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GeoPlay @geoplay.bsky.social · 1d

Is Portland Burning? I think not! isportlandburning.com

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

GeoPlay @geoplay.bsky.social · 9d

Hacktoberfest starts tomorrow - join us and contribute to open source, let's make great software www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...

Our Third Hacktoberfest: Celebrating Open Source in 2025

Join Esri for Hacktoberfest 2025! Contribute to open source, learn, and collaborate with the developer community this October.

www.esri.com

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GeoPlay @geoplay.bsky.social · 16d

share your views about using AI to write code, take our survey on AI for developers survey123.arcgis.com/share/b134e9...

Esri Developer - AI Survey

Customer survey on AI-usage for software development tasks.

survey123.arcgis.com

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GeoPlay @geoplay.bsky.social · 22d

Another day, another security breach: "Resilience now comes from identity hardening and pipeline policies, not hope that upstream stays clean." www.ox.security/blog/npm-2-0...

180+ NPM Packages Hit in Major Supply Chain Attack | OX Security NPM Supply Chain Hack: 40+ Packages Compromised Shai-Hulud,

@ctrl/tinycolor and 40+ NPM packages trojanized in major attack, exposing developer credentials and cloud secrets. Shai-Hulud,

www.ox.security

GeoPlay @geoplay.bsky.social · Sep 9

SEO is not dead yet. The evidence from this study shows that LLM traffic is not delivering a measurable conversion advantage over organic at this stage. www.amsive.com/insights/seo...

Does LLM Traffic Convert Better Than Organic? A New Data-Backed Study

Our most recent data study tests if LLM traffic converts better than search. Discover the results for a better understanding of how LLMs are driving traffic.

www.amsive.com

GeoPlay @geoplay.bsky.social · Sep 6

Look into my eyes

GeoPlay @geoplay.bsky.social · Sep 6

Mission critical

GeoPlay @geoplay.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hack LLMs from Gary Marcus and Nathan Hamiel "LLMs were hallucinating the names of software packages that didn’t exist. Slopsquatters capitalized on this by creating malicious software packages under those names and waited for developers to implement them" garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-codin...

LLMs + Coding Agents = Security Nightmare

Things are about to get wild

garymarcus.substack.com

GeoPlay @geoplay.bsky.social · Aug 17

Which is it?

GeoPlay @geoplay.bsky.social · Aug 15

Beautiful night in Portland

GeoPlay @geoplay.bsky.social · Jun 11

since the WWDC keynote on Monday I'm seeing Liquid Glass everywhere, it is such a hot topic, best to stock up before it sells out!

GeoPlay @geoplay.bsky.social · May 27

Everyone likes my post! Gotta keep on posting

GeoPlay @geoplay.bsky.social · May 21

I scored 16,304 with 9 correct of 12 questions on The Nutrition Quiz. Can you do better? Play The Nutrition Quiz at killerquiz.com/1040. #trivia #killerquiz

The Nutrition Quiz | Killer Quiz

Test your knowledge of good nutrition and stay focused on your best self.

killerquiz.com

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · May 8

Not unrelatedly, I just learned via @badastronomy.beehiiv.com.web.brid.gy that one of the White House's chosen 'influencers' believed that dark phases of the Moon were proof it was *actually, physically gone*, & went into a public panic over it last October:

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/an-example...

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GeoPlay @geoplay.bsky.social · May 8

Developers - check out our live stream featuring updates to game engine SDKs and developer resources to help you build amazing apps with Esri location services www.youtube.com/live/KTaistH...

What's New: Esri Developer Experience (May 2025)

YouTube video by Esri Developers

www.youtube.com

Reposted by GeoPlay

Derek Law @gisbandit.bsky.social · May 1

In 1 week, #Esri webinar: What's New: Esri #Developer Experience (May 2025) tinyurl.com/3s2d8utp

#geodev #esridev #GIS #arcgis #GISChat #geospatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #TheScienceOfWhere #geosky

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GeoPlay @geoplay.bsky.social · Apr 17

interactive globe from NYT depicting immigration and emigration www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | An Interactive Map of Global Migration

Dive into a new data set released by Meta, charting immigration flows among 181 countries over four years.

www.nytimes.com

GeoPlay @geoplay.bsky.social · Apr 14

It’s a beautiful day, don’t let it get away

GeoPlay @geoplay.bsky.social · Apr 12

I scored 16,328 with 9 correct of 10 questions on The Killer Quiz: City View. Can you do better? Play The Killer Quiz: City View at killerquiz.com/1109. #trivia #killerquiz

The Killer Quiz: City View | Killer Quiz

Test your knowledge of these popular cities around the world. You are given the aerial view of city, you must choose the best match to the city that is represented by the location.

killerquiz.com

GeoPlay @geoplay.bsky.social · Apr 8

AI: it can write code, but do you know it is the right code?

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GeoPlay @geoplay.bsky.social · Apr 5

When blogging for developers try to get two questions answered as quick as possible: 1. Is this article for me? 2. How will I benefit from reading it? refactoringenglish.com/chapters/wri...

How to Write Blog Posts that Developers Read

Software bloggers can make the same mistakes for years that prevent readers from discovering their writing. I know because I'm one of them. Over time, I've learned techniques that help some blog posts...

refactoringenglish.com

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GeoPlay @geoplay.bsky.social · Apr 4

This is the least transparent government I ever witnessed. Yeah I know they keep telling us this is great, meanwhile I can no longer afford kibbles and litter

GeoPlay @geoplay.bsky.social · Apr 4

All we had to do was nothing things were going just fine, and then for no reason we now have complete chaos

GeoPlay @geoplay.bsky.social · Feb 11

@mcuban.bsky.social is looking for a map, anyone in the GIS community have a solution to share?

Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Feb 10

Is there anyone out there that is mapping any delayed or cancelled federal payments ? Would be really interesting to see which towns and cities are going to be hit

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GeoPlay @geoplay.bsky.social · Jan 31

this is the most uninformative graph I have ever witnessed, or am I missing something? Why even graph this?