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Over the years I've had to setup a variety of servers to host websites. I don't do it very often so I always need to look up what I'm doing. This post includes the steps and resources I typically use to setup a server and some additions to help with hiccups I typically encounter.

So long 2024. 2024 was a great year for me. I feel, more than any other year, that I grew a lot personally and professionally. The year was highlighted by doing hard things with my wife and daughter and, for the most part, enjoying them. There was a lot that happened. I exercised a lot, drank less, came to terms with work, and spent a lot of time thinking about building a house. I also slept better for the most part, which is such a big win. I coded more at work and less at home which is something I'm going to try and do more of in the future. All in all it was a great year.

I’ve been a bit busy, so I’m just getting to my first map challenge of the month lines. For it, I’m using my favorite dataset, the Bureau of Land Management’s, Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring dataset. Here is total foliar cover for every point completed in the Western Lower 48 states. You can find the data set here.

A few years ago the Bureau of Land Management office I worked for was part of a project to map vegetation in Sage-grouse habitat. To do that we got 10 cm resolution aerial imagery across the species range. The following is a summary of the project, what I learned, what I would do differently, and why the project ended without ever really contributing to any on the ground management.

In my last post I wrote about how I started blogging because of Chris Coyier. In this post I'm going to copy something he used to do, which was a post a "Chronicle". A Chronicle was essentially just a list of the things he was using in his day-to-day work at that moment or anything else he wanted to share. I'm going to do the same here and, hopefully, in the future.

I started blogging because of one person: Chris Coyier. Well I guess two people, Chris Coyier mostly, but also some guy named Tim who made Timothy Training.

I have been less enthusiastic about predicting if the Dolores will have a raftable release this year due to an average snowpack. In January there was a potential for a release when the model was predicting 20 days. But other than that the model has been fairly pessimistic. In the last couple of days the model has had some really high predictions, above 40 days. I think either the model thinks that we are close to having enough snow to have a release or there was some sort of weird reading at the snotel sites. Either way, I would say that there is a chance the Dolores runs this year, but I'd guess it is unlikely.