scottbw 🐧 🇬🇧🇩🇪 @scottbw@social.targaryen.house

slightly baffled as to why node and way identifiers are in separate, and potentially clashing, value spaces on #openstreetmap. Is there no way/point/relation-agnostic identifier?

One of the challenges of being a consultant/contractor - not working on a client's interesting data stuff on days you're not being paid to do it...

its been so long I'd almost forgotten the #altc conference was a thing... hope folks are having a good one

Running my ETL pipelines on my laptop has had the odd side effect that my local database is now in better shape than the official API it draws from.

Minor puzzlement and vexation: there are plenty of heavy metal (only) music festivals, and plenty of music festivals with no heavy rock bands at all, but there are almost no music festivals with *some* heavy rock bands in the mix of artists. I wonder why?

Nearly beer o'clock!

Another day of Python... and the challenges of doing integration testing for ETL processes.

Oh look, #Skype decided to update itself to a new, more horrible version without asking me first.

What a match! #BELJPN

Random mashup of the day - "Wham vs. Slayer - "Careless Whisper in the Abyss""

back to Python coding today ... its been a while!

Saw lots of ravens today. I love ravens. #notagothhonest

Bing seems to respond to my searches for PSQL commands with T-SQL documentation. I'm not going to switch database platform just because you have a wonky search engine, Microsoft!

Another week or so gets blogged: https://scottbw.wordpress.com/2018/05/28/occasional-update-21st-28th-may/

Thought I'd catch up on some marking for the uni course that I teach part time. Moodle is down. So is email. So is the university website...