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Mike Moran

@houseofmoran.com

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software engineer, dad and baldie 🏠 : www.houseofmoran.com 🌎 : geo.houseofmoran.io

Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 12/09/2026

The quality of all the talks at @pydata.bsky.social Amsterdam was amazing but my favourite was "The unreasonable effectiveness of DAS: ML on fiber-optic vibration data for rail monitoring".

Presenter shows an x-y graph of backscatter per location over time, which clearly shows two lines. He then uses this to illustrate a fit of two lines representing trains.

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 07/02/2026

Book targeting 🎯 is becoming incredibly fine-grained nowadays…

Book title: “So you want to own Greenland?”

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 02/02/2026

A couple of hours and $8 of Claude later (!) I added a mini-blog to my fosdem site: fosdem.houseofmoran.io/blog/. I do have *other* reasons for doing this, like summarising data changes, but was also a good way to decompress after a very busy #fosdem weekend 😅.

summary of data about fosdem over time e.g. 2025 had 1105 events and 390h of videos.

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 10/01/2026

After six trains bouncing around the snow in Germany, back to watching the cat be excited about something in the garden

Congestion/delay/cancellation map of Germany

Cat interested by something in the garden

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 31/12/2025

Wandering in the snow at dusk

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 26/12/2025

As it often the case when I am in Germany, the topic of (painful) train travel came up, and in particular: is it quicker to go North↔South than East↔West? Me being me, I wondered if I could answer this with data: geo.houseofmoran.io/posts/2025-1...

Cities in Germany broken down into which quadrant they belong to (North-East, etc).

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 04/10/2025

Original post: digipres.club/@foone/11528...

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 26/09/2025

Original post: mastodon.scot/@Cyclist/115...

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 29/07/2025

Back in the 90's I remember one particular winter in Edinburgh when I was starting University, next to Pollock Halls, and my god it snowed. It was like, proper Winter Wonderland stuff. Since then? Hmmphf. So, is it snowing less? geo.houseofmoran.io/posts/2025-0...

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 28/06/2025

Quite nice to finally scratch an itch and (re-add) water support to my Biscuits #geo side project, this time in the Linzer incarnation: geo.houseofmoran.io/posts/2025-0...

Visualisation of water areas of Amsterdam, as they appear in the internals of the Linzer project when finding connected regions

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 21/06/2025

Original post: c.im/@cdarwin/114...

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Mike Moran @houseofmoran.com · 13/06/2025

People on LinkedIn are taking "Stealth Startup" a bit too far ...

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