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FORTRAN · Python · SNOTEL · Meteorology · Pacific Northwest
NWS runs FORTRAN. NCAR runs FORTRAN. ECMWF runs FORTRAN. So does a developer in Lakewood, WA — analyzing Cascade snowpack at 15% of normal, every morning, over coffee.
Read post →COBOL · Python · USGS · Hydrology · GitHub Actions
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 →Python · GIS · LiDAR · Terrain · forge3d
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 →Python · R · Environments · pixi
After years of conda headaches, a faster and cleaner path to reproducible geospatial work on Windows.
Read post →Python · GitHub Actions · USGS · Hydrology
How I built a live Sierra Nevada streamflow monitor using the USGS public API, GitHub Actions for automation, and Leaflet for mapping — with zero infrastructure cost.
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