Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse
- charlie@planet.parts
- work
- geographical pixels
- where
- Xučyun/Oakland, Ohlone land, western Laurentian accretions
- who
- him
You know him on the internet. Eucalypt-adjacent; very occasional writer. Consulting and passively looking for work in geospatial, image processing, and related fields.
Joined Apr 2022
@urschrei I feel like one of my only semi-useful skills in geospatial is having some slight intuition around what’s going to be fast or not, and now I guess I just don’t.
@ceejbot And rob myself of the joy of writing a custom sorting function and yelling at people who don’t use it? Don’t be naïve.
Charlie Loyd
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The documentation for this image processing library is one of the most interesting things I've read in weeks:
https://github.com/celoyd/potato/blob/main/docs/personal.md
https://github.com/celoyd/potato/blob/main/README.md
https://github.com/celoyd/potato/blob/main/docs/concepts.md
Philosophical discussion of the nature of seeing and what am image is vs a map, fascinating technical details about how satellite imaging works and why it looks as bad as it often does, a lot of really thoughtful conversation about engineering and aesthetic process, and even an amusing unit of measurement — grams per terrapixel.
@nasser Also one named Hemnry V.
@kyle I really appreciate that. I wrote the kind of thing I would want to read, is the short version. And although I spent a reasonable number of hours on it, I think the secret is really that it was slow – the hours were spread over years. Unfortunately I think the organization suffers from my lack of outsider perspective.
@martinfleis Following up: I lean on your concept in https://github.com/celoyd/potato/blob/main/docs/concepts.md and https://github.com/celoyd/potato/blob/main/docs/personal.md
Charlie Loyd
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You know when someone says something like “My therapist let me know a really interesting trick:” and then they say something that’s an obvious solution to a problem you cannot imagine having? You’ve seen a little too deeply into their worldview? This is how a lot of year-end lists come across.
Charlie Loyd
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Happy holidays, fediverse!
I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.
@jenlowe This is probably weird to say, but you were one of the people I had in mind as a reader of the documentation.
@marcpfister It’s a real pleasure to work with data that’s both (1) good in itself but also (2) sensibly arranged and documented.
@nelson Thank you! And yeah, I do not want to become an amateur community manager ;)
@kyle Hey, I appreciate that!
The most important part of Potato for me is its colors. For more than a decade, in several workplaces, I’ve griped about how standard pansharpening renders colors. It’s been gratifying to show what I think is a better way.
So if you work with satellite imagery, I hope Potato makes good holiday reading. If you don’t, I hope it gets you interested. And if you’re hiring for skills shown in it (chewy, cross-disciplinary spatial/visual/etc. work), drop me a line.
- charlie@planet.parts
- work
- geographical pixels
- where
- Xučyun/Oakland, Ohlone land, western Laurentian accretions
- who
- him
You know him on the internet. Eucalypt-adjacent; very occasional writer. Consulting and passively looking for work in geospatial, image processing, and related fields.
Joined Apr 2022
