Apr 30, 2026 12 min read Building AI Cloudflare JavaScript Geographer Stack π³ From a Pile of Bookmarks to a Searchable Cookbook A one-tap recipe pipeline with Cloudflare Workers, Claude, and a static site. No database, no friction, versioned data for free. Read post β
Apr 9, 2026 7 min read Archaeology Python LiDAR GitHub Actions βοΈ SOLSTICE β Watching the Same Sky Over Chaco Canyon A 1054 CE supernova painted on a canyon wall. Pueblo Bonito's rear wall aligned true north within 0.1Β°. Casa Rinconada's northeast doorway catching the summer solstice sunrise at 66.5Β°. A live dashboard watching the same sky over the same canyon, updated every 12 hours. Read post β
Apr 9, 2026 7 min read Geology USGS Python Leaflet π AFTERSHOCK β Real-Time U.S. Seismic Activity Monitor Every magnitude 1.5+ earthquake in the US, updated every six hours from USGS ComCat. A dark cinematic map, state deep-dives, Hiroshima equivalent energy readout, and the personal backstory of growing up on the Melones Fault Zone in Tuolumne County. Read post β
Apr 2026 6 min read Ecology iNaturalist Death Valley Leaflet πΎ DIPODOMYS β A Data Portrait of Death Valley's Kangaroo Rats Two kangaroo rat species, one valley, and what citizen science data from iNaturalist reveals about habitat partitioning in the hottest place on Earth. An interactive portrait built on live occurrence data. Read post β
Apr 2026 5 min read Community GIS Leaflet Lakewood WA Civic Tech π Little Free Pantry β Mapping Food Access in Lakewood Interactive Leaflet map for the Lakewood Rotary's Little Free Pantry network β 7 pantries providing 24/7 no-barrier food and hygiene access across Lakewood, Tillicum, and Steilacoom. GIS as community infrastructure. Read post β
Apr 7, 2026 8 min read Remote Sensing Sentinel-2 GIS Python π°οΈ Sentinel Stockpile β The Economy You Can See From Space 12 months of ESA satellite imagery tracking lumber stockpiles at the Port of Longview, Washington. 47 hectares in July. 5 hectares in January. The Pacific Northwest timber supply chain, measured from orbit using free data and open tools. Read post β
Apr 7, 2026 6 min read Meteorology Python GitHub Actions Pacific Northwest π‘οΈ Weather Station β Four Climates, Zero Dollars, Half a Cup of Coffee A real-time weather dashboard monitoring Lakewood, Groveland, Reno, and Death Valley. Wind compass, pressure trend arrows, NWS alerts, moon phase. Built before the coffee was done. Read post β
Apr 2026 7 min read Volcanology Python USGS KΔ«lauea π PELE β Building a Live KΔ«lauea Dashboard for a Birthday Trip 43 eruption episodes, a webcam buried under 10 meters of tephra, and a cron job running every 6 hours. Real-time data from USGS HVO, YouTube livestream auto-discovery, and an episodic fountaining log going back to Christmas Eve 2024. Read post β
Apr 2, 2026 8 min read FORTRAN Meteorology SNOTEL Pacific Northwest FORTRAN, Snowpack, and the Language the Atmosphere Speaks NWS runs FORTRAN. NCAR runs FORTRAN. ECMWF runs FORTRAN. So does a developer in Lakewood, WA β analyzing Cascade snowpack at 15% of normal, every morning, over coffee. Read post β
Apr 1, 2026 8 min read COBOL Hydrology USGS Sierra Nevada COBOL, Streamflow, and Artemis II A 1959 language fetching live government telemetry, running in a cloud CI/CD pipeline, on the day four humans left Earth's orbit for the first time since 1972. Read post β
Apr 2026 7 min read GIS LiDAR forge3d Python Exploring forge3d With Washington LiDAR A new GPU-accelerated terrain renderer built in Rust, shipped as Python wheels. Mount St. Helens, Crater Lake, and what 1-meter LiDAR does to a summit render. Read post β
Mar 31, 2026 5 min read Python pixi GIS Environments Why I Switched to pixi for Managing Python and R Environments After years of conda headaches, a faster, more reproducible path to geospatial work. Lockfiles, cross-platform consistency, and no more environment corruption at the worst possible moment. Read post β
Mar 18, 2026 6 min read Hydrology USGS GitHub Actions Sierra Nevada Building a Live Streamflow Dashboard on a $0 Budget GitHub Actions, USGS APIs, and a healthy respect for Pacific snowmelt. How the Sierra Streamflow Monitor became the architectural template for everything that followed. Read post β