source contribution and innovation.

It is ridiculous how Happy listening to a political podcast, drinking a scotch, and cooking some sausage makes me. Such a simple creature I am.

Wait a minute? You’re saying that Joe Biden was secretly old during the 2024 election? And nobody said anything? Fishy.

My politics in a headline:

OK, it's official, I have submitted my talks to FOSS4G-NA, the bestest FOSS4G on the continent. My trip this week to pgconf.dev has gone very well, time to start getting the conferencing muscles fully toned up.

Presenting now at ##PGConfdev is Marco Slot of Crunchy Data talking about “The Trouble with Extensions”, an exploration of the structural problems you’ll face if you want to build reliable, sustainable extensions

I want on this train too… is there a talk I should be doing? I am paralyzed by options and not knowing audience

It's the 21st century, we were promised flying air palaces, and instead we got 140 characters.

“At this point, 17 years after crypto arrived on the scene, there are still no — I repeat, no — significant legal use cases.” paulkrugman.substack.com/p/crypto-is-...

Utah approved these, there is nothing stopping us from doing the same www.theverge.com/news/661640/...

"In Venice, after a doge who attempted to make himself autocrat was beheaded for his offense, subsequent doges were followed in official processions by a sword-bearing symbolic executioner as a reminder of the punishment intended for any leader who attempted to assume dictatorial power." /1

Starting an important port to GEOS! Coverage cleaning has been a white whale feature for a long time, but here it comes. github.com/locationtech...

This is such a wild, surreal sight. I've driven past this port hundreds of times and I've never seen it look anything close to this.