Gary Oberbrunner

Another day, another broken record. Niño 3.4 all-time record SST anomaly of 3.64°C (prelim). globe-viz.oberbrunner.com?tab=trends&s.... Also a record high actual temp of 30.22°C, and look to the east at the sea off Peru, almost 7°C above nominal.

My latest release of pcons.org has first-class #Fortran support! Fortran is not dead — and this release also improves mixed-language #C++, #swift, #CUDA, #python builds in lots of ways. If you're interested in replacing CMake with something modern, simple and pleasant to use, please try out pcons!

New global sea surface temp anomaly all-time record: 0.98°C. globe-viz.oberbrunner.com?tab=trends&s.... When will it break 1.0? Also new records in many other regions e.g. Nino 3.4 with ΔT +3.57°C, all southern hemisphere, Indian ocean etc. Wake up, folks. This isn't abstract, it has consequences.

Wow, another new global sea surface temp anomaly record! globe-viz.oberbrunner.com?tab=trends&s.... And Nino 3.4 region sea surf temp only 0.01°C from a new record, at +3.43°C. Pacific new record today too. Some of those temps are like bathwater.

Another day, another all-time sea surface temp record in the Nino 3.4 region (all-time, not just today vs. prev years): globe-viz.oberbrunner.com?tab=trends&s.... Predictions are well over 4°C above normal by the time this El Nino really gets going.

Alice Guy-Blaché (1873-1968) was the first female film director ever (1896), as well as the first filmmaker to make a narrative fiction film. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_G.... She experimented with the Chronophone sync-sound system, and with color-tinting, interracial casting, and special effects.

Another day, another Nino 3.4 sea surface temp record (both absolute & daily): globe-viz.oberbrunner.com?tab=trends&s.... Also the entire Pacific & other regions, click for more.

If you're a #sailor, I hope you'd like to try my new free open-source chartplotter app, Pelorus Nav. I need to sign up a few more Android testers to get it on the app store. Go to pelorus-nav.com & click "Sign up" to register for the Android beta. Thx!

#pcons users: new version 0.30.0 is just released, with many new improvements, simplifications and fixes. Please give it a spin with your C++, C, Swift, Fortran, CUDA, Metal or even Rust code! Pcons is my open-source software build tool, a much nicer user-friendly #CMake replacement. pcons.org

Nino 3.4 region, new record high sea surface temp (not just daily record) yesterday, still unofficial. And it has a long way to run yet. globe-viz.oberbrunner.com?tab=trends&s...

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! Yesterday's (preliminary) Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature just broke past 3.0°C above the 1991-2020 baseline! This marks the 108th consecutive daily record, is 1.07°C above the previous daily record set in 1997, and is 4.02σ above the baseline.

Look at this enormous >5.5°C anomaly all along the equatorial Pacific. That is a _lot_ of energy. globe-viz.oberbrunner.com?tab=globe&sr...

HISTORIC HEAT WAVE IN MIDDLE EAST Absolutely extraordinary what 's going on in Middle East with MINIMUMS still >35C. In Particular the MIN of 35.8C is BAHRAIN HOTTEST SEPTEMBER NIGHT ON RECORD Next days insane heat will spread to all Central Asia and than East Asia:Historic

The config process with pcons for my entire project is a lot faster than with CMake. @gary.oberbrunner.com Awesome work.

MIT just released a call to action on the future of college in the AI era. Calls for a top-to-bottom rethink & reinvention of the curriculum starting from what we want students to actually learn, not just grades & homework & lectures. "This is not an optional exercise." aiandeducation.mit.edu/report

Our national parks are already severely understaffed. They’ve lost roughly a quarter of their permanent workforce since Trump returned to office, and the people who remain are being asked to do more with less every single day.

OISST sea surface temps hit another new all-time record (not just new daily record, which it's been hitting every day since the beginning of June): 0.87°C above 1971-2000 mean (global = 60°N-60°S). globe-viz.oberbrunner.com?tab=trends&s.... ERA5 still has today slightly below 2024's record, for now.

Visualizzazione interattiva 3D delle anomalie della temperatura superficiale del mare By @gary.oberbrunner.com oberbrunner.com/blog/sea-tem... globe-viz.oberbrunner.com?tab=globe&sr...

A view of the rapidly thinning #Arctic sea ice cover by decade... 📉 More info on data: climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data...

The fires in the Arctic aren’t the main concern. It’s what’s frozen underneath the fires (or at least used to be frozen until the fires). The vast quantities of frozen methane in the Arctic and boreal forests are the main concern.

2003 was once exceptional. Now it's average. 2024's record will be average by the mid-2040s. The extreme summers of the 2040s don't bear thinking about! 🌡🥵😬 #ClimateEmergency After @edhawkins.org & @stottpeter.bsky.social using ERA5 + CMIP6.

Yesterday was the all time preliminary global sea surface temp record per OISST. I expect it to be revised downward in the coming days, but even if it is, it won't be long before we break the previous record.

In April, David Hibbett walked us through 1.5 billion years of fungal evolution. Now the book is out. He's at Brookline Booksmith Aug 26 with Maria Pinto. #mycology #boston https://www.eventbrite.com/e/david-hibbett-with-maria-pinto-the-complete-fungi-tickets-1993715576960

I don't mean to be dramatic, but the world is in trouble. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

Setup my newest game engine to use pcons/Python for the build system. Configures much faster, and the overall compile process is simpler. Pretty cool project. Also moved the testing/run script to Python for use with pcons instead of Perl for the CMake build scripts. I am satisfied with the project.

Some initial thoughts, and a complicated mix of feelings. Wow. I mean, Erdos problems are cool (I genuinely mean that), I didn't know about the Jacobian conjecture before it got disproved. But this newest batch from OpenAI hits home in a way the previous announcements did not.

Great to see pcons in use, in the wild! (pcons.org) Thanks @lostjared.bsky.social !

Global sea-surface temperatures just reached their 50th consecutive record hot day and are expected to continue to rise for another month. This is so far beyond 'bonkers' (technical climate science term) that the Climate 8-ball has decided to start drinking early today.

#ScienceUnderSiege @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social

Are you going to Siggraph? Stop by the Framework booth #624 and say HI. We will be doing live demos.

Long read - the ongoing train wreck at Boston Symphony Orchestra www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/a...

What Is the Future of Mathematics? Will humans still want to do math? Will universities pay for it? Why do we do pure research?

'DEF CON — A guide for the perplexed,' and the existential meaning of hacking. johnsundman.substack.com/p/def-con-bi...

Physicist & chemist Marie Curie was the: + First woman to win a Nobel Prize + First person & only woman to win twice + Only person to ever win a Nobel Prize in 2 different sciences: Physics (1903) & Chemistry (1911) Marie Skłodowska Curie died #OTD in 1934. #WomenInSTEM

Show HN: Pcons: new software build tool in Python, inspired by SCons and CMake I've been really gratified to see a bit of uptake of pcons in the open-source community, so I thought I'd post... Origin | Interest | Match

This is huge news! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

If you're a C/C++ programmer, or wasm, CUDA, Fortran, or anything else that needs compilation, or you're just tired of CMake's idiosyncracies, please try my new open-source build tool, pcons: pcons.org. Building software should be simple! #cpp #fortran #cuda #cmake #software #python

Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and the benefits it provides. The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil emissions are doing to our oceans. easternherald.com/2026/06/13/u...

For all would-be SpaceX investors, reading "A City on Mars" is a strong recommend. Very funny on the many ways space is terrible, uneconomic, and the decades/centuries of (boring, non-phallic rocket related) research needed to make settlement even a vaguely realistic proposition.

New release of pcons cross-platform c++/CUDA/wasm/fortran/etc. build tool: 0.19.0. Better C++ modules support, better Install support (w/ prefix), multiple generators, and more! pcons.org, github.com/DarkStarSyst...

This is horrifying. It could kill American science and its leadership. Science friends, please submit a comment now.

"Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System" (nytimes) ... so if we don't measure climate change then it's not happening? La la la...