Caught in a sudden monsoon downpour for 20 mins with no shelter. Turns out standing on the leeward side of a coconut palm trunk can keep you virtually dry. You can see how this tree funneled the rain into a single source. Need to experiment if all trees are this effective.

Print is print, boss. My short story 'Spatial Reasoning' appears with nine fantastic ones (all shortlisted for the Deodar Prize 2024) in the collection titled 'The Pilgrim and Other Stories'. If you're in BLR, get a copy Champaca. If not, order here: champaca.in/products/the-p…

Minecraft folks might enjoy this 🧐

Nagarjuna Sagar Project crest gates lifted in July for first time in 18years. Water is being discharged downstream through 14 gates, each opened by 5 feet, totaling 78,060 cusecs.

Coincidentally I happened to use the Majestic bus stand this afternoon when this beauty was put up a couple of hours earlier. Great job by team Pravar 👏 you guys are the best. I hope these are put up in other key locations as well where commuters enter, like the FOB & Metro

We are hiring for two key positions: Full Stack (Geospatial) Web Developer and Science Communicator. Looking for a hardcore engineer who loves code and data. Our current tech covers Python, Java/Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Cesium, docker etc. Must have geospatial experience. The

Beach mats and accessible play equipment at Blue Flag Marina Beach from day 1! What a heady feeling to be included from the start and not as an afterthought 🎉 Other govt departments, please follow the lead of Greater Chennai Corporation! #ToBeAPartAndNotApart #NothingWithoutUs #Access #Beach

Chinese instagram (RedNote) silently dropping the best VLM for general purpose OCR in just 1.7B size wasn't on my wish list 🎅

Coming Soon: Empowered Indian – MPLADS Dashboard Track ₹89,000+ crore worth of MP funds. See who’s spending, who’s stalling, and what’s getting built. 73,000+ works still pending. Just 19.3% of funds utilized. I’m putting final touches on it launching very soon! Stay tuned.

Not satisfied with SDKs that render nautical charts as rasters, engineer Chris Dalke created his own performant way to show charts on the web: Vector Charts A bespoke PostGIS pipeline + Mapbox Vector Tiles, includes a routing and search API, looks great

We are trying to hire for a critical position for our lab. Earlier searches have not been successful. Would appreciate referrals! This is a *long-term* multi-year position, and for the right person, we will increase salary bands later as well. Ideally, we would like to attract

Here's a side project ive been working on: An absurdly cheap and easy manufacture jet engine for long range UAVs. ($500, 10N thrust). I tried to do this back in highschool but now with the power of ANSYS, CF Turbo and JLCPCB its going to work this time.

This is what dignified, universal transport for all looks like. Notice the large number of senior citizens using transit. All vendors have their goods neatly packed, without anything falling out.

Trials maps of my local town using the new #openstreetmap vector tiles shortbread-tiles.org/schema/1.0/ in #qgis. It's possible to generate this for any other location. Feel free to request. © OpenStreetMap Contributors. Contours using NASADEM

Finally! It's only fitting that the inauguration of low floor electric buses in Chennai had a disabled representative from the #Go4LowFloor #Bus4All movement that brought MODERN buses to Tamil Nadu after 2 decades of legal battle, advocacy and campaigning. go4lowfloor.wordpress.com/2022/12/20/sat…

Make it easy to ride bikes around town and people will ride bikes around town. Bike traffic in Paris:

'Phosphorescent Sea' (1933) by M. C. Escher

this Independence Day, we tried to make India .000001% cleaner shoutout to my Trash Crew anirudh manjunath and Naresh Meetei and thanks to Pravar for the location inspo, we saw your Domlur skate park video and decided to make the footpaths leading there a bit more walkable