Bill Dollins

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Runner. Coder. Database hacker. Accidental geographer. Perpetual novice. Chaotic neutral.
bloghttps://blog.geomusings.com
"Field of Dreams" hits a little harder after your father has passed away.
I’m sure there plenty of reasons to be unhappy with Anthropic, but I’ll allow myself to be happy with them today.
As an inveterate early riser who’s been working mostly alone for the past three years, I’m having to get back in touch with “scheduled send.”
I’m happy with how they turned out.
General trend I’m seeing via GeoFeeds is that company blogs increasingly do not have RSS feeds, whereas independent/personal blogs do. It’s not universally true but seems to be trending that way.
The most important geospatial app you will see today: https://www.whereisitfiveoclock.beer
Where is it 5 o’clock?

Rainy Sunday kitchen time with my wife.
The circadian rhythm that wakes me up at 0400 is a drag sometimes.

How OOP Helped Me Understand AI Agents

I first encountered the term "agent" more than 20 years ago, when I was working on an agent-based modeling system for simulating infrastructure inter-dependencies. Imagine an agent representing a power plant that has gone offline and an agent representing a telecommunications end office switching itself to battery backup and tracking how many simulation cycles the batteries will last. We called them "intelligent agents" but they…

https://blog.geomusings.com/2026/02/11/how-oop-helped-me-understand-ai-agents/

How OOP Helped Me Understand AI Agents

I first encountered the term “agent” more than 20 years ago, when I was working on an agent-based modeling system for simulating infrastructure inter-dependencies. Imagine an agent repr…

geoMusings by Bill Dollins

Ten years ago, I wrote about the geospatial landscape as I saw it then. Ten years later, I decided to take another look.

https://blog.geomusings.com/2026/01/28/post-gis-revisited/

“Post GIS” Revisited

One of the advantages of writing a blog for nearly twenty years is that you can go back and see how some of the things you wrote about have held up over time. Suffice it to say there are a number o…

geoMusings by Bill Dollins