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sgillies

@sgillies@mastodon.social

(b. 1969, he/him) Is it dinner time yet? Until then: trail #running, #gardening, #chickens, #python, dad jokes, spatial data infrastructure, software, and systems. Made in Utah, living in Colorado.

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sgillies, to random
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I just encountered a beautiful garter snake in my backyard, inside the wire fence that keeps our chickens out of the raised beds. I hope it stays safe and avoids the six ravenous murder birds out there.

jacob, to random
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I wanna hear about the best concerts you’ve been to! Some of mine:

  • Ozomatli at The Catalyst - played until curfew, spilled out onto the street and jammed for another hour until the cops came
  • Flaming Lips at Liberty Hall - second set, played the entirety of Dark Side
  • Dar Williams at Liberty - power went out, she sat on the edge of the stage and played three songs by flashlight
  • Joni Mitchell, Brandi Carlisle, et al at the Gorge - simply magical
sgillies,
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@jacob

  • Camper Van Beethoven at the Speedway Cafe in SLC, 1987. The whole show sandwiched inside a version of Interstellar Overdrive.
  • Hot Rize/Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers, The Blasters, Queen Ida, Eek-a-Mouse, Throwing Muses at a U of Utah music festival, 1988.
  • Sleater-Kinney and Pearl Jam at the Pepsi Center in Denver, 2003.
  • King Gizzard at Red Rocks, 2022. Their first show there, they were pumped.
  • Yo La Tengo at Washington's here in Fort Collins, 2024.
jacob, to random
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Just got back from a week backpacking and canyoneering in Utah, and I ... I think the sandstone wore off my fingerprints!? At least, TouchID hasn't worked since I got back. Wild.

sgillies,
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@jacob Escalante? Paria? Worth the loss in my opinion.

sgillies, to random
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Saw a pair of Black-headed grosbeaks at our backyard feeder this morning. Such a handsome bird. Ebird shows a couple reports of Blue and Rose-breasted grosbeak in town. Would love to see those birds again.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Black-headed_Grosbeak/overview

sgillies,
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Two male Lazuli buntings now. So cool.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Lazuli_Bunting/id

tartley, to random
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Late last night in deepest Minnesota the gravel roads were dotted with people's cars pulled off to the side in remote dark spots, like it was some sort of country wide make-out contest. Will the aurora provoke similar madness tonight?

sgillies,
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@tartley I totally had that feeling last night, or of looking for a quiet dark spot to smoke some weed.

sgillies, to random
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Mild aurora and great company this evening. The teens were impressed.

dangillmor, to random
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Big-time sports is part of the gambling industry now. This will end predictably, with scandals that make people assume everyone in the -- whatever -- game is corrupt.

https://defector.com/sports-is-betting-it-all-on-gambling?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

sgillies,
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@dangillmor "About 1 percent of Americans have a gambling disorder; the consequences of problem gambling are terrible, doubly so in a country with a dogshit social safety net."

AlSweigart, to random
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    sgillies,
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    @AlSweigart c'est pas un jean (in francophone reply guy voice)

    sgillies, to random
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    After I run, I'm going to try to overwhelm my sinus crud with cheesy fire chicken. This is a sauce of ginger, garlic, soy, gochujang, various fresh and dried red peppers, and Sprite.

    sgillies,
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    The final product, looking amazing.

    sgillies,
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    @underdarkGIS it's this one https://www.seriouseats.com/korean-style-fire-chicken-buldak-with-cheese

    caseynewton, to random
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    As publishers weigh whether to sue LLM makers or negotiate deals, it's hard not to wonder if they've taken their eye off the actual near-term future. With @zoeschiffer https://www.platformer.news/publisher-ai-deals-openai-alden-microsoft/

    sgillies,
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    @caseynewton @zoeschiffer there was more to the old internet than the content, wasn't there? The old internet was made of people.

    sgillies, to random
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    It's lovely out here before the storm.

    rjhale1971, to random
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    MAGIP and TNGIC in 2024

    I just came off two conferences with one being in Montana and one being in Tennessee. Both Geo related. It was my first time attending the MAGIP conference. Not that you need a long overly drawn out review of both - here are some of the highlights: TNGIC was fun. It was a different approach this year focused on people more than "the usual conference thing".

    https://www.northrivergeographic.com/magip-and-tngic-in-2024/

    sgillies,
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    @rjhale1971 wait, they'd rather use stolen bad software than free good software?

    sgillies, to random
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    "the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice" feels as true today as it was in 1963.

    https://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/teagle/texts/martin-luther-king-jr-letter-from-birmingham-jail-1963/

    hugovk, to python
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    Hey! I will (I state numerally) to Python, enact the three fullstop four-teen release managerrr, yes.

    https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-14-3-15-release-manager/51812?u=hugovk

    sgillies,
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    @hugovk Excellent news

    sgillies, to gardening
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    Cucumber, melon, and zucchini update.

    sgillies, to random
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    Resetting the "days since someone used ChatGPT to submit a nonsense bug report to one of my projects" counter to 0.

    sgillies,
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    @leahawasser not fake, but they used ChatGPT in submission of a bug report that isn't valid, it's not a bug.

    acdha, to random
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    “If Uri wanted to start a discussion about journalism at NPR, he succeeded, though maybe not in the way he intended. His colleagues have had a rich dialogue about his mistakes. The errors do make NPR look bad, because it’s embarrassing that an NPR journalist would make so many.”
    https://steveinskeep.substack.com/p/how-my-npr-colleague-failed-at-viewpoint

    sgillies,
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    @acdha I agree with Inskeep that NPR goes above and beyond to air conservative voices. Often with nonsense beliefs and bad faith arguments. It's not NPR's fault that Hunter Biden's laptop was a nothing burger.

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    @acdha I think I just heard on the radio that he's free to go on "Woke is killing NPR" tour full-time now. Can't wait to hear the views he's been forced to keep inside for so long 🙄

    sgillies, to python
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    Thinking out loud in a PR comment, I said that utility methods and classes borrow against the long term maintainability of project to attract new, entry-level users. Am I off base here? Actual package maintainer advice only, please.

    hugovk, to python
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    🥚🐰🛞🐍 Exciting!

    I'm doing the first @pillow release using cibuildwheel + PyPI publish GitHub Action + Trusted Publishers!

    It'll take just under three hours to build 68 wheels and an sdist, and then upload them automatically to @pypi 🤞

    The matrix covers CPython 3.8-3.12, PyPy 3.9-3.10, manylinux, musllinux, macOS Intel + Apple Silicon, Windows 32-bit + 64-bit + ARM...

    Follow along the Easter fun at https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/actions/runs/8506382482 !

    sgillies,
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    @hugovk Ah, yes. I'm in a similar situation with https://github.com/rasterio/rasterio-wheels, which is modeled after pillow-wheels in a lot of ways.

    I'd love to ask for advice on how to avoid homebrew libraries when building rasterio's many dependencies. It seems like the number of installed homebrew packages on GHA runners is increasing with every runner image release and I see more and more conflicts. Is there a particular forum where I could ask you and other pillow-wheels maintainers?

    sgillies,
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    @hugovk Will do!

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