Charlie Loyd
@vruba.bsky.social
A pixel/geography/other person in Oakland. With @rahawahaile.bsky.social. Marginally more active at @vruba@everything.happens.horse on mastodon. He/him.
Every time I notice how this dashboard software labels its axes I emit a pulse of psychic distress strong enough to rustle papers, nudge the empty seltzer can on my desk, make the more nervous of the crows on the power line out the window take off, etc.
September 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Every time I notice how this dashboard software labels its axes I emit a pulse of psychic distress strong enough to rustle papers, nudge the empty seltzer can on my desk, make the more nervous of the crows on the power line out the window take off, etc.
I’m sick of all the damn helium littering. These days every back alley and vacant lot is strewn with the refuse of irresponsible balloon animal artists and feckless blimpeurs.
August 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I’m sick of all the damn helium littering. These days every back alley and vacant lot is strewn with the refuse of irresponsible balloon animal artists and feckless blimpeurs.
I’d missed this one in the satellite data for the LA fires. There’s a helicopter dropping water in the upper left, and one refilling bottom center. Big flames. We’re looking due east over Elderberry Forebay, above Castaic Lake, on 2025-01-23 at 11:19:09 (local). Maxar Open Data Program, CC BY-NC.
February 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I’d missed this one in the satellite data for the LA fires. There’s a helicopter dropping water in the upper left, and one refilling bottom center. Big flames. We’re looking due east over Elderberry Forebay, above Castaic Lake, on 2025-01-23 at 11:19:09 (local). Maxar Open Data Program, CC BY-NC.
Phos-Chek at the edge of the burn scar north of Temescal Peak, in Topanga State Park. The image is about 2.6 km (1.6 mi) wide. Source imagery: Maxar Open Data Program.
January 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Phos-Chek at the edge of the burn scar north of Temescal Peak, in Topanga State Park. The image is about 2.6 km (1.6 mi) wide. Source imagery: Maxar Open Data Program.
Fine, but why do you ask?
January 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Fine, but why do you ask?
“To govern is to annoy.”
January 10, 2025 at 5:11 AM
“To govern is to annoy.”
Madagascar is emphatically not California: the problems and the social dynamics are very different. And yet many of them are rooted in the same attitudes. Just from the page I landed on when I checked the PDF’s address:
January 10, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Madagascar is emphatically not California: the problems and the social dynamics are very different. And yet many of them are rooted in the same attitudes. Just from the page I landed on when I checked the PDF’s address:
Cattle grazing on Mkhabathini Table Mountain (🇿🇦). (Source imagery from the Maxar Open Data Program, CC BY-NC.)
January 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Cattle grazing on Mkhabathini Table Mountain (🇿🇦). (Source imagery from the Maxar Open Data Program, CC BY-NC.)
How different can two reasonable pansharpening algorithms be? Pretty different in pathological cases like planes in flight. Left is from Maxar, right is from Potato (the thing I’ve been tinkering with). Same underlying data, from the Maxar Open Data Program, CC BY-NC.
January 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
How different can two reasonable pansharpening algorithms be? Pretty different in pathological cases like planes in flight. Left is from Maxar, right is from Potato (the thing I’ve been tinkering with). Same underlying data, from the Maxar Open Data Program, CC BY-NC.
Sketching out the carbon math for the pansharpening model I’ve been building and I have to say – I continue to think of O(n²) QKV algorithms as a ploy by Big GPU to sell more GPUs.
January 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Sketching out the carbon math for the pansharpening model I’ve been building and I have to say – I continue to think of O(n²) QKV algorithms as a ploy by Big GPU to sell more GPUs.
This is the notebook where, since Jimmy Carter entered hospice care in mid-February 2023, I have been crafting a post about his death that will make absolutely everyone mad.
December 30, 2024 at 2:19 AM
This is the notebook where, since Jimmy Carter entered hospice care in mid-February 2023, I have been crafting a post about his death that will make absolutely everyone mad.
When I see this kind of news I think about how with polio in particular there was one big day, but with HIV/AIDS we’re getting thousands of little days. They add up, though.
December 28, 2024 at 1:30 AM
When I see this kind of news I think about how with polio in particular there was one big day, but with HIV/AIDS we’re getting thousands of little days. They add up, though.
Boats at low tide under the Suramadu Bridge, Surabaya (🇮🇩). (Source imagery from the Maxar Open Data Program, CC BY-NC.)
December 21, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Boats at low tide under the Suramadu Bridge, Surabaya (🇮🇩). (Source imagery from the Maxar Open Data Program, CC BY-NC.)
What I say: “I’m going to work on pansharpening today!”
What I do: Flip between two very similar images in QGIS for twenty minutes, panning and zooming, then sigh heavily, glare at the wall, and delete two lines of python.
What I do: Flip between two very similar images in QGIS for twenty minutes, panning and zooming, then sigh heavily, glare at the wall, and delete two lines of python.
December 21, 2024 at 5:49 PM
What I say: “I’m going to work on pansharpening today!”
What I do: Flip between two very similar images in QGIS for twenty minutes, panning and zooming, then sigh heavily, glare at the wall, and delete two lines of python.
What I do: Flip between two very similar images in QGIS for twenty minutes, panning and zooming, then sigh heavily, glare at the wall, and delete two lines of python.
You ever have a friend who did M⟂⅃EᖉHO ΛE⟂EIVEИ⟂Ꙅ in high school and made it their whole personality?
December 11, 2024 at 6:57 PM
You ever have a friend who did M⟂⅃EᖉHO ΛE⟂EIVEИ⟂Ꙅ in high school and made it their whole personality?
Tree in bloom on the ridge between Paraty-Mirim and Saco de Mamanguá (🇧🇷). (Source imagery from the Maxar Open Data Program, CC BY-NC.)
November 30, 2024 at 10:27 PM
Tree in bloom on the ridge between Paraty-Mirim and Saco de Mamanguá (🇧🇷). (Source imagery from the Maxar Open Data Program, CC BY-NC.)
People walking on a road, 3 km (2 mi) ESE of Ennouasser, western Jebilet Massif (🇲🇦). (Source imagery from the Maxar Open Data Program, CC BY-NC.)
November 30, 2024 at 6:25 AM
People walking on a road, 3 km (2 mi) ESE of Ennouasser, western Jebilet Massif (🇲🇦). (Source imagery from the Maxar Open Data Program, CC BY-NC.)
Houses and gardens on the coast 1.5 km (1 mi) south of the estuary of the Moho river (🇧🇿). (Source imagery from the Maxar Open Data Program, CC BY-NC.)
November 27, 2024 at 2:38 AM
Houses and gardens on the coast 1.5 km (1 mi) south of the estuary of the Moho river (🇧🇿). (Source imagery from the Maxar Open Data Program, CC BY-NC.)
Also, it didn’t make it very well through video compression, but check out the distinct footprints of the Baltic states:
November 25, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Also, it didn’t make it very well through video compression, but check out the distinct footprints of the Baltic states:
Here’s a global cartogram of three equally weighted variables: population in red (1 dot: ~10k people), GDP in blue (dot = ~$100M/yr), and Foursquare POI in green (dot: ~100 known establishments).
November 25, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Here’s a global cartogram of three equally weighted variables: population in red (1 dot: ~10k people), GDP in blue (dot = ~$100M/yr), and Foursquare POI in green (dot: ~100 known establishments).
