Jonathan Bowers

Hi fine folks! I’m excited to see what kind of connections can be made here :) I’m building wildfire risk modelling software and I tinker about with web stuff. I identify as a triathlete, stellar parent, and curious geek.

ECCC is forecasting some clearer air later today and Wednesday for #kamloops wxcraft.com/map/smoke?t=...

@ballxpit.com it’s a bit too hard for my 6yo but he really likes watching me and deciding my upgrades. He’s also been building and playing in his imagination. Also the other kids in his class have no idea what he’s talking about. Anyways, here’s his builds

Don’t let your kids watch Numberblocks endlessly. My kid is now counting by squares! 4, 9, 16, 25.

Wooo. Another local org taking the steps to verify

I don’t mean to brag but I’m kinda awesome at naming stuff. Beetle with a horn: Narweedle ABCs caterpillar: Ellemenopede the alphabetapillar

Wow redwoodsdk (@redwoodjs.com) is so good. I managed to get a first working version of a small app built in a morning... server components w/ server fns for fetching/posting data, persisting in @cloudflare.social Durable Objects. This dx is great. Idea → deploy → scale (beyond 1) cycle looks FAST

Introducing LiveStore (beta) LiveStore is a next-generation state management framework based on reactive SQLite and built-in sync engine. livestore.dev

#Kamloops had a little #wildfire this weekend that was quickly brought under control 🙏🏼 1st image is what LensVx shows for the potential growth of that fire (assuming no action taken and burning for 8h) 2nd image is if it starts on June 29, 2021 (peak heat dome).

We use a white base for better data viz in LensVx, but it makes placing ignition points a little tricky. So we've added two extra layers: Canada wide fuel, and a satellite layer. The fuel layer let's you see the underlying fuel types while the satellite layer gives some context. #wildfire

We built Lens so the public could better see the effects of wildfire and hopefully become better prepared. This gif shows the deadly fire in Manitoba and it's rapid growth. Interact with it yourself: lens.pathandfocus.com?endDate=2025... or explore other current or past fires in Canada #wildfire

@kamscan.bsky.social lots of black smoke coming from West of Kamloops/Pineview. Maybe truck on fire on the highway?

Welp, we started adding some legends to our fire growth outputs and realized that we were only using half of the colour palette. We should have mapped fire intensity to a scale of -1 to 1 instead we only mapped from 0 to 1 and missed the entire yellow portion of the palette. #wildfire

I was a guest on @ykanevin.bsky.social’s Kamloops focused podcast Go have a listen

Got my first coin with the king.

I just learned to tie a Falconer’s Knot.

It’s a fully baked in validity mechanism. Avoid impersonation and confusion. And yes, cool 😎. It’s REALLY easy to do, but does need the IT folks. I know we can be a bit resistant to editing DNS records. Tell them some random guy on the internet said to do it. That might help.

Look what we have here! The City of Kamloops verified their domain! @kamloops.ca! What other BC cities have done this? #kamloops

First time in the @tnrdinbc.bsky.social book mobile at the TCC today! What an awesome service

@schickling.dev loving the podcast! Super curious about livestore. Sounds like exactly what I’m looking for. Does it sync with cloudflare (d1 and/or durable obj)? I’ve been having a lot of success with TinyBase, but I find the API cumbersome. Livestore looks way more my style.

In today’s news climate, this is the kind of hard hitting crime journalism that I know I could use a little more of:

@kamscan.bsky.social 6 or 7 unmarked trucks and cars lights and sirens heading westbound towards Kamloops on hwy 1. I’m just near Monte creek

Today I got to help an older woman cross two streets! She didn’t trust her walking stick and so was waiting for a “strapping young man”. I’ll gladly take the compliment ma’am! #kamloops

Hey @cityofkamloops.bsky.social just a friendly reminder that I (and I’m sure others) would love to see you with a verified domain handle here

Wholly crap this is soo good. Still some rough edges, but I think I've already figured out a small use case that is going to save 10-15min a day. I've imagined a day where I can coordinate outputs from extensions as inputs into others and this delivers on that desire 10 fold.

7 days in Cancun as our first family tropical vacation. We hit perfect weather, and a lot of new experiences for our 6yo.

My ai #weather data dashboard now has a map and can do some cool stuff. Here I've provided an english query for a rolling average temp on the 2 months on either side of the highest temp day.

I spent a good chunk of time the last few weeks writing a 500+ line duckdb sql query to calculate 12 nearest station distance interpolated weather values AND hourly fire weather indices. What a beast! Now to rip it all apart and maybe do less in the query. #duckdb #weather #wx #wildfire

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

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

The @duckdb.org spatial extension is cool... but using it in duckdb-wasm feels like black magic! I'm making some good progress in my little experimental weather app doing spatial queries against parquet files... ZERO moving parts, basically free. bsky.app/profile/jono... #wx

I’ve gone nearly full circle in the public education system (student, employee, and now parent in PAC). One thing that becomes clearer the further along I go: Parents, teachers, support… everyone is basically just trying to make up for the complete lack of funding and investment into education.

@gunsinger.bsky.social 👋

Very important news

1) I probably shouldn’t have tried to sell a used mattress on marketplace 2) one probably shouldn’t buy a used mattress from marketplace 3) definitely don’t expect to fold a used queen mattress you bought off marketplace into the trunk of a compact sedan

ghostty.org is super cool! My fav feature is pane zooming. ⌘+⇧+⏎ to toggle zooming in on a pane (making it full window sized), per pane font-size adjustments with ⌘+=/⌘+- Oh of course the icon... the icon is worth switching for alone.

After waaaay too much time debugging a silly mistake I’ve finally got a little @tinybase.bsky.social app syncing to durable objects. It’s slick as heck! I really want to use @tanstack.com start for more but the DX with @cloudflare.social isn’t quite as nice as @hono.dev

The majority of women over 65yrs in Canada don’t rely on their own driving for transportation. Having other options, whether walking, cycling, or transit gives senior women freedom to get around independently in their own municipalities. #munipoli #SeniorServices Source tests.ca/driving-stat...

Wow! @vitest.dev + @cloudflare.social's vitest tooling is awesome. Local versions of CF services, isolated storage between tests, integration tests > unit test, test running in miniflare other vitest stuff I like while I holiday hack: top level async in tests, module mocking

The “E-Bike Effect:” Those who bought e-bikes increased their average daily bicycle use from 2.1km (1.3 miles) to 9.2km (5.7 miles), a 340% increase. The e-bike share of all their transportation increased dramatically too; from 17% to 49%. E-bikes support fewer car trips. V/@lloydalter.bsky.social

@turtlemapper.bsky.social 👋

The real thing about passing 40 is the damn greys @justinjackson.ca

@cityofkamloops.bsky.social see this 👇? Kamloops.ca domain as a handle is cool AND good.