@adamj.eu this guide was awesome thanks for writing it up! adamj.eu/tech/2025/05...

Enjoying Life After Cars today to much that I created a Wikipedia very basic page for it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Af... Anyone wanna help fill it in with more details? #urbanism #urbanism+

@ente.io is an amazing #selfhosting solution for photo management that's fast, private, and thoughtfully built. One area that could really level it up? Polish the UX for tagging faces. If you care about this too, please read & upvote the discussion github.com/ente-io/ente...

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...

Follow this guy. He knows what's up

🎉 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