RustProof Labs 🐘🌎

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Database and GIS nerd. Focused on Postgres, PostGIS, OpenStreetMap, distracted by everything else!

Regularly post to https://blog.rustprooflabs.com/

Bloghttps://blog.rustprooflabs.com/
Bookhttps://postgis-osm.com/
Why do people send SQL code in `.txt` files? Weird.

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.

#Branson #Clinton #EatTheRich #Epstein #MAGA

Speed up JOIN Planning - upto 16x Faster!

Blogs about a few things, though mostly Postgres

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

Improved Quality in OpenStreetMap Road Network for pgRouting - Blog @ RustProof Labs

PgOSM Flex 1.1.2 supports pgRouting v4.0! πŸŽ‰

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!!

https://pgosm-flex.com/routing-4.html

#postgis #postgres #openstreetmap #pggrouting #performance

pgRouting 4 - PgOSM Flex User Guide

PgOSM Flex provides high quality OpenStreetMap datasets in PostGIS using the osm2pgsql Flex output

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

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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/

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take yearsβ€”DOGE wants it done in months.

WIRED
It's bumming me out to see so many universities forcing their English departments to put on a "English Majors Are Useful Too" promotional campaign to justify their existence when my experience out on the job market right now is HOT DAMN THIS ONE CAN WRITE A SENTENCE
@kgjenkins If I had a way to actually contact someone I would. Know someone at Box?