Geospatial Systems, Data, and Strange Machinery¶

Joshua N. Grant — geospatial systems architect. Most of my time goes to spatial data infrastructure; the rest shows up here as Rust tools, generative graphics, studio hardware, and small games.

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Current work¶

dots¶

Dotfiles and a ./dots bootstrap for macOS and Linux — shared shell/ helpers with bash and zsh profiles.

Shell · active

Docs Repo

NUMBRANE¶

Generative audiovisual work from procedural rules and simulation. No LLM weights in the runtime; NUMBRANE Studio is the canvas-first UI.

Python · active

Repo

PARQONAUT mascot illustration

PARQONAUT¶

Rust workspace built around prqnt: scan and repair Parquet on disk or S3-compatible storage, plus an HTTP API for async scan jobs.

Rust · active

Docs Repo

Projects · Documentation sites

Writing¶

Notes from production geospatial work, plus tutorials and longer essays. Best practices for patterns and trade-offs; tutorials for hands-on builds; deep dives for longer essays.

Architectural compass

Recent additions

Strange machinery¶

MIDI rigs, Pi sample servers, PostGIS WebGL art, Kotlin particle sketches.

Contact¶

jngrant@live.com · @sempervent · LinkedIn · Not Just a Datum

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