Ian Hunt-Isaak Xarray Community Developer Matt Iannucci Software Engineer As a distributed team (of weather and climate geeks), we love finding ways to connect. So when a nationwide winter storm rolle...

James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

We have recently dramatically improved the performance of Xarray’s Zarr backend. This post explores how we’ve improved the “time to first byte” metric, building on Zarr-Python’s new asyncio internals.

Posted on Bluesky earlier this evening, other major outlets have since confirmed.

MacKay’s challenge is highlighting a prime source of the dysfunction and complacency many observers see on Beacon Hill: the singular lack of competition for political office in Massachusetts.