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I have an old MacBook Pro 2016 Intel version that I was hoping to breathe some life back into.

I've worked in the fire technology space for 5 years now, leading teams building products and projects helping fire agencies figure out where fires are likely to go and surfacing the information to them at just the right time to help them make well-i

Some Sunday morning thoughts on where we're at in the software engineering industry with the prevalence of Generative AI.

(This was originally posted on the Kablamo Engineering Blog) I’ve always seen GDAL as the “VLC Player of geospatial data.”

Let's be honest, most one-on-one meetings are a waste of time.

As a software engineer working with geospatial data, I'm constantly creating or sourcing test data for my applications.

This article was originally published on the Kablamo Engineering Blog.

Working with AI can often feel complex, abstract and impenetrable.

How do you query millions of Australian building footprints – a 4.3GB GeoJSON beast from the Microsoft Global ML Building Footprints dataset – efficiently from a tiny AWS Lambda function?

Popcorn tasks A term that originated in my previous job at Propeller Aero.

For real-time transport data visualization, there is a standard called GTFS built on top of Protocol Buffers.

Today I wanted to create a gif of some weather imagery I exported from QGIS.

Cesium have released their new Moon tileset via their Cesium Ion service!

Did you know that often you can pop the console of a JS library website to demo the library?

The React 19 Beta release is out and the accompanying blog post is a great read.

What are Spectral Indices in Remote Sensing?

Yarn Berry Yarn Berry is the codename for Yarn version 2 and 3.

Question How many polygons can I get mapbox to render before it starts to get slow?

Tech we'll be using Mapbox GL JS A fantastic library for creating maps GeoJSON NPM package A package for working with GeoJSON [csvtojson NPM package](h

(This was originally posted on the Kablamo Engineering Blog) Application state in front-end clients is a complexity that is at best managed, and at worst the reason

I got interviewed about joining Kablamo, you can read it here https://www.itwire.com/people-moves/kablamo-taps-mcdowell-for-geo-spatial-expertise.html !

Let's say you've inherited a codebase that is in a bit of a dire state.

Warning: This is a stream of consiousness.

We've been gradually migrating our codebases from Flow to Typescript but sometimes we have to upgrade an old Flow codebase to a newer version of Flow.

We have noticed recently our Codeship Pro builds have been taking a very long time.

I got interviewed for work, you can see it here https://www.propelleraero.com/blog/meet-your-engineering-team-andrew-mcdowell/

Since taking on a leadership role, I’ve had to get organised.

If you work in a place that has lots of separate apps that all need a consistent look, creating a shared component library is a good idea.

As developers, we tend to like to optimise our processes, including debugging issues.

My good friend Chris Laughlin over at https://www.thedyslexicdeveloper.com put out a call for what his next blog post should be, I asked him for a run down of his typical day as we have similar titles, but I wa

This week I came across an odd behaviour that it took me a little while to figure out.

I approach different challenges in different ways.

Recently I was recovering data from one of my websites that had been unceremoniously taken down while I was on holidays when I got stomped for a little while on how to scrape an image and save it to file using NodeJS.

Lets say you have written a file uploader app and your users might upload 100s of files at a time.

What is Gatsby?

Building node-canvas for use inside an AWS Lambda is tricky as it requires some dependencies to be built by node-gyp against the target architecture.

I frequently experience periods of internet drop outs and wanted to build something to monitor my internet without any manual intervention.

import RedText from "../..

If you're like me and have just entered the world of Jest for testing your React application.

What is Yarn?

A while ago I published a comprehensive list of my favourite Atom Editor plugins, I've since moved to VSCode for the majority of my development so I thought I'd gather together a similar list for it.

You might have noticed when using webpack-dev-server that the CSS seems to appear on the page as if by magic.

I had a requirement to use CSS modules with serverside rendering, it took me a while to figure out so I thought I'd write the process down.

I've spent 3 days configuring Webpack and babel to deal with CSS Modules while doing server-side rendering.

###The Problem I recently published a package to npm and got an issue raised on Github to tell me that the build artifact hadn't been published.

I was writing an express application, when I started to notice one of the routes was taking quite a while to respond to a request.

Async/Await for me is one of the best things to not quite happen to JavaScript yet.

We have been using ES7 Async/Await with babel-plugin-transform-async-to-module-method and bluebird co-routines for about a month now.

Why would you hash your assets?

Webpack's Provide Plugin allows you to set up variables that get injected into your code when they are used in your codebase.