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Kurt Schwehr

@kurtschwehr.bsky.social

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he/him; Geospatial, Geology, Geophysics, Software Engineering, Open Source, Open Data, Proj, GDAL, Ocean Mapping, etc. Cofounder of Global Fishing Watch, Whale Alert, NOAA's Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA), NASA Ames Viz&StereoPipe

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 1d

www.python.org/downloads/re...

Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 1d

Python 3.14 is out. Now I have to wait as the tree of dependencies get their releases out for 3.14 before I can enable it for my packages. It's always something 🤷🏻‍♂️

Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 1d

Sitting around waiting for the official release of Python 3.14. That is today, yes? ................ 😁

Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 1d

Sitting around waiting for the official release of Python 3.14. That is today, yes? ................ 😁

Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 4d

Tuning a base guitar when you don't know what you are doing is pretty intuitive with the Fender app

Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 11d

Railroad ties for our backyard improvement project. These will become stairs for our step hill that drops off behind our house.

Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 11d

Four Walls Falling was an American hardcore punk band from Richmond, Virginia, active between 1987 and 1995. Their most successful release was Culture Shock in 1991.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Walls_Falling

Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 12d

Toxic culture for sure. It's totally possible to create the kinds of connections and learning for remote people that Schmidt thinks require being in person.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 12d

“Fish” can refer to a single individual, or multiple individuals from the same species.

“Fishes” refers to multiple species.

🐠 Fish
🐠🐠🐠 Fish
🐠🐟🐡 Fishes

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 13d

Just got some thunder and lightnight about 10 minutes ago in Santa Cruz

Rob Mayeda NBC Bay Area @robmayeda.bsky.social · 14d

Strong thunderstorm prompting a special weather statement along the Diablo range / East Bay approaching midnight 9/24/2025 #CAwx

Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 14d

See great circles...

Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 17d

A nice "heredoc" tutorial for bash. And these...

bat - cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting and git integration
nl - number lines of files

youtu.be/-a1VAole01s?...

Heredocs in Bash! Understanding how they work and a few gotchas. You Suck at Programming #069

YouTube video by You Suck at Programming

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 17d

They’re just saying it out loud

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 17d

“limiting face coverings and opening officers up to prosecution would most likely hurt recruitment and drive officers from the state”

So nobody will want to be a police officer if they’re not allowed to commit crimes with impunity?

David Noll @david.noll.org · 17d

In response to California passing a law limiting law enforcement officers' ability to conceal their identities, the president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California contends that police are not subject to democratic control.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 19d

This is pretty cool! community.wmo.int/en/activity-...

Data Access and Use | World Meteorological Organization

community.wmo.int

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19d

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 19d

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.

one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 21d

I'm not sure how the updates are driven on the sponsor page, but it may be a bit before Google appears here:

gdal.org/en/stable/sp...

Sponsors — GDAL documentation

gdal.org

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 21d

As of just now, Google is again a Silver Sponsor of GDAL. Thanks to all the people in GDAL, NumFocus, and Google who helped to make it through the process. Big company processes can be challenging to navigate.

And a thanks to all the other sponsors! You rock!

github.com/OSGeo/gdal/p...

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 22d

Tonight's sunset in Santa Cruz, CA.

The sun struggling to get through the fog that rolled in about an hour ago and a palm tree.

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 23d

Then she did this one from memory...

Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 23d

Did a KPop Demon Hunter draw along with my daughter.

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 24d

Tick tock... I'm just sitting here waiting for @scalzi.com 's latest book, the Shattering Peace. As my kids would say, "I'm bored!"

1 day and 1 hour till I can listen to The Shattering Peace by Scalzi

Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 26d

Another Santa Cruz, CA sunset.

Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 26d

@globalfishingwatch.org Have any suggestions for a title that pops?

Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 26d

Ahhhhh. Foo(param1, param2, param3...) from "Standout BAD HABITS Even Senior Programmers Have"

youtu.be/nY6RExFP0G0?...

A "doIt" method with 200+ parameters named param1, param2... I ran into this pattern yet again very recent. Don't do it!

Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 28d

My spouse was having a hard time finding the correct URL for a particular open license. I just got to introduce her to spdx.org/licenses/ and that immediately solved her issue. Thank you to who ever is behind that list. You rock!

SPDX License List | Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX)

spdx.org

Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 29d

The spiders are sensing that Halloween is not far away.

A bush with spider webs and little red flowers.