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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I'm not sure it's worth putting the blog back up on my domain, but it's now on Github so I can use the material for a project I'm working on. github.com/schwehr/old-...

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GitHub - schwehr/old-blog: My blog posts up to 2014

My blog posts up to 2014. Contribute to schwehr/old-blog development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I had Gemini 4 Argon read through images in my old blog & creat markdown descriptions. Taking a peak, it's mostly amazing, but then there was "standard तीन-blade", a mix of Hindi and English. In English, this means "standard three-blade". Here is the text and the xray emitter. Check the alt text!

$# Scintag XDS 2000 X-Ray Diffraction Emitter Assembly (`xrd-xray-emitter.png`) ## Overview A close-up photograph taken through the tinted lead-glass safety window of the Scintag XDS 2000 X-ray diffractometer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) Analytical Facility, showing the X-ray tube housing and emitter assembly during operation. ## Scene & Hardware Description - **X-Ray Tube Housing**: A machined, rectangular silver/beige metal column tilted at an angle on the left side of the goniometer arm, secured with recessed hex bolts along its metallic side plate. - **Radiation Warning Label**: On the top surface of the emitter block is a yellow and black caution sticker featuring the standard 3-blade radiation hazard trefoil symbol. - **Illuminated Red Warning Indicator**: Attached to the side of the emitter column is a rectangular translucent red plastic light bar containing multiple bright red/orange LEDs illuminated to indicate that X-rays are actively being generated (`X-RAY ON`). - **Collimator / Divergence Slit Assembly**: Protruding to the right from the circular mounting hub on the emitter housing is a smaller boxy silver/gray metal collimator block with a small dark aperture slit on its right-facing end, aimed toward the sample stage. - **Goniometer Mount & Tinted Glass Reflections**: Behind the emitter is the circular beige goniometer track and mechanical mounting hardware. The warm amber/yellow color cast and faint horizontal reflections across the image come from shooting through the protective leaded glass enclosure.$

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's been a long time since I've posted any Google Maps base layer processing errors, but here is one from Chicago Midway. It's the shadow of a plane, but no plane... maps.app.goo.gl/x9XqKCVkcLaq...

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Adopting Pyrefly as the Python type checker at Google opensource.googleblog.com/2026/10/adop...

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

til; ULP - unit in the last place or unit of least precision en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_in...

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Unit in the last place - Wikipedia

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And just like busses and inverters, any gear can have supply chain attacks already in them including undocumented networking gear. Not to mention the software stacks on any device.

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This pod cast is both great and terrible at the same time. Systems on ships and ports are often just normal systems under the hood and face the same issues as any critical computing platform. Issues start with MS Windows plus how do they update and secure those machines? youtu.be/5kkP-3d_8ac?...

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HACKED! Are Commercial Ships Being Targeted by Cyber Attacks? | Maritime Cyber Security Deep Dive

YouTube video by What's Going on With Shipping?

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

An interesting article that I found via Security Now... 1password.com/files/resour...

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Definitely need to track and evaluate these. Some are great and some are likely to be a source of trouble. Collab would be awesome!

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

On my reading list by @brunosan.bsky.social: (edited) "reviewed eighteen frontier-lab models. Not one documents Earth-observations or Earth-observation benchmarks. Absence of evidence, not evidence of absence. Geo is not a publicly stated architectural priority." www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-g...

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What if there is no GeoAI — just AI?

Those of us at the intersection of EO and AI still have a lot to bring, but further maturing a separate domain might not be the most impact-driven path. This is the article form of the talk I gave at ...

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Today I first heard of "Hexagonal architecture" (a.k.a. "ports and adapters architecture") in software engineering. "Alistair Cockburn in 1994 and formally published or written up in 2005." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagon...

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Hexagonal architecture (software) - Wikipedia

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Surprised by the surprise about LLMs and agents 1. Steve Gibson surprised agents are just a stream of tokens with tool usage etc. are just tokens in the stream - just hints. 2. OpenAI & others are surprised that LLMs + harnesses under test escaped schwehr.blogspot.com/2026/09/surp...

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Surprised by the surprise about LLMs and agents

Two things recently surprised me in the world of LLMs and agent harnesses. My surprise is that these people are surprised by what they found...

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm trying out vertical tabs on the left in Google Chrome. Currently feeling super awkward with them. Yes, it's a better use of screen real estate, but I'm much slower right how and I can feel the cognitive friction.

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

An Earth Engine update: The resampling method for exporting floating point GeoTiff and COG images has changed to `CUBIC` from `NEAREST`. It's still `NEAREST` for integer images. developers.google.com/earth-engine... #earthengine

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

~10 years ago I created autotest2 inside Google to help test GDAL as I wasn't able to use autotest in Google's test environment. The test code isn't very exciting, but it's nice to see that code is still doing its job: github.com/OSGeo/gdal/p...

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gml: Explicitly initialize memory for szStartTag by 1-z · Pull Request #15149 · OSGeo/gdal

What does this PR do? Similar to szSRSName above this, we should explicitly initialize szStartTag. This is done for szSRSName for some time, but omitted here. What are related issues/pull requests?...

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

What do people think were key new things for GIS during 2025? Comments here, comments on the issue, or PRs all welcome. Additions or corrections for prior years are always welcome. github.com/schwehr/gis-...

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Entries for 2025 · Issue #23 · schwehr/gis-history

Currently only have: 2025-04 - Biomass satellite launched Candidates: AI / LLM LLM models getting better at coding Which specific models were key milestones? Lidar stuff? Drones? Imaging sensors And?

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Thank you to Casey for this amazing talk. This talk sent me down memory lane to times long ago. I talked to Knuth a couple times as an undergrad. I sat through Ulman's intro to CS class (one of the Dragon book authors), and I spent a bunch of time with punch cards & Fortran youtu.be/hpj6r6CjJf8?...

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Casey Muratori – The Root of The Root of All Evil – BSC 2026

YouTube video by Better Software Conference

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Being that I was recently working with the Dulwich python package for git, I thought it was especially fun to hear about how folks serve up git at scale. youtu.be/AFQW-b2WaRU?...

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Cursor's Github Replacement

YouTube video by The PrimeTime

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I look forward to checking it out. I presume it's about this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_U...

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Great Unconformity - Wikipedia

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Actress Hayden Panettiere has died, her representative confirms. She was 36 abcnews.com/US/hayden-pa...

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Ugh. I know we are all overworked open source maintainers, but when you say "I don't mean to be rude"... I'm trying not to waste peoples' time. Security is a royal pain in the ass, but attackers have lots of resources and people get freaked out about SHA1 & MD5. github.com/pyca/cryptog...

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I just released github.com/schwehr/bitv... This release was primarily focuses on extensive code cleanup, linter adherence, and testing improvements. It involves setting up pylint configurations (including the pylint-pytest plugin) and refactoring code across the repository to address linter rules.

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Release v0.0.4 · schwehr/bitvector-modern

What's Changed chore(pre-commit): add pylint hook and configuration by @schwehr in #125 chore(BitVector): Fix pylint unused variable warning by @schwehr in #126 refactor(tests): simplify empty seq...

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I'm excited for my first real release of BitVector modern in version 0.0.3. There are lots of API cleanups and performance improvements. However, it's still not ready for anything more than experimental use. schwehr.blogspot.com/2026/07/bitv...

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bitvector-modern release 0.0.3

I just did the first proper release of bitvector-modern with version 0.0.3. I hadn't setup 2 factor authentication (2FA) for my personal P...

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Nice to see follow ups to Listen for Whales / Whale Alert. I am just starting to listen, so I can't comment much youtu.be/brnCealGvk0?...

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Nature Integrated Routing for Whales & the Environment

YouTube video by Maritime Reporter TV

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Yes, there are templates that do a lot of this, but I am trying to learn as much as I can. I hope to do the same with my old noaadata pure python AIS package and that is going to be a challenge. It's in rough shape. github.com/schwehr/noaa...

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GitHub - schwehr/noaadata: Pure python AIS decode and encode

Pure python AIS decode and encode. Contribute to schwehr/noaadata development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

What's up in Santa Cruz you ask? "Gore Whore met during Lloyd Kaufman’s frantic filming of Poultrygeist 2: Dawn of the Chicken Dead, in Santa Cruz over the last year (it arrives on screen this summer)."

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

My mom proof read a chapter of my PhD thesis. She said she was unsure what a lot of the nouns and verbs meant. But she did catch a lot of mistakes.

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I'm trying my best to create a version of python packaging best practices with a limited amount of time. Making more progress with bitvector-modern... schwehr.blogspot.com/2026/07/pyth...

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Python packaging best practices

There are so many possible ways to go with python packaging that it's painful. I'm still working more on bitvector-modern. I just setup cod...

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

3 blog posts in 3 days. Going back 20 years in style of my writing - get it done quick and get it out. Today, it's fixing the first CVE reported on libais. schwehr.blogspot.com/2026/06/fixe...

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Fixed libais CVE-2026-56770

This is a weird milestone: libais got its first CVE. CVE-2026-56770 is a crash coming from my 03f1c92418 where I did "vdm: int → size_t...

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A great horned owl staring down at me from the roof of our house this evening

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Compiling rust+bevy is slooooowwww. Even for really small games, demos, and tests.

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Truly open specifications are so important. m.slashdot.org/story/455698

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Slashdot

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Our apricot tree is doing better this year. Turns out we were putting softened water on it until this year. Sigh. The fruit are just starting to get ripe, but are pretty tasty when they have been sitting in sugar for a while.

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I've been exploring Rust using Bevy + Ratatui for some simple text based games. It's interesting, but the time required to build and test the games is painful for even small stuff. I'm assuming this is mostly because bevy is huge. A view of my yahtzee game...

A Rust + Bevy + Ratatui yahtzee text game in a terminal

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Kurt Schwehr @kurtschwehr.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I think this is a horrible attitude. If you don't like a projected saying no to some LLM contributions, then fork it and go your own way. Please give folks who work hard to keep projections usable for the long haul some respect. If you fork takes off, good for you. world.hey.com/dhh/let-the-...

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Let the agents democratize open source

The open source movement spent decades fighting for everyone's right to change software, through free access to code and permissive licenses to release improvements. But at the dawn of the AI revoluti...

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