Justin Gosses Personal Website

Exploration of using the Turing tests imitation game as a conceptual model to think about different generative AI interactions in 2026 by varying the original game parameters to map to real-world scenarios.

Explains how to use instruction files to guide GitHub Copilot to help you consume less risky code dependencies.

A primer on data dot gov for people talking about it in the news and on social media

Using Internet Archive Wayback Machine and data.json to detect missing datasets

What a relative elevation map referenced against large rivers and coastline can tell us about why Buffalo Bayou flows east instead of south south east like many rivers in the area.

A look at how metadata from code repositories and package managers can be used to create new open source experience.

A post mortem on a prototype web application that generates geology field trip statements for point locations.

Sharing what you build with those that you built upon puts energy back into the open source and open data systems.

Why I joined the Public Interest Tech Webring.

Thoughts on request request for information on NASA's proposed public access plan

How to find repositories ideal for first-time contributions without having to read 2000 READMEs.

Learnings from an experiment to see if a large language model could be used to generate geologic descriptions of arbitrary point locations around the world.

Thoughts on why the traditional "What Eats What For Breakfast" thought pieces should be an ordered list rather than comparison of two items.

A hackathon project to get floodplain map data delivered as speech and experienced while on the move.

Learnings from adding RSS to this next.js website

Lessons learned trying to find GEOJSONs of FEMA floodplains.

A blog post describing moving this website from WordPress to Next.js & TailwindCSS.

A post laying out information useful for finding a NASA contractor position.

What if Awesome Lists were not just lists, but enabled views of the open source community?

Wellio & Wellioviz are open source JavaScript libraries for converting LAS well log files into JSON and viewing them in the browser.

Creating New Metadata from Old Metadata Using Machine-Learning: A Poster Presentation at American Geophysical Union Conference 2019

Stratigraphic pick prediction via supervised machine-learning: Predictatops

This post is directed at houston-based geoscience types starting off on a month to years long process of improving their skills in data science and maybe eventually getting a job in data science.

A collection of hypotheses, ideas, and biases related to predicting chronostratigraphic surfaces in well logs.

This weekend I finally got to do a hackathon project I have been wanting to try for more than two years.

Four conferences, two hackathons, and a lot of meet-ups: Analyzing what I have gotten from technical gatherings outside of work this year.

Presenting at Johnson Space Center Data Science Day on the history of data visualization tooling.

Blog post about setting up my first personal seismometer.

Blog post about setting up my first personal seismometer.

Presented a talk at Houston Data Visualization Meetup on THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF DATA VISUALIZATION TOOLS IN LARGE ORGANIZATIONS.