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Archives for October 2025

Moving to Positron

Published on 2025-10-09 12:30:00 by Barney Harris

Positron hero image from https://www.appsilon.com/post/introducing-positron

Some reflections on moving from RStudio to Positron.

Blender for DEMs

Published on 2025-10-08 13:42:43 by Barney Harris

An angled view of southern Brazil, looking north, showing the SRTM elevation at 500m resolution.

After many years of fawning over other folks' jaw-dropping blender renders of elevation and other geographic data I finally got round to playing with Blender.