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Sajjad Anwar @geohacker.in · Jul 30

Just arrived in Chennai to be at the NISAR satellite launch this evening from Satish Dhawan Space Centre as a NASA guest. I'm so honored to see this monumental collaboration between NASA and ISRO! science.nasa.gov/mission/nisar/

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Aysha Tanya @malabartearoom.bsky.social · Apr 16

Favourite bookstore in the city 🤝favourite cafe in the city. The new Champaca bookstore, that’s sharing space with Copper + Cloves and No Nasties, is lovely! #Bangalore

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Sajjad Anwar @geohacker.in · Apr 14

I'm so excited for this! Being able to preview work-in-progress directly in Jupyter without 'bouncing' to QGIS.

Matt Fisher @mfisher87.bsky.social · Apr 13

geojupyter.org/blog/2025041...

Community insight: 💃 The QGIS bounce 🕺 – GeoJupyter

A common pattern: Bouncing between writing an analysis in a Notebook or scripting environment and validating work in QGIS

geojupyter.org

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Sajjad Anwar @geohacker.in · Apr 14

Spent last week in Singapore attending #GeoConnectAsia2025, hanging out with some map needs, and enjoying delicious meals!

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Sajjad Anwar @geohacker.in · Mar 31

Eid Mubarak!

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Sajjad Anwar @geohacker.in · Mar 30

Same!

Sajjad Anwar @geohacker.in · Mar 30

Once again, openness. "The most interesting battle over AI may not be between the US and China, but between closed and closing societies, and nations that remain open to free speech and scholarship." www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/column...

The AI race shows no country can go it alone

The rise of China’s DeepSeek reveals the weaknesses of isolationism as an economic policy

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Earthmover @earthmover.io · Mar 28

1/ 🚀 Solving #NASA ’s cloud data dilemma: Icechunk unlocks 100x faster access to archival data formats

We're thrilled to publish results from our pilot project with NASA and @developmentseed.org to enable high-performance cloud-native access for NASA’s 100s of petabytes of Earth observation data.

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Sajjad Anwar @geohacker.in · Mar 27

Sending lots of strength to you and your dad ❤️

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Sajjad Anwar @geohacker.in · Mar 23

Denny from Tattle who organises reached out.

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Sajjad Anwar @geohacker.in · Mar 23

Went to Misinfocon yesterday. Haven't been to an event like this in Bangalore for so long! Learnt so much about what people are building to mitigate and educate around cyber scams, deep fakes and general lack of trust.

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Sajjad Anwar @geohacker.in · Mar 21

4.30am coffee

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Sajjad Anwar @geohacker.in · Mar 21

This is so delightful!

kottke.org @kottke.org · Mar 20

New issue of The HTML Review, “an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web”. Love the TOC interface — the web can still be fun! [thehtml.review]

Sajjad Anwar @geohacker.in · Mar 20

"More than 800,000 people were displaced and made homeless, the highest yearly number since records began in 2008". www.theguardian.com/environment/...

More than 150 ‘unprecedented’ climate disasters struck world in 2024, says UN

Floods, heatwaves and supercharged hurricanes occurred in hottest climate human society has ever experienced

www.theguardian.com

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · Mar 17

New Groundwork 02, our latest batch of experimental tools and open-source contributions, explores: 👇 :

📌 STAC APIs with stac-geoparquet
📌 AI-powered knowledge management
📌 Wildfire response data resources
📌 STAC Auth Proxy for access control
📌 GPU-native xarray workflows

ds.io/groundwork-02

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Development Seed @developmentseed.org · Mar 11

We launched a fun, educational project on cloud-native data formats. Our zine, 𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱, follows C.O.R.A and Vector, as they help scientists around the world tackle challenges with the aid of cloud data formats such as COG, Zarr, and Geoparquet.
ds.io/cloud-native-zine

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Sajjad Anwar @geohacker.in · Mar 10

Made soup

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Sajjad Anwar @geohacker.in · Mar 10

I've had to look up what a Paczki is and now I want one.

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Sajjad Anwar @geohacker.in · Mar 9

Looking through @malabartearoom.bsky.social's cookbooks to find a soup recipe for iftar today. Our friend is sending sandwiches. Mmm

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Kiri Carini @kiricarini.com · Mar 7

Please share! 👇

I know the job market is wacky right now with all the unjustly laid off federal employees. Come work with us and continue to make a difference!

Development Seed @developmentseed.org · Mar 7

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Join Development Seed to shape finance processes, support global impact projects, and work with a mission-driven, remote team tackling the world’s toughest challenges.

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Apply now: developmentseed.org/careers/seni...

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Sajjad Anwar @geohacker.in · Mar 8

Ramadan Mubarak! I've been waking up at 4.30am every day and making coffees. I'm a morning person for exactly 30 days a year.

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Sajjad Anwar @geohacker.in · Mar 6

Woah!

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Bill Greer @billfgreer.bsky.social · Mar 5

SatCamp Tickets are Live! Join us for SatCamp 2025: Resilience Through Uncharted Terrain!
📍 Boulder, CO | Sept 24-26
🎟️ Register now: satcamp.xyz
Let’s shape the future of geospatial together! 🌍🔥 #SatCamp2025

SatCamp 2025

SatCamp is a conference unlike anything you have ever attended. September 24-26, 2025. Boulder, Colorado, USA.

satcamp.xyz

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Sajjad Anwar @geohacker.in · Mar 1

studio.camp is at the MoMa! So incredible to see Shaina, Ashok, @batpad.bsky.social and the rest of CAMP crew's work last week. I've learned so much from Sanjay about videos over the years -- for telling powerful stories of people and places. www.moma.org/calendar/exh...

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Kiri Carini @kiricarini.com · Feb 18

A few pics from Day 1 of Team Week.

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