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gdalxarray gets the Quarto docs treatment hypertidy.github.io/gdalxarray/ #python #gdal #xarray GDAL in (only a) xarray trenchcoat, multidim rasters, or classic bands (band_as_dim True or False as you prefer)

Hadley's post clarified for me the role the language we use plays in describing AI "collaborate" and "expertise" are the kind of terms I'd use for a person, not a tool (you wouldn't collaborate with a hammer) AI might be unlike any other tool we've created, but it's still just a tool

Oh I thought of one myself! Haven’t you ever _fought_ with the computer to get something done?

this dogpile on link din could have been an email

GeoLibre v3.5.0 is here! Try it out - Launch GeoLibre Web: web.geolibre.app - GitHub: github.com/opengeos/Geo... - Documentation: geolibre.app - Release notes: github.com/opengeos/Geo... #GIS #GeospatialData #OpenSource #ArcGIS #PlanetaryScience #StoryMaps #MapLibre #Python

RustGIS v0.4.0 is here! Try it out - Launch the web app: web.rustgis.app - Download: downloads.rustgis.app - Documentation: rustgis.app - GitHub: github.com/opengeos/Rus... - Release notes: github.com/opengeos/Rus... #GIS #Rust #OpenSource #Geospatial #Cartography #3D #RemoteSensing

Dynamic duckdb brings SQL to virtual Zarr mdsumner.github.io/virtualized/

The Australian newspaper has been claiming a "forensic audit report" shows BoM's temperature data has "widespread error". For 15 years climate sceptics have been claiming a conspiracy around the data. Is anything different this time?

The PM has been telling everyone to turn the temperature down. He might want to have a word to Lachlan Murdoch about turning the temperature up with climate-denying conspiracy theories about BOM manipulating temperature data. #auspol

🛰️ Open Source Tool of the Week: WebODM! Turn drone photos into detailed maps, 3D landscapes and elevation models. Great for environmental research, agriculture and surveying. Open source can map the world! 🌍 webodm.org #OpenSource #Linux #WebODM

My British partner has introduced me to a piece of media called "Countdown" that she alleges is actually some form of entertainment?

I had Claude restore a version of @ocks.org wonderful For Example hypertidy.github.io/playproj/exa... 🙏💯 (Soon on CRAN in #RStats form as {bigcurve})

Observable now has a default `db` in every notebook powered by @duckdb.org (wasm) that lets you query over file attachments. No setup, no preamble, just query! observablehq.com/@observableh...

great day to be a dog at the beach!!

Stumbled slightly teaching #rstats ggplot2 today until I remembered the palmerpenguins vs penguins situation. Debarcle! Up there in competition with Microsoft for worst reimplementation of existing concept.

Being community minded creatures, we can guess at a penguin take.

It’s never been easier to make your own personal website in R. Here’s my guide, which includes instructions on importing your publication list from Zotero dsquintana.com/posts/quarto... As a bonus I made a website builder app that does mostly automates this dsquintana.shinyapps.io/website-buil...

PyTorch won’t be unseated by JAX, nor anything that NVIDIA invents. It will be unseated by DuckDB.

I made an AI video about genzplyr and I lowkey love it. It's also 100% slop. In this post I dig into what makes something slop, when it's ok to share it, and how to avoid it in work that matters. Read more at: substack.hadley.nz/p/what-is-slop

I've done a bunch of work on haven recently, so if you rely on it you might want to try out the dev version: github.com/tidyverse/ha.... One of the headline features of the upcoming work is that write_sas() finally properly works! #rstats

my-cran-watch kicks serious package status buutt #RStats github.com/mdsumner/my-... Anyone can fork it, set your own prefs etc make it your-cran-watch: mdsumner.github.io/my-cran-watc...

"deploy this shiny app" 🐇 is all it took to deploy an app to @ricochet.rs Our new Claude Code and Codex plugins makes pushing to prod a whole lot simpler for data scientists. 👇 An actual recording of deploying an app. #rstats #databs #julialang #python #claude

The most underrated thing about teaching Intro to R is that you get to choose how cohorts of #rstats users will go on to pronounce package names dplyr? dplyr? Or is it dplyr? They don't know, but they don't know that you don't know either!

Massive formal upgrade and robustifying of our cloud-enabled GHRSST cog/geotiff store source.coop/ausantarctic... #ausantarctic #cng #source.coop Indexes coming soon to adding to the flat and STAC geoparquet to feed and satisfy all your Zarr and GDAL and QGIS and R and wasm and more engines

I've got mixed feeling about Claude and agents in general, but if we can make the part **after** you build something as simple as a single sentence, that is the ergonomics I think we all need.

i did it! i went from crashing my computer by using up all of my RAM to reading/cleaning the data a 1 minute without me noticing

@mdsumner.bsky.social I'm not fully sure I know what "compare my docker layers hypertidy/gdal-r-ci (latest) to conda" means, but if I can help please tag me in any relevant GitHub issues.

> If conda[-forge] aligns versions ...across platforms and is recent that's very attractive Yes, see some of the points in Chris's Zulip server response (linked in bsky.app/profile/matt...).

> ten years ago ... it was so blatantly not fit for purpose. I just didn't go back it was so ridiculous. I had a very similar experience in 2014 and I described myself as a "conda hater". Then in 2023 Pixi was created, I learned about it, I tried it out and I fully changed my views.

I realized that the conda packaging standards are great and I had really bounced off hard of the tooling and infra at the time. I'm now a big proponent of conda-forge (as you can tell by me not shutting up about this). :P

terrio uses crates.io/crates/wbpro...

T minus 6 days until our trip to visit these lovely beings 🌎🧪🦉🦑 (Photo under permit AMLR 2025)

Amy Acton is running against former GOP presidential contender Vivek Ramaswamy for governor of Ohio. She knew when she decided to run that the attack ads were inevitable. But what happened yesterday was beyond the pale. Link in comments.

Yeah it's making me feel a bit sad and more conflicted about it all! Getting less and less keen to share stuff with the wide ranging opinions floating around these days... Should I submit that real gdal bug that ai found or not?!

There's a bitter taste to devs being told off for being too ... literally whatever ... atm Everyone is standing on someone's damn lawn, take a chill pill gawd.

Alright handsup all you treacherous worms, who's vibing a RIIR GDAL ... I'm reminded of fortunes("diamond") #RStats 😂

RustGIS now maps the Moon, Mars and beyond 🪐 Try it out - Launch the web app and switch to Mars: web.rustgis.app - GitHub: github.com/opengeos/Rus... The desktop apps get it in the next release. #GIS #Rust #OpenSource #PlanetaryScience #Mars #Moon #Geospatial

My response to criticisms about my recent open-source projects (GeoLibre, RustGIS, terrio): www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-res...

Introducing terrio: geospatial data I/O in pure Rust! terrio reads, writes, converts and reprojects geospatial rasters, vector data and point clouds, with no C dependencies. No GDAL or PROJ to install. Try it out - Documentation: terrio.opengeos.org - GitHub: github.com/opengeos/ter...

TIL of `arrow::map_batches()`: just converted 2gb of CSV files (11.2m rows) into geoarrow in 0.3s 🫢 #rstats

tigris v2.3.0, one of the major milestones from this summer's R Consortium grant, is now on CRAN. - The package has a modern httr2 backend now, which will help the package last into the future; - New features include `population_centers()`, shown here; - The open issue count is now at zero!

🖇️ readxl 1.6.0 is released 🖇️ It includes fixes for several CVEs and can read password-protected xlsx files 🗝️ #rstats readxl.tidyverse.org/news/index.h...

Anyone contemplating voting for Hansons looters have a look at trump’s pillaging of the US. Buyer beware.