Garrett Speed

Final cut slice of pie. The pie has a yellow color with bits of pistachio on top. The slice is facing away so we can appreciate the crushed digestive cookie based crust. With the slice on the small white plate is a pile of pie parts that I scraped off the pie pan, and a cheese slicer because I don't have a cake serving knife.

The cooked pie just out of the oven with pistacchio just sprinkled on top. The pie now has the yellow finished color to it

Pie just going into the oven. The pie itself is an off white color at this point, and it sits in a green round pan where the edge can be removed

Felt an little homesick, so for pi day this year I made key lime pie. 🔑 🍋 🥧

#baking #pi #pie #dessert

RE: https://norden.social/@wackJackle/116200267162290355

Fantastic comparison of information revolution timelines (printing press era, modern era). Bravo @adapalmer 📚 🌍

QGIS 4.0 Norrköping is released!

The wait is over! We are pleased to announce the new major release of QGIS 4.0. Installers for Windows, Linux, and Mac are already out. What's new? On the surface, existing users should expect to engage with a QGIS experience familiar to what they have come to […]

@qgis windows installer has software signature warning
I look forward to playing with QGIS4 tomorrow

Krant met hoofdtitel "Treinen moeten bij"

@ns_online treinen moeten bij

Verbix screenshot for the Dutch word Donkeren, which is the verb to darken. The words on the page do not matter for this toot, but the style of the page does. The background of the page is dark gray. Pronouns are shown in a dark green, and the verb conjugation is shown in black, thus practically invisible.

Anyone know how to contact Verbix? They appear to have enabled automatic dark mode without checking how dark mode looks, or providing a way to go to light mode.

They have removed their email and their contact form doesnt work anymore.

#languages #darkmode #webdesign #accessibility

Just a random nerdy video about someone setting up their own AS Number, BGP routes, peering, and trying to figure out why their traffic from Finland, to Los Angeles, to Poland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmDXvTgg7-8

My WSL coding environment kicked the bucket this morning, with the age of my work laptop perhaps now is the time I have it converted fully to Linux.

Mushrooms on a tree at Vijfsluizen - 3D model by gspeed0689 Orange mushrooms on a tree in the natural area around Vijfsluizen in Rotterdam. - Mushrooms on a tree at Vijfsluizen - 3D model by gspeed0689

Photogrammetry, mushrooms on a tree near Vijfsluizen in Rotterdam
https://skfb.ly/pGJID

RE: https://mastodon.world/@LiseAndreasen/116001550181308993

I love it when art and geology come together

Screenshot from the game Sonnenwende, depicting solar panels, batteries, and hydrogen storage tanks.

I wrote a small game simulating the transition to a solar-powered economy. You can build solar panels, batteries, hydrogen storage and sell your generated electricity at market prices. Electricity demand, pricing, and weather conditions are based on realistic […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]

Mastodon bot idea
Give the bot a TOTP code and have it toot hints or fun facts about the number.

Effective immediately, I will be moving all my project's documentation from Discord, to frozen food review section of walmart.com.

Low point of view photo of a mallard duck where it looks like its just a head coming out of the ground.

The mallards are blooming early this year. The early bloom appears to have resulted in just the head growing, and not the rest of the fryer bound body. For the duck foragers, maybe let this seasons crop sit in place so their spores can propagate into full […]

[Original post on mapstodon.space]

@Sobex
Todo:
Get into lab
Put on goggles
Steal lab notebook
Spill acid
Building evacuated
Hazmat honked at

In both versions, the processing and the cartography were done in QGIS v3.44

#qgis

In case you missed my prior map version, find the thread here: https://mapstodon.space/@gspeed0689/115932860265028769

Overview of my Kintsugi map laying, this version compared to the previous map is darker. The ocean bathymetry is in dark shades of blue, and the elevation of the land is all in dark greens. There is a large legend and description in the top left. The legend contains the following text: Faults, Volcanoes, & Earthquakes of Japan This map exhibits the fault lines, volcanoes, and earthquakes of Japan, with these features highlighted in gold to emulate Kintsugi (written here is the Japanese text for Kintsugi, and also in gold). Kintsugi is a Japanese art form where broken pottery is repaired using gold. While these hazards lead to many breaks, the people of Japan come together to repair the damage and persist in the face of the many hazards of their archipelago. This map focuses on the main islands of Japan, the full extent of Japan is larger than what is shown. Earthquake data from the USGS. Elevation data from GEBCO. Volcano data from NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Fault data from the Global Earthquake Model Active Faults Database under CC-BY-SA license. This map was created by Garrett Speed, January 2026.

Detail view of the area between Tokyo and Nagoya, with Fujisan written in gold. The gold in this version is much more clear.

Detail of the text for Fujisan, the gold text in both the Latin alphabet and in Japanese Kanji is very clear.

Close up of the legend of the map. The legend contains the following text: Faults, Volcanoes, & Earthquakes of Japan This map exhibits the fault lines, volcanoes, and earthquakes of Japan, with these features highlighted in gold to emulate Kintsugi (written here is the Japanese text for Kintsugi, and also in gold). Kintsugi is a Japanese art form where broken pottery is repaired using gold. While these hazards lead to many breaks, the people of Japan come together to repair the damage and persist in the face of the many hazards of their archipelago. This map focuses on the main islands of Japan, the full extent of Japan is larger than what is shown. Earthquake data from the USGS. Elevation data from GEBCO. Volcano data from NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Fault data from the Global Earthquake Model Active Faults Database under CC-BY-SA license. This map was created by Garrett Speed, January 2026.

I learned a lot from the first gold foil map I had printed that I made an update.

I wasn't originally going to get another print, however I see that Prodigi has this method now available in the EU. I was also already going to send a copy to someone who […]

[Original post on mapstodon.space]

Nederlanders, PostNL stuurt vak een email dat mijn pakket is bezorgd. Maar mijn pakket komt eigenlijk naar mijn deur de volgende dag.

Is dit normal?
Ik had deze ervaring niet in Den Bosch of mijn eerste thuis in Rotterdam

#fosdem
I enjoyed the cave talk in the geospatial dev room. The presenter expressed frustration at the American cavers not wanting cave locations published.
There is a fungus killing bats in American caves so they would prefer locations not to be easily accessible, to prevent unknown people from […]

The railways dev room is fullfilling my #FOSDEM expectation of being full well before the room starts

Photo of the FOSDEM Geospatial dev room from the fourth room just right of center stage. The screen reads FOSDEM 26, Geospatial

I heard you should arrive early as the rooms fill up, but there still seems to be plenty of room in the Geospatial dev room

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026

On the Spatial Community I said I would try to put a cylinder on the Mercator statue in Brussels the next time I was there. I dont think I'll be able to fulfill that commitment

#fosdem

@sherbang are you on the eurocity 9212?

Booked the first train to Brussels for #FOSDEM but didn't check how i could get to Rotterdam centraal. Trip to fosdem starts now with a nice morning bike ride

I’m launching #QwastTube: a #PeerTube‑based, privacy‑friendly alternative to my YouTube channel.
If you care about digital sovereignty and open‑source GIS, this is for you.

I’m still importing videos, but it’s already live:

👉 https://videos.qwast-gis.com […]

[Original post on fosstodon.org]

Image Understanding | Spatial Understanding

Google maps screenshot of the AI generated image. The cited location is in a lake

@hareldan I like this shit GeoAI image I just found.

The cited location is in Lake Ontario

Those measurements are just crazy

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14GHz per second?
What does that mean? GHz is already a measure per second.

#SDR

I started a documentation repo for #FOSDEM advise - for new and old visitors, attendees and speakers. I figure we can crowdsource it so bring your pull-requests. I will greatly appreciate help.

If not, I will populate it myself slowly over time but it won't be as good […]

I had made the map in a bit of a rush as I wanted to get an order in last week before an event this week. I overset Atlantic Ocean over the edge of the frame. I also didn't check the way the symbology looked from the QGIS export vs what was in my map viewer. I should have also reduced the map […]