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My main issue shipping personal Rust CLI projects was convincing people, especially non-developers, to install a Rust toolchain.

Both my previous and current companies took satellite images from the Artemis II before its launch from the Kennedy Space Center on April 1st, 2026.

If your GIS system is based on the Python/Django/DRF/PostGIS stack, it is very common to perform geometry format conversions between its different layers.

Very cool video about the double-pendulum chaos simulation: Pushing Simulation to the Limit to Find Order in Chaos.

Looks like UUIDv7 is going everywhere!

When modeling your database, you’ll inevitably need to identify the rows in your tables.

When developing a system that needs to handle time, it is very common to need to track not only “when” something happens, but also “for how long”, for example: event calendars, taxi rides, etc.

On a previous article called "OpenStreetMap to GeoJSON", I explained how to extract Polygons from OSM using an online tool provided by OSM France.

This is a fun example of how to use Shapely to solve geographical problems.

Did you ever change your mind about your Django database structure?

Arrays in PostgreSQL are very useful to represent lists of data without the need of extra “many-to-many” tables, but to take advantage of them, you need to know the basics; follow this article to learn them.

When working with remote sensing, it is very common to save time data in a single timezone (usually UTC), this article shows how to convert that into local time based on the provided coordinates.

The company MODARTT develops virtual musical instruments, but not by sampling, they simulate the physics of pianos and organs by modeling how the air (or string for pianos) and the rest of the instrument resonates and transmits the sounds.

The Kaiju Preservation Society, from John Scalzi.

If you want to combine the power of Rust with the free-style research orientation of Jupyter notebooks, try using the Rust kernel on it; this allows for an easy prospective approach, making it very similar to Python.

Sometimes when dealing with coordinates, you may need to work in meters instead of degrees, but, since we don’t live in a flat earth, the calculation is not trivial.

Use OpenStreetMap as your repository of geometries, and export them in the more convenient GeoJSON format.

The JSON format is the backbone of current Internet protocols and APIs, and this article contains a list of tools to make a better use of it from the command-line, without the need of writing complex programs to read, search, parse, transform and transmit…

If you want to dockerize a GeoDjango project, the most common method is to use an official Python image as its base, and install all GIS dependencies over it, being GDAL the heaviest one, making your final image easily reach the mark of the multi-megabyte…

After the uncertainty from the Twitter’s nosedive, I decided to revive my blog following the POSSE philosophy (publish own site, syndicate everywhere).

Sherlock & Co: a modern take of Sherlock Holmes adventures, with Dr.

Paquito D'Riveria - Mozart's Adagio: a very “jazzy” interpretation of Mozart.

Festival Interceltique de Lorient 2023 (in France), with folk bands from all celtic spectrum: from the the classical irish/english ones, to the cultural mixes from Galicia and Asturias!

Gran Turismo: the first 10 minutes may give the impression that it would be a 2h game advertisement., but after the initial exposition it becomes a legit high-production sports movie, based on a real story of a gamer that became a real racing driver.

Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine: about the development of the James Webb Space Telescope, on Netflix.

Nuvole Bianche (while clouds) from Ludovico Einaudi: a rare mix of melancholy and positive contemplation!

Unravelling the Magic behind Polyrhythms: a very interesting coding video.

Delta-V Series, from Daniel Suarez, with 2 books: Delta-V (2019) Critical Mass (2023) This is a work of fiction, but very scientifically accurate and plausible for today’s or near-future’s technology.

Termination Shock, from Neal Stephenson.

Children of Time Series from Adrian Tchaikovsky: it is kinda of a “first-contact” scenario, but with a twist!

The episode Lula’s “zero deforestation” plan for the Amazon, from More or Less: a Podcast about statistics hosted by the BBC.

Chea de Vida from Guadi Galego: this is an unexpected mix of upbeat and melancholy, sang in the galician language.

Bee and PuppyCat: this is a cute animation that started as a Kickstarter project from an animator that worked on Adventure Time, and now got a fancy remake on Netflix.

Lost Terminal.

Lady Astronaut Series: it starts as alternate history and becones sci-fi: a meteor falls on earch in the 50s, starting a mass-extinction event process, that forces the countries to colaborate and bootstrap the space-age earlier.

The Ministry for the Future, from “Kim Stanley Robinson”: it is technically Sci-Fi, but depicts a present to near future with natural and humanitarian disasters triggered by climate change.

Project Hail Mary from Andy Weir: t has the same problem-solving vibe from The Martian, but written in a different, non-linear way!

Light Speed from Seeker’s YouTube channel: a close look into the race of solar cars that happens every two years in the australian Outback.

Connected on Netflix: it is a series of documentaries about unlikely connections around us.

Sergio on Netflix: it is about an UN human-rights representative who died in Iraq in 2003 and was responsible for the stablishment of East Timor in 2000.

The episode #158 The Case of the Missing Hit from the podcast Reply All: it’s a detective/archelogy work to solve a great musical mistery with a very satisfying end.

Apollo Guidance Computer Restoration on YouTube: this shows a many-month-task-force to restore one of the few surviving Apollo computers, they went very deep into the specifications, blueprints, and needed to borrow modules from other computers like it in…

Long time ago, when I lived in Brazil, I used to participate on the “New Media” movement.

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