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Bryan Hermsen

Building a District Tile Server

I mentioned in my previous post about the Cloud-Native Geospatial Outreach Event that the topics presented really inspired me to investigate that space some more. I've worked on a few different mapping applications but they've leaned very heavily on either step-by-step instructions for gathering the necessary

A Geogspatial Diversion

I've added another (largely superfluous) online conference to my growing collection. This one had the very descriptive and very serious title of Cloud-Native Geospatial Outreach Event. The funny thing is that I don't even remember for sure how I found out about this one. It may

Little Conferences

I've mentioned before that one of the very small perks of this pandemic twilight world that we live in is the number of events that are now online and either cheap or free to attend. Several weekends ago I attended PyCascades, a regional Python conference normally held in

Vim - Modal Editing

The fact that Vim is a "modal" editor is the first and most obvious thing that people notice about it (what do you mean this editor doesn't 'edit' by default?). The fact that you need to hit keys before you can edit, and use

Vim - Part 1

Recently I've been going through some courses that are more configuration and command line-oriented, and that's gotten me back into using Vim, a terminal editor that I used regularly in the past but have neglected recently. I picked up Vim several years ago when I worked

So... about Colemak

I thought I'd follow up real quick on a previous post about buying a new keyboard and switching to the Colemak layout. I still really love the Moonlander keyboard. I'm a big fan of the columnar layout and split keyboard design. I like the tilting and

Sharp Tools

Sometimes it's really fun to see a project come together–to see all of the different stakeholders, skill-sets and tools combine to create a final product that has an impact. One of the things I most like about working in IT is that, very often, you get a

A Couple of Recent Finds

I thought I'd post about a couple of random finds that I've enjoyed recently. bat A couple of weeks ago I stumbled on the fact that Github had a conference that came and went and that I wasn't aware of. Browsing through the talks

Practice

Recently I came across a fantastic blog by Dan Luu. It's one of those things where, once I found it I immediately spent several hours that night reading nearly every post. But the post I want to talk about has the wonderful title of 95%-ile isn'

Tea Time

We've already established that I'm old. Pursuant to my embracing of that fact I've started getting into tea lately. This started out of necessity, as my stomach can no longer take 8 hours of constant coffee consumption, but has grown into something I really