Hamish
@polemic.nz
Avondalian code-wrangler-wrangler • maps / data / product • 63D3 ADE1 5625 3865 • Engineering Manager • Opiskellen suomea • Ex @polemic on the bird app
Ok #gischat less than a week until @foss4g.org - the open, inclusive, educational and fun geospatial conference happening in Auckland from 17th-23rd November. 2025.foss4g.org - can I fit everything we're doing into one skeet (takes a breath)...
FOSS4G Auckland 2025
FOSS4G stands for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, a conference hosted in partnership with OSGeo.
2025.foss4g.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Ok #gischat less than a week until @foss4g.org - the open, inclusive, educational and fun geospatial conference happening in Auckland from 17th-23rd November. 2025.foss4g.org - can I fit everything we're doing into one skeet (takes a breath)...
My word of the year is "Fractional".
Mate, just say part-time.
Mate, just say part-time.
November 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
My word of the year is "Fractional".
Mate, just say part-time.
Mate, just say part-time.
Choose your fighter: medical efficacy study [in mice]; safety standard [based on 1950s white male]; sociological research outcome [using AI agents in place of humans]
October 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Choose your fighter: medical efficacy study [in mice]; safety standard [based on 1950s white male]; sociological research outcome [using AI agents in place of humans]
New Zealand used to have a spine on international issues. This is very disappointing, and the weeks of "wait and see" coyness from the PM is a bonus insult. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
NZ not yet recognising Palestinian state, Foreign Minister Winston Peters announces
The government has decided against recognising Palestinian statehood, retaining its "when, not if" position.
www.rnz.co.nz
September 27, 2025 at 12:27 AM
New Zealand used to have a spine on international issues. This is very disappointing, and the weeks of "wait and see" coyness from the PM is a bonus insult. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Hey #gischat don't forget to register for FOSS4G 2025. The schedule is up at 2025.foss4g.org. Just a few highlights:
- 4 amazing keynotes
- 44 workshops, 140 presentations, 50 lightning talks, 2 community days
- business 2 business, geochicas and gala dinner events
- movie screening
+ much more
- 4 amazing keynotes
- 44 workshops, 140 presentations, 50 lightning talks, 2 community days
- business 2 business, geochicas and gala dinner events
- movie screening
+ much more
FOSS4G Auckland 2025
FOSS4G stands for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, a conference hosted in partnership with OSGeo.
2025.foss4g.org
September 19, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Hey #gischat don't forget to register for FOSS4G 2025. The schedule is up at 2025.foss4g.org. Just a few highlights:
- 4 amazing keynotes
- 44 workshops, 140 presentations, 50 lightning talks, 2 community days
- business 2 business, geochicas and gala dinner events
- movie screening
+ much more
- 4 amazing keynotes
- 44 workshops, 140 presentations, 50 lightning talks, 2 community days
- business 2 business, geochicas and gala dinner events
- movie screening
+ much more
It's only a constitutional crisis if one or more branches actually dissented. No, the USA has a constitutional conspiracy.
The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
September 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
It's only a constitutional crisis if one or more branches actually dissented. No, the USA has a constitutional conspiracy.
Bit tired of the sci-fi fever dreams from people who don't have to fold their own damn laundry.
August 28, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Bit tired of the sci-fi fever dreams from people who don't have to fold their own damn laundry.
Earth Sciences NZ, our new center of excellence for environmental science in New Zealand, uses this image as their logo / hero image on their website. It's.. wrong. Wrong in a 6-fingered AI generated human way. Not an auspicious start to the agency's future. #gischat
August 1, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Earth Sciences NZ, our new center of excellence for environmental science in New Zealand, uses this image as their logo / hero image on their website. It's.. wrong. Wrong in a 6-fingered AI generated human way. Not an auspicious start to the agency's future. #gischat
Hey #gischat - you've got just 24 hours left to submit a talk or get early bird pricing for @foss4g.org - it won't be extended again! Community voting will start on over 200 talks and 40 workshop proposals from next week. 2025.foss4g.org
FOSS4G Auckland 2025
FOSS4G stands for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, a conference hosted in partnership with OSGeo.
2025.foss4g.org
July 17, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Hey #gischat - you've got just 24 hours left to submit a talk or get early bird pricing for @foss4g.org - it won't be extended again! Community voting will start on over 200 talks and 40 workshop proposals from next week. 2025.foss4g.org
Oh hai
Intro: Committee Members 😎
Events Lead, Hamish Campbell!
- software eng mgr
- 15+ yrs
- urban intelligence
- resilient communities + changing environment
- committed open source contributer
- chair FOSS4G Oceania Cttee NZ 2023
Connect: https://bsky.app/profile/polemic.nz
#committee #foss4g
Events Lead, Hamish Campbell!
- software eng mgr
- 15+ yrs
- urban intelligence
- resilient communities + changing environment
- committed open source contributer
- chair FOSS4G Oceania Cttee NZ 2023
Connect: https://bsky.app/profile/polemic.nz
#committee #foss4g
July 5, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Oh hai
We've just launched the new #foss4g2025 Auckland website! 2025.foss4g.org. Early bird tickets still available and CfP closing soon, so get in quick. Sales & submissions are going strong so get in quick, it's going to be a fun one. #gischat #osgeo
FOSS4G Auckland 2025
FOSS4G stands for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, a conference hosted in partnership with OSGeo.
2025.foss4g.org
July 1, 2025 at 2:47 AM
We've just launched the new #foss4g2025 Auckland website! 2025.foss4g.org. Early bird tickets still available and CfP closing soon, so get in quick. Sales & submissions are going strong so get in quick, it's going to be a fun one. #gischat #osgeo
Matariki / mid-winter soltice swim done ✅. Hard to beat Auckland, any day of the year.
June 21, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Matariki / mid-winter soltice swim done ✅. Hard to beat Auckland, any day of the year.
Never not a deeply interesting, insightful and relevant discord.
It's true that progressives valorize "ugliness." But I think this person doesn't interrogate this position enough and thus lands at the wrong conclusion.
Let me give you my perspective on ugliness. 🧵
Let me give you my perspective on ugliness. 🧵
June 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Never not a deeply interesting, insightful and relevant discord.
Exploring home with the new LINZ Auckland 2024 LiDAR capture (data.linz.govt.nz/layer/d3VcCb...)
June 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Exploring home with the new LINZ Auckland 2024 LiDAR capture (data.linz.govt.nz/layer/d3VcCb...)
Logo trends are interesting. Forget the omni-app rainbow, or tech blue-on-white, AI is all about the stark monochrome.
May 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Logo trends are interesting. Forget the omni-app rainbow, or tech blue-on-white, AI is all about the stark monochrome.
Newmarket has never quite figured out what it's for - and maybe the mall is bad for street retailers - but I don't recall them thriving during the rebuild. The mall was and remains the biggest draw to the strip.
Rare to see a story about business turnover grounded in evidence (the effect on Main Street retailers of giant shopping malls)
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3606...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3606...
Is Westfield's mega mall killing this Auckland shopping destination?
With 48 empty shops in the nearby streets, the Auckland suburb has struggled to cope with the demand of the Westfield mall.
www.stuff.co.nz
May 9, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Newmarket has never quite figured out what it's for - and maybe the mall is bad for street retailers - but I don't recall them thriving during the rebuild. The mall was and remains the biggest draw to the strip.
Wondered if there was a Māori name for Rosebank Peninsula. Got Google's confidently incorrect (and confusingly plausible) answer.
March 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Wondered if there was a Māori name for Rosebank Peninsula. Got Google's confidently incorrect (and confusingly plausible) answer.
Infrasnature
Quote skeet with a bridge from your gallery 📸
March 24, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Infrasnature
Hey Auckland, there's a lunar eclipse tonight! Full effect around 8pm. Low on the horizon to the east, should look pretty spooky. www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/n...
March 14, 2025 Total Lunar Eclipse in Auckland, New Zealand
Start time, end time, animation, and detailed viewing information for the upcoming eclipse in Auckland, New Zealand
www.timeanddate.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Hey Auckland, there's a lunar eclipse tonight! Full effect around 8pm. Low on the horizon to the east, should look pretty spooky. www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/n...
Ahhh the "Fremen mirage" enters the chat.
Musk thinks we are too soft, and will therefore destroy the very things that make western civilisation powerful.
Musk thinks we are too soft, and will therefore destroy the very things that make western civilisation powerful.
Musk states "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". Charles Darwin, who actually researched this stuff, showed it was empathy, specifically, that enabled humanity to flourish.
Government AI, defending DOGE and more: Takeaways from Elon Musk’s three-hour interview with Joe Rogan
The wide-ranging interview between the two prominent Trump supporters comes as Musk remakes the federal government.
www.politico.com
March 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Ahhh the "Fremen mirage" enters the chat.
Musk thinks we are too soft, and will therefore destroy the very things that make western civilisation powerful.
Musk thinks we are too soft, and will therefore destroy the very things that make western civilisation powerful.
The FOSS4G 2025 logo competition is running! You don't need to be a designer (we'll help the winner with professional design support) so get submitting ASAP 2025.foss4g.org/logo-competi...
FOSS4G 2025 - Auckland, New Zealand
2025.foss4g.org
February 28, 2025 at 2:45 AM
The FOSS4G 2025 logo competition is running! You don't need to be a designer (we'll help the winner with professional design support) so get submitting ASAP 2025.foss4g.org/logo-competi...