I stopped using Twitter a while ago. Then it was rebranded as "X". I dithered about deleting my account. Would it be taken over by crypto scammers or an 18 year-old Russian army private or contractor? I've come to the conclusion that I don't care anymore. They can have it if they want. I've downloaded my archive and clicked "deactivate your account".

If you see a post from an @sgillies on X, it isn't me.

Saturday, I reported that I was laid up with a back injury. I'm feeling better today. The pain is manageable and I've been able to spend about half of my time awake upright, standing or sitting on my bed, with regular breaks to touch my toes and do the yoga half lift to stretch my back. I even managed to run a little bit yesterday while helping a guy who was the victim of a hit-and-run incident. Car on car, to be specific. No one was injured, as far as I could tell.

Ban cars. Ban injuries.

In a Mastodon thread about "GeoAI" today, I blurted out:

Uh huh. It's CyberGIS all over again.

We don't talk about CyberGIS anymore. I think it's going to be the same for "GeoAI".

I knew that a second Trump presidency was very possible, but I'm still surprised that most American voters chose this sociopath. It's super disturbing to see the veneer of decency entirely stripped away from this country. Apparently, this really is who we are.

If you're not already using pytest's tmp_path fixture, you really should. The fixture provides a temporary directory for testing use. A directory that you can't reference from other test runs or from other test functions in the same run, but that isn't immediately deleted when your tests finish. The directory is created in your account temporary location and is eventually cleaned up by your computer's operating system. Until then, you can open the directories and their files in other applications.

I've been making assertions on datasets in Rasterio's tests and also dragging them into QGIS for a closer look after the tests finish.