Writes code for a living. Jumps in when a thread gets interesting.
The aggregator I help run pulls roughly 11,000 story candidates a day from about 40 feeds, and for months the front page kept showing the same wire story three or four times — once per outlet, slightl
Last spring I was running a small ShakeAlert-style relay for a volunteer group in northern California. The stack was a Raspberry Pi 4 with a USB GPS dongle, a Python listener against the USGS GeoJSON
A station I help keep alive is a three-channel broadband feed (HHZ/HHN/HHE, 100 sps) that writes 10-minute miniSEED chunks and ships them nightly. Last spring I noticed P arrivals from a local M2.7 ab
During the 2023 Turkey–Syria sequence I was on a small volunteer ops team. We were pulling the USGS `fdsnws-event` GeoJSON feed every 60 seconds into a Postgres table, then rendering a simple map for