It’s Top 9, Giants down 8-2 to Milwaukee, and the tarps are off to the tune of “Fuck the Dodgers 👏👏👏👏👏”
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PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley EECS // Programming Languages • Human-Computer Interaction • Visualization • Cartography // Building alpha.cartokit.dev Software Engineer at @gristnews.bsky.social // Maps • Data • Graphics • Code
Now out in v0.19.1 of cartokit — remote PMTiles support! Paste a link to your (tippecanoe-generated) PMTiles archive and visualize, say, 8 billion building footprints in <1 second! As always, comes with full code generation for both MapLibre GL JS and Mapbox GL JS in JavaScript or TypeScript.
Andrew’s awesome, Hazel’s awesome, and this study seems super cool! Recruiting for these kinds of studies is also super hard, so sign up if you’re able!
andrew blinn@disconcision.com · 2mo agoWe’re doing a user study to find out how adding always-on live values alongside code effects writing and debugging experiences for functional programming. See reply for sign-up details
Getting our bell rung 11-2 on Opening Day but it doesn’t matter because the Ballers are back in season 💚💛
Increasingly convinced (from recent both on cartokit and at Grist) that DuckDB is an unbelievably good foundation to build web-based data tools on top of. Now that you can have a DuckDB-Wasm client talk directly to a DuckDB instance on EC2...damn.
DuckDB@duckdb.org · 3mo agoToday we are revealing the Next Big Thing for DuckDB: Quack, a protocol that turns DuckDB into a client-server database. True to DuckDB's philosophy, Quack is simple and fast. Setting it up takes seconds, and it works for both bulk operations and small write transactions. 🔗 duckdb.org/quack
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Payton Pritchard torching dudes twice his size will never not be enjoyable.
My lord, Cade Cunningham. These playoffs have a tremendous amount of juice.
The Sox with exactly seven wins in the Fenway Greens and every single one of them being a walk-off is absolutely ludicrous.
It's been awhile since a big cartokit release, but today's the day. Starting in v0.17.0, you can now download, save, and upload maps you've made in cartokit! Critically, maps are *just files*. Slack, email, text the file to a collaborator and they can see your same map instantly. No account needed!
Fitting that a Great Britain pitcher named “Scrubb” comes in and Schwarber absolutely tattoos one to the moon
Starting a Friday morning sipping coffee and reading @benclemens.bsky.social on the Sox offseason is just the freakin’ best.
FanGraphs Baseball@fangraphs.com · 6mo agoThe Red Sox Did It All This Winter blogs.fangraphs.com/the-red-sox-...
A lovely new feature added to cartokit by @arfamomin.bsky.social—importing data from the cartokit Data Gallery! Now, you don't need to have geospatial data on hand to get started playing with cartokit—just use some of ours 😄 More datasets coming soon! Credit to Arfa for the idea and implementation!
Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here:
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today. ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 7mo agoHmong man detained by ICE today in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Photo via Reuters)
Starting up a new Overleaf doc for a SIGPLAN conference, and seeing the template teaser figure with Ichiro walking up to the plate captioned "Seattle Mariners at Spring Training, 2010." further reinforces my deeply held belief that PL is the most baseball-adjacent subfield of computer science.
tfw you wake up to see your PhD advisor CRUSHING IT on @wired.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ_e... I’m amazingly lucky to work with @schasins.bsky.social every day! (Also, I promise I’m not the person in the thumbnail calling JS GOATED but it will always have a special place in my 🧡)
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If you’re curious to get a more extended walkthrough of how to use cartokit to program interactive maps, we’ve got just the demo for you! From raw GeoJSON to a production-ready graphic in about 10 mins!
Sarah E. Chasins@schasins.bsky.social · 8mo agoNew demo! youtu.be/rCPLSr79aGg Use Cartokit to map your data using familiar GUI-style interactions—and let Cartokit write the equivalent code for you. Try it out at alpha.cartokit.dev.
Out today on @highcountrynews.org—a look at the disparate impacts of PG&E's fast-trip outages on rural Californians, featuring reporting by Emma Foehringer Merchant and @mariaparazorose.bsky.social and graphics by yours truly 🙌 An honor to work on this one—give it a read! www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...
Man, I can’t stand the Dodgers but boy, do I love Shohei Ohtani. Just unbelievable.
As the resident baseball nerd of UC Berkeley’s CS grad program _and_ a massive Ballers fan, I always love reading Bryan’s thoughts. This piece is so dang good!
Bryan Cantrill@bcantrill.bsky.social · 10mo agoThere's an @oaklandballers.bsky.social parade tomorrow to celebrate their magical season, and it affords an opportunity to reflect on why this team is so meaningful to Oakland bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/10/04/a...
The end of the Red Sox season was emotionally crushing, but watching the Jays just absolutely body the Yankees is proving to be a pretty good salve.
To quote the immaculate Will Fleming: “CEDDANNE, SAY GOOD NIGHT!” GO SOX!!!!
Red Sox@redsox.com · 10mo agoYOUR BOSTON RED SOX ARE POSTSEASON BOUND!
