Wow, real snow. It's been a minute.
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Sean Gillies
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(b. 1969, he/him) Is it dinner time yet? Until then: trail #running, #gardening, #chickens, #python, music, progressive politics, eating the rich, dad jokes, spatial data infrastructure, software, and systems. Made in Utah, living in Colorado. Wannabe European.
The ponderosa pine on the left side of the photo are threatened by a new outbreak of pine beetle. It's heartbreaking to think that we might lose all of our Front Range ponderosa forests https://www.cpr.org/2025/12/15/polis-executive-order-pine-beetle-outbreak/
A very runnable stretch of Cow Creek Trail in Rocky Mountain National Park. #FootpathFriday
T. J. Bombadil
The Cow Creek trail in #RMNP goes by some lovely aspen/spruce/fir forest. The aspen are just beginning to leaf out at 8,500 feet elevation. I think they'd prefer to be sleeping with their feet in the snow for two more weeks.
I will watch absolutely anything with Olivia Colman. What's next after The Night Manager?
Tim BrayThe software-dev community is many orders of magnitude too small to keep the bubble inflated.
And in fact #genAI works way better on code than on actual human language. Because the vocabulary is so much smaller and “doing the same as everyone else already has” is actually a good engineering practice.
So…
Electronic Frontier FoundationHey, greater NYC - EFF’s Cindy Cohn joined @WFMU and @markhurst’s Techtonic to discuss her new memoir, “Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance” from MIT Press and where the fights for privacy are headed. https://techtonic.fm/episodes/2026-04-13-cindy-cohn-author-privacys-defender/
Cindy Cohn, author, "Privacy's Defender" | Techtonic with Mark Hurst on WFMU
Cindy Cohn has led the Electronic Frontier Foundation for over a decade, fighting against government and Big Tech surveillance. She discusses her memoir “Privacy’s Defender” and why we should celebrate every small victory.
On minimal water, the trees in this town are still going for it.
They might have heard the news about the potential for a Super El Niño.
