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Recognition AT LAST

Right let’s get this over with early…

INTERNATIONAL MEN’S DAY

Thursday 19 November 2026

ORGANISE YOURSELVES

Trying to implement proper capsule-convex polyhedron collisions, so that the player's head doesn't end up inside other objects. It almost works, but there are a few literal edge cases I'm missing 😅

When autocorrect becomes convenient

☝️ that's the tech excellence benchmark

Rasteret 0.3 : EO image datasets should be tables, not folders Index COG metadata once into Parquet, skip cold starts forever. Filter with DuckDB, train with TorchGeo, fetch pixels on demand. 20x faster runs

Releasing Rasteret 0.3.x 🚀
EO image datasets should be in tables, not folders. Something for your weekend coding bug!

We prove this in our new blog explaining how we use Apache Arrow, Parquet and our custom IO engine to redefine how to interact with EO imagery!

blog.terrafloww.com/eo-datasets-...

Pangeo Showcase: “No shard feelings: GeoZarr rendering in QGIS, powered by GDAL” (March 4, 2026 at 12 PM ET) Title: “No shard feelings: GeoZarr rendering in QGIS, powered by GDAL” Speaker: Wietze Suijker When: Wednesday, March 4, 2026 at 12 PM US Eastern (2026-03-04T17:00:00Z (UTC)) Where: Launch Meeting ...

We're kicking off the 2026 Pangeo showcases at 12 PM ET on Wednesday, March 4! Wietze Suijker will be presenting GeoZarr rendering in QGIS, powered by GDAL 🚀🌏 Hope to see you there!

discourse.pangeo.io/t/pangeo-sho...

Just went to my local library and found out where it all went wrong had 50 people on the reserve list. Thank you - I really, really appreciate the effort and the curiosity to understand our world a bit better 🩷

Has Claude fixed auot incorrect yet

(By emielscartoons on IG)

This new era of coding, my benchmark is create test document and get a package on CRAN on your phone in an hour or two.

Nothing else ticks the bar of challenging plus genuinely worthwhile and useful

Geology is always breaking news

omfg my life just improved, search for

"how to make windows list files in alphabetical order without temporal grouping"

¡Rosario! ¡Eres el último concierto de la gira! ¿Quién está listo para rockear en el Bioceres Arena el 5 de marzo? ¡Traigan el ruido, nosotros nos encargamos del resto! Puertas a las 8 p. m.

Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot

The precedent is eerily, chillingly precise. What the current Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is doing to immigrants and refugees today is almost a carbon copy of what Sir William Joynson-Hicks was doing 100 years ago. And that's not a good thing. My column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

McGovern: How the hell is this America first? You guys broke your top campaign promise. Good luck with that. I hope the defense contractor money was worth it. Shame on you all. The mask is off. You're all just a bunch of pathetic Neocon Warmongers.

I presented at Shiny in Production 2025, an incredible conference hosted by @jumpingrivers.com up in Newcastle! I was glad to share the very latest from the Shiny team directly. The topics were bleeding edge at the time, so still new and relevant now. My video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxai...

I wanted to compare the CRAN submission experience to other languages, so I took my #rstats contoso package which is basically queries a S3 bucket and sets up a local duckdb database to load the data and build a equivalent package in #python, #julia and #lua.

SITUATION: somebody always posts XKCD 927 as if everyone hasn't already seen it thousands of times over the last 15 years

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) rendered on a 3D globe with the curious choice of removing the oceans so the back sides of land masses are visible.

I am not quite sure what to make of these globes rendered without oceans. #dataviz

From: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We're boiling the ocean

Anthony Albanese’s Iran war lies will be his John Howard moment Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his government are openly lying and deceiving the public in relation to the Iran war and the Australian government’s support of the war which will Albanese’s John [...

AUKUS Albo.
kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2026/03/04/a...

One weird pattern from playing with Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI:

Claude Code loves to use bash and python, even when working on R code (and then gets confused since there is no 🐍installed)

Copilot, with the same models, seems to naturally know to use R and powershell

must be time for bed I just hallucinated "you visit *too* often"

Damnit, the good Albanese

Adelaide University cancels literary festival event with UN Gaza investigator Francesca Albanese Festival organisers criticise the university for last-minute booking cancellation of event headlined by special rapporteur for Palestinian territories

Zionist really are just universally shitty people.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

Arrest the goddamn president

Kyle and Jackie O’s controversial breakfast radio show taken off air after hosts fall out Australian Radio Network accuses Sandilands of ‘serious misconduct’ after Henderson says she ‘cannot continue to work’ with Kiis FM co-host

It’s kind of astonishing and heartwarming just how universally despised both of these ghouls are.

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

Cut-price Costello Tim Wilson on Sky just now: "It’s very clear to me that when there’s an increase in petrol prices, Jim Chalmers collects more excise revenue."
Excise is not based on price changes. It's indexed twice a year in line with inflation.

¡CHILE! ¡Estamos en Santiago esta noche en el Teatro Teletón!

La carrete empieza a las 19:00.

www.eventrid.cl/eventos/aten...