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Celebrating 30 years as a Linux user

· 11 min read
Alex G Rice
Geodata rambler and developer, aka guidorice

In this post, I'll share my 30 year journey with Linux and explore how it shaped my future as a developer. Along the way, we'll take a nostalgic stroll down computer hardware memory lane. We'll touch on challenges with legacy MS Windows systems today, in the public sector. In a followup post we'll look at various useful Linux/macOS commands for GIS and geodata wrangling...

Irrigation in the West, visualized with National Hydrography Dataset

· 3 min read
Alex G Rice
Geodata rambler and developer, aka guidorice

In the United States there is a clear pattern of human settlement where to the East, there is more than 30 inches of rainfall and so crops can be grown without irrigation, and to the West, irrigation is required. This post is an exploration of population density, precipitation rates, and the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD)...