Bill Dollins

Runner. Coder. Database hacker. Accidental geographer. Perpetual novice. Chaotic neutral.

2026-02-24

I’m happy with how they turned out.

2026-02-23

@AtanasE Perhaps. Interestingly, I’ve encountered two company blogs that run Wordpress and seem to have intentionally disabled RSS.

2026-02-23

General trend I’m seeing via GeoFeeds is that company blogs increasingly do not have RSS feeds, whereas independent/personal blogs do. It’s not universally true but seems to be trending that way.

2026-02-20

The most important geospatial app you will see today: whereisitfiveoclock.beer

2026-02-20

@AtanasE @rjhale1971

And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did my vertices get out of order?”

2026-02-15

Rainy Sunday kitchen time with my wife.

2026-02-13

The circadian rhythm that wakes me up at 0400 is a drag sometimes.

2026-02-11

How OOP Helped Me Understand AI Agents

I first encountered the term "agent" more than 20 years ago, when I was working on an agent-based modeling system for simulating infrastructure inter-dependencies. Imagine an agent representing a power plant that has gone offline and an agent representing a telecommunications end office switching itself to battery backup and tracking how many simulation cycles the batteries will last. We called them "intelligent agents" but they…

blog.geomusings.com/2026/02/11

2026-01-28

Ten years ago, I wrote about the geospatial landscape as I saw it then. Ten years later, I decided to take another look.

blog.geomusings.com/2026/01/28

Bill Dollins boosted:
2026-01-23
2026-01-20

GeoFeeds: Now with MCP

It's been about a year since we rolled out GeoFeeds, a spatial new aggregator along the lines of the old Planet Geospatial. During that time, it's been humming along, and we've added about 90 blog feeds to it. It provides a single, rolling, aggregated feed of posts from those blogs over the previous year. I've been impressed by the surge is RSS feeds over that time. If you have a blog or feed related to geospatial, personal or corporate, you can…

blog.geomusings.com/2026/01/20

2026-01-14

Spatial Analysis with Claude Code

I've been doing more (a lot more) with Claude Code lately. With its subagents and skills features, it's become more customizable and powerful. I can really dial it into doing things the way I want them done, which accelerates my development and quickly gets me to where I am focused on important behaviors, rather than rote scaffolding. I recently wanted to trying expanding beyond code generation to analytic tasks, so I set about…

blog.geomusings.com/2026/01/14

2026-01-01

The star has come down. 2025 is in the books.

2025-12-29

Claude Code doesn't seem to be a better programmer than me. It seems to make the same kind of mistakes I would. It simply finds them faster after the fact.

2025-12-28

Hacked up a quick desktop geoparquet viewer with Claude Code. Currently browsing data from the HIFLD archive on Source Collective.

2025-12-27

I used Claude Code to build an app to help me with social media. I had it build a version with Electron and another with MAUI. Makes me wonder how many SaaS subscriptions I can sunset by building helper apps for myself this way.

2025-12-26
2025-12-26

The past year has been difficult for many reasons, but today, I watched my granddaughters experience Christmas with joy and safety. So many choices and challenges were vindicated today.

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