Davis Bennett

New deck.gl-raster v0.9! Fixed antimeridian rendering, broader GeoTIFF, new examples & interactive "explainers" for understanding how the library works under the hood. developmentseed.org/deck.gl-rast...

this is correct

Bumper sticker reading “MY OTHER MAP IS THE TERRITORY”

Here is Storm Boelo seen from space, covering the whole of the UK ⚠️

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

It saddens me to report that: - There's an ongoing LinkedIn beef around attribution in open source projects, and - I pay attention to LinkedIn I have ... thoughts. I want to avoid the LinkedIn blast radius (for now) so this seemed like a better venue in which to float these thoughts. Here we go...

Making myself angry for no reason at all remembering the American transit planner that went to Amsterdam and was appalled at how little stakeholder engagement they did in favor of actually building shit.

if you were wondering whether Alito's book is an embarrassing crock of shit, I can now officially answer your question with a resounding yes ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

I'm Happy I'm Healthy I'm HEI

ICYMI: My APSR offering a limited, conditional defense of machine politics (AKA clientelism, patronage) as a path to generating collective countervailing power.

A preview of deck.gl-raster support for alternative viewing projections. deck.gl v10 should be released in the next few months and will support rendering data in arbitrary projections. developmentseed.org/deck.gl-rast...

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

at a gas station called ”OIL!“

New video: Drawing electricity from this sodium-water reactor prevents it from exploding (in theory) youtu.be/l0qqUE1pgXU

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

found a new type of guy

love how this implies the ABC song has "fans"

Published deck.gl-raster v0.8! - Initial globe view support - New icechunk example - Improved request latency for MosaicLayer - Fixed reprojection for images extending beyond ±85° latitude - Improved rendering precision at high zooms - Improved performance developmentseed.org/deck.gl-rast...

a new zarr release (3.4.0) and a new blog post: zarr.readthedocs.io/en/stable/bl...

We functionally pay violent drivers over $1 trillion per year in subsidies so they can kill and horrifically maim millions of Americans per year. That's the medical/loss of life/disability cost *paid by victims and society* for letting drivers drive violently. All so they can have cheap insurance.

loved this explanation of image formation in optics. cool to see resolvability expressed as the system's capacity to generate the right *destructive* interference! youtu.be/n5YpxFiJf7k?...

lol at what it takes to build the 13M-line Lean proof of Fermat's Last Theorem github.com/anthropics/f...

Ravens partner for life and they strengthen their pair bonds by performing what can be described as vocal "duets". [📹 June Hunter]

Thought I was brushing away some lichen from the base of our birdbath and it leaped when I touched it! Turned out it was a Maine Gray Tree Frog 🥰

this is a great article, and I believe it contains more themes than any other new yorker article I have ever read. so many themes. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Back? on MY bullshit? It's more likely than you think 🌱 #nativeplants

Drawing all 16,777,216 possible 12 bit RGB colours in one 2D image, each exactly once. Pixels are mapped from the 256³ colour cube, following a three dimensional Hilbert curve, to a two dimensional Hilbert curve filling the square. so nearby colours stay close.

Hummingbird chick hatching 🐣

Pick almost any direction in the yard… and look, there’s another Frog😄

kyle's work here is awesome! this is going to be a huge win for the `zarr` library when we wire everything up. stay tuned!

Zarrista: a new, faster Python library for working with Zarr data! 1.9x to 2.7x faster than Zarr-Python for reading local data. developmentseed.org/zarrista/lat...

I’m fascinated by the different sounds crows make. Here’s a crow making a quiet rattle. August 8, 2026, Graceland Cemetery.

The BBC was also much more substantial in 1991 www.bbc.com/news/article...

"GPU texture address mode collies" meme continues to be my main achievement in life, I think.

just learned about the guy that played Go so hard he died

pixi 0.76 can now run standalone python scripts in isolated, on-demand environments. dependencies live inline via PEP 723, like uv supports, but pixi can layer on conda and system dependencies too. fun to build this with @prefix.dev folks. coming to a @marimo.io notebook near you SOON.

Prepare to be dazzled! I saw a chickadee in the bird bath so I went out to get a video & then the hummingbird decided to have a drink & bath as well. I put the fountain there for the birds & hummingbirds - glad it is getting put to good use! ♥️

zarr-python v3.3.0: zarr.readthedocs.io/en/stable/bl...

It's an exciting day for #Fiji users! Now read and write @zarr.dev v3 and #OMEZarr v0.5. Don't want a million tiny files in your #zarr? Shard that sucker! Read the details here forum.image.sc/t/fiji-can-r...