Database and GIS nerd. Focused on Postgres, PostGIS, OpenStreetMap, distracted by everything else!
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Yay! JIT will finally be disabled in Postgres 19 by default. Enabling JIT as the default was a huge mistake in Pg12, glad it's finally being remedied.
You've seen how the monsters talk using email.
Now imagine the conversations they had at night by the fire, high on designer drugs and the certainty of their invincibility, stinking of booze and their victims' fear.
Now think of all the other billionaires who have islands.
I explored the data quality of the generated edge network in the legacy version vs the latest version... Woah!! 🤩 It's so much better now!
This post has my initial findings. I'm going to spend some time this week digging in further in Colorado where I actually know the roads!
#gischat #postgis #pgrouting #pgosm #routing
https://blog.rustprooflabs.com/2025/12/pgosm-flex-pgrouting-performance-quality-improvements
PgOSM Flex 1.1.2 supports pgRouting v4.0! 🎉
There's a new procedure to handle the creation of the routing network from the road data with fewer manual steps. See the documentation for the new process.
psst... it's also faster!!
Chris Krebs has quit his job at SentinalOne to launch a legal and public relations fight against Trump and the presidential memo Trump he signed against Krebs last week. "Krebs said he understood why some have kept a low profile and tried not to further anger the president. But he said he disagreed with that approach. "I don’t think this lay-low-and-hope-this-blows-over approach is the right one for the moment we’re in."
Miles Taylor who was also targeted by Trump said "the memos targeting him and Krebs were 'punishment for dissent' and that he too planned to fight back.... 'How we respond will set the tone inevitably for how others targeted by these EOs decide to respond.”
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/chris-krebs-trump-cybersecurity-executive-action-31cb99cb
Holy shit.
Just wow, wow, holy shit:
Completely rewriting a multi-million line COBOL codebase that has life-or-death consequences for real people in the space of a few months, using gen AI?
I’ve been writing software for 40-some years, and I have to say: this may be, without exaggeration, the stupidest software-related idea I’ve ever heard from leadership.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/
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