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Written by Kelsey Jordahl on 2025-01-23 at 02:25

Sentinel 2 false color NIR image of the #HughesFire at 10:44 am PST today, Jan 22. Calfire site lists the incident start time as 10:53 am.

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Written by Kelsey Jordahl on 2025-01-22 at 22:03

The last Wayback Machine snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20250119225002/https://www.nasa.gov/odeo/diversity-and-inclusion/

Back up any USgov sites you depend on, quick, they could go away at any time.

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Written by Kelsey Jordahl on 2025-01-22 at 22:01

NASA's DEI page has indeed gone dark: https://www.nasa.gov/odeo/diversity-and-inclusion/

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Written by Kelsey Jordahl on 2025-01-11 at 23:26

Also every time I look at the storage size it is a different number. Is it 7.1 GB? 5.6 GB? 🤷‍♂️

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Written by Kelsey Jordahl on 2025-01-11 at 23:21

On the one hand, the whole backup is ~7 GB, which is fine these days I guess? On the other, is most of this data just saved state and cache that I don't care about keeping? Don't all these apps already know everything I've ever done on every device anyway?

And of course it is not worth spending much time on cleaning it up unless hitting some storage limit.

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Written by Kelsey Jordahl on 2025-01-11 at 23:18

Getting ready for a new phone, and looking at how much space apps take in my iCloud backup. By far the largest app by backup size is the NY Times app, at 1.3 GB. Astonishingly, it seems to back up its own cache to iCloud storage. What is the point of that? Why would I want anything backed up from this app, with the possible exception of login credentials?

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Written by Kelsey Jordahl on 2025-01-09 at 19:16

SkySat images of the #PalisadesFire yesterday, RGB and false color near infrared.

https://pal.planet.com/portals/5j5nhp9z/GeneralLACountyFires

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Written by Kelsey Jordahl on 2025-01-08 at 20:42

Wait, this is his actual zuck at threads dot net avatar? hahahaha, sigh.

I've now blocked the domain. I don't follow anyone over there, but had occasionally seen boosts from Barack Obama and Joe Biden. I will not miss it.

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Written by Kelsey Jordahl on 2025-01-08 at 00:51

Also visible in the fire temperature composite view (though not as well in the GIF download) at https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes//wfo.php?wfo=lox

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Written by Kelsey Jordahl on 2025-01-08 at 00:48

[#]PalisadesFire blowing up this afternoon as seen by #GOESWest

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Written by Kelsey Jordahl on 2025-01-03 at 04:04

I wonder how many "high IQ" individuals they found willing to work for free for more than a few weeks.

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Written by Kelsey Jordahl on 2025-01-03 at 04:03

oh, right, this was from when they were recruiting "high IQ" people to work 80+ hours/week for no pay, and only accepting applications by DM from paid X accounts. What a joke! (Not that it is very amusing at this point)

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Written by Kelsey Jordahl on 2025-01-03 at 00:31

Hopefully everyone else will give up and move on to the next project after 4 weeks like this guy already did.

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Written by Kelsey Jordahl on 2025-01-03 at 00:29

This sure raises a lot of questions, beyond the eye-roll-inducing title. The hiring process for DOGE is apparently, "be a millionaire and call up some of your friends"? They are not an official government agency in any sense, but they are hiring already and spinning up fast? Are they paying people, or do you need to be independently wealthy? Who exactly is going to be making decisions and policies in this shadow organization?

https://vinay.sh/i-am-rich-and-have-no-idea-what-to-do-with-my-life/

'Within 2 minutes of talking to the final interviewer for DOGE, he asked me if I wanted to join. I said “yes”. Then he said “cool” and I was in multiple Signal groups. I was immediately acquainted with the software, HR, and legal teams and went from 0 to 100 taking meetings and getting shit done. This was the day before Thanksgiving.'

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Written by Kelsey Jordahl on 2025-01-02 at 06:05

We have data

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Written by Kelsey Jordahl on 2025-01-02 at 05:32

This library does indeed work for me (with one small fix), and I'm able to get identical data for Strava activities that came from a Garmin one. Should work well enough for backup purposes for me for now, and I may play with it more later.

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Written by Kelsey Jordahl on 2025-01-02 at 02:45

And of course someone has already made a library to dump GPX files from the Strava API: https://jamesephelps.com/2024/07/18/how-to-get-gpx-files-from-the-strava-api-strava2gpx-python/

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Written by Kelsey Jordahl on 2025-01-02 at 02:15

Each seems fragile enough that I wouldn't be eager to support something that depends on them. Either company could change on a whim. For my own uses, they will probably be fine, particularly thanks to active maintainers of the client libraries.

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Written by Kelsey Jordahl on 2025-01-02 at 02:14

The Strava client (https://github.com/stravalib/stravalib) is also well-maintained, and not too hard to use after jumping through some hoops for authentication. It uses a real public API which looks well documented. It seems that you can't download GPX files directly, though, so you need to parse and create GPX, which I haven't done yet. There is yet another Python library, stravaweblib, that adds web scraping to API access, and can download GPX (among other things) like you can on the web site. So I've still got a little work to do to get GPX files for Strava activities. Most of them are from Garmin activities anyway, so I will need to do some kind of deduplication if I'm going to do anything with them.

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Written by Kelsey Jordahl on 2025-01-02 at 02:08

The Garmin library (https://github.com/cyberjunky/python-garminconnect) works great, but IIUC it is not using a public API, but basically reverse engineered the API that Garmin apps use. It broke between the time I first installed it a month or so ago and using it more today. Something had changed on the Garmin end without warning, and the Garth maintainer that python-garminconnect depends on updated pretty quickly. So maybe not the most reliable thing in the world.

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