Why is West Virginia's forest cover so much more complete than other states in Open Street Map? One dedicated mapper is behind it all! #OpenStreetMap www.reddit.com/r/gis/commen...

Anyone know why #SFWifi in #SanFrancisco #California dropped from 39 locations, including Dolores, (as of September) offered to just 21? I can't find any press coverage or statements by the city. web.archive.org/web/20250925... @sfgate.com @missionlocal.org @sfexaminer.bsky.social

Yesterday I created two #wikipedia articles! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_... (fun pop star) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena_... (sad crypto scam)

Ride @bart.gov @sfmta.bsky.social @rideact.bsky.social or other Bay Area transit agencies ? You're about to save a bunch of money with Clipper 2.0! Our trip saving calculator built w/ @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social & @tsch.uy will show you how much. See for yourself > clipper2.hikingbytransit.com

Huge news for #California #Urbanism calmatters.org/housing/2025...

Game-changer for California urbanism! Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, a landmark law that greenlights denser housing near major transit stops. This is a massive win for creating more connected and sustainable cities.

Creator of pandoc merged a fix to my bug report in less than 24 hours! I appreciate this philosophy professor maintaining a great piece of software and responding to bug reports in such a timely manner. He's awful generous with his time. github.com/jgm/pandoc/i... #foss #OpenSource #pandoc

@merfishcomics.bsky.social fyi, your website still links to your Twitter instead of bluesky

NYC has a very impressive Open Data portal. Every single day, a new dataset of all the 311 calls are made available for anyone to to dig in and analyze. This is just one of hundreds of datasets available from the city. 🧵 #urbanism #opendata #urbanplanning #nyc

Hi, I'm @mek.fyi and for 9 years I've run the @openlibrary.org at @archive.org, where 11M patrons world-wide rely on us to preserve society's library books, many which can't be accessed elsewhere. 🎲 Markets, politics, employment could change: I pledge to keep Aaron Swartz's Open Library OPEN 📖. Why?

If DOGE were serious, it would also eliminate the nickel, which costs 13.78 cents to make. It was first issued in 1866, when it had roughly the same purchasing power as a dollar today.

Fun to see #Wikipedia 's most viewed articles of 2024!

Can anyone in the #Vue #VueJS or #Vite worlds tell me if there's a better way to build multiple web components? Can't use the lib option because then we can't inline dynamic imports with multiple inputs and multiple outputs. #OpenSource

New blog post about cleaning up some #Wikipedia links on #OpenLibrary to replace them with #Wikidata

Happy that PocketBase has a new little guide out for importing and exporting data!

A recent paper about NYC says upzoning reshuffles gentrification: some neighborhoods feel relief, others feel the heat. As such, a regional approach should be taken. Source: Upzoning and gentrification: Heterogeneous impacts of neighbourhood-level upzoning in New York City (2024).

A little writing about my mornings in Bogotá ⛰️ https://buff.ly/3C5H4vS #Bogota #Colombia #Writing

Audiobook recommendations? Fiction or non-fiction but having a good narrator is a must!. Finished Crying in H Mart this week and need something new.

Made my first PR for Super Productivity! #FOSS #OpenSource #GitHub #Productivity github.com/johannesjo/s...

In December, I joined the celebration of 50 years of Ciclovía in Bogotá, Colombia. Three astonishing aspects caught my attention: 1. At the night Ciclovía, police were present with a music car encouraging people to register their bikes in case they're stolen. Quite the friendly community outreach.

@kickstarter.com might know I'm a Cory Doctorow fan

Just added ~100 #EckerdCollege faculty profiles to Wikidata using QuickStatements! Fun first project with this tool. Now their research will be more discoverable 🔍 #Wikidata #OpenScience blog.rayberger.org/eckerd-quick...

LETS TRY THIS: Quote-post this with a “picture worth a 1000 words” of a scene from another city that exemplifies what you’d like YOUR city to achieve on the way to becoming a much better #CityForPeople. The only word you get to include is the name of the city the scene is from.

I went on a pilgrimage to the birthplace of the open streets movement. Here's what I learned: slate.com/business/202...

TIL it's nearly impossible to export highlights/notes from Apple Books 🙃

I finally made a little tool to make using my reddit proxy easier. tldr: my proxy keeps timing out (idk why) but I made a page that’ll ping it until it doesn’t time out then redirect me :) #opensource #reddit #softwaredevelopment github.com/redlib-org/r...

Merged 2 nice improvements for Open Library today! - Improving searchbar keyboard navigation - Lazy loading images on the book merge page (saves 100s of requests) #opensource #software #openlibrary

Just for fun I did the "AI Python for Beginners" course on the DeepLearningAI platform and I gotta say it's a pretty solid starter. It's crazy how much easier learning to code will be for people from now on :) #python #software #learning

New blog post :) #gemini #calendar #android #google blog.rayberger.org/google-gemin...

It seems there is a way to get actual money from GitHub stars now. #opensource #github

🚨 Hot take: "Increasing road safety" maintains car dominance. "Reducing road danger" challenges the whole system. Which side are you on? blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp... #urbanism #urbanplanning #UrbanActivism #SafeStreets

Emergent City is a creative documentary showing how messy democracy can be though the case Industry City's failed rezoning. If you're an urbanist hoping to change your city you should watch. #urbanism #movies #nyc #brooklyn #urbandevelopment #cities blog.rayberger.org/emergent-cit...

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🎉 Just blogged about my work integrating Wikidata with @archive.org's OpenLibrary! Excited to share how we're enhancing author pages and enhancing search. Check it out! 📚 blog.rayberger.org/wikidata-and... #OpenLibrary #Wikidata #OpenSource

New Feature Alert: Access archived webpages directly through Google Search, now featuring a link to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. 🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/09/11/n...

New blog post: Attending the First Offline Club at Café de Ceuvel in Amsterdam blog.rayberger.org/the-first-of... #Books #digitaldetox #amsterdam #theofflineclub #mindfulness

My latest #blog post is out! Fixing Jellyfin iOS Audiobook Streaming: Contributing to FOSS without coding blog.rayberger.org/fixing-jelly... #FOSS #softwaredevelopment #jellyfin #audiobooks #selfhosting

Good #frog https://www.science.org/content/article/brazilian-frog-might-be-first-pollinating-amphibian-known-science

Crows will bring u gifts if u start trading with them