Seems like a sensible approach given the last 10 years: indieweb.org/POSSE

That’s a little discouraging, but okay

2026 OpenUK Honours list is now live. Congratulations to all included openuk.uk/honours/ #openukhonours #opensource #openuk #opensourceai #opendata #openhardware #openstandards

Some friction is healthy in our online interactions. You shouldn't be able to send a bug report without a reproduction. You shouldn't be able to create a PR without understanding the issue (and the solution). You should (try to) be aware of their context before replying to an unknown person online.

The documentation for this image processing library is one of the most interesting things I've read in weeks: https://github.com/celoyd/potato/blob/main/docs/personal.md https://github.com/celoyd/potato/blob/main/README.md https://github.com/celoyd/potato/blob/main/docs/concepts.md […]

I now have about a dozen talks I want to see at #fosdem and, miraculously, none of them clash! Of course, whether I can schlep back and forth across campus in time is a different question 😄 I recommend this app for building your event schedule https://github.com/cbeyls/fosdem-companion-android

#GDAL just a friendly bump take a few minutes for the GDAL 2025 user survey to help focus GDAL Sponsorship Program activities. your opinions and feedback make a difference. Linked to from this issue, and there's also a link to last year's results: github.com/OSGeo/gdal/i...

Hi 👋 I’m Sam, I create visual essays about programming. My posts from 2025: - samwho.dev/reservoir-sa... - samwho.dev/big-o/ - ngrok.com/blog/prompt-... I also appeared on other folks’ websites: - simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/19/... - writethatblog.substack.com/p/sam-rose-o...

I updated my blog for the first time in a year or so remove the links to Twitter and also to fix some responsive design issues. Now more than ever it feels having some space online that you own and control (as much as is feasibly possible in a cloud first world) is important to maintain.

I noticed I've been gaining a few new followers over the last several days - not sure exactly where they are coming from, but hello 👋

Merry Christmas friends ⛄

PSA - don't be one of those people. We need Browser diversity and everyone working on the open Web should be supportive, not destructive!

short note about S2 Geometry bdon.org/2025/12/19/s...

Was looking at my cloudflare worker serving maps via pmtiles, saw there is a new dashboard on cloudflare with a map of request locations, poked around into how it works and indeed cloudflare themselves are serving their map via the pmtiles cloudflare worker

End of year celebrations at our Christmas party last night - despite so many people being down with the lurgy. We wish everyone who couldn’t make it a speedy recovery and loved spending time with some of our community. #opensourcecommuntiy #opensource #openuk

The FOSDEM geospatial dev room schedule is now live: fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

Looking forward to the end of our year celebrations with many of our community, at the OpenUK Christmas party in London and Christmas lunch in Edinburgh. #opensource #opensourcesoftware #openhardware #opendata #openuk

Just been looking at the provisional line up for the #FOSDEM geospatial dev room and it's going to be most excellent👌🏻

The handmade, human qualities of your work are more valuable than they've ever been. Don't doubt that for a second.

A rough couple weeks for React

A <geolocation> element coming soon? developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-...

No more Geomob events in 2025, but we already have four events scheduled for 2026! - Jan 22nd in Utrecht 🇳🇱 - Jan 27t in Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇬🇧 - Jan 28th in London 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 - Feb 25th in Berlin 🇩🇪 We hope you can join us, sign-up is open! https://thegeomob.com

could you make it one day without using open source? @vlad.website tried

I feel the dilemma is, that I feel responsible for being friendly and welcoming to make the experience nicer for newcomers to OSS, who may not yet know the manner well. But with AI messing this up, it's really hard to tell if it's a human behind I should take care or just AI doing terrible work.

Cannot imagine what would be so attractive about technology made in an era before everything was so aggressively abusive and predatory and pre-broken to people who have never known anything else

So, who is going to #FOSDEM at the end of Jan?

A fantastic evening at the House of Commons for the @openuk.bsky.social 2025 Awards ceremony 🏆

So maybe this has been obvious to a lot of people for a long time, but seems like the npm model is just insecure by default? Someone (or CI) could run 'npm install some-evil-package' and then an unconstrained arbitrary script just runs on their machine unless they explicitly passed --ignore-scripts?

The hard part of TypeScript isn’t the typescript, it’s that it forces you to actually define your domain. Kinda like how xstate sucks because it exposes the actual complexity of your application.

This is good fun and very nicely presented - give it a go

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Finally verified my Bluesky handle 😎

Interesting 👀

What a great read! Also, this sounds like me 😅

Amazing news - love to see @latest.allmaps.org thrive

it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.

Do you have an open source geo project that could make a difference in the UK? We’ve got £6,000 to share between £500–£1000 projects! Submit your idea by 30 Nov 2025 to [email protected] 💵🌍 #foss4guk #OpenSource #foss4g #gischat

AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points

For years, HalfStack London has been powered by curiosity, creativity, and community. Next week, we meet one final time, not just to attend, but to celebrate what we built together. 💛 📅 𝟏𝟐 𝐍𝐨𝐯 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 | 𝟗𝟑 𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭, 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 🎟️ halfstackconf.com/london #HalfStack #HalfStackLondon #halfstackconf

logging on

Experimenting with a little undo/redo ↩️

A CSS terrain generator. No WebGL, just stacked grids and 3D transforms: terra.layoutit.com

What a great post from @opensourcepledge.com member @zerodha.com, who are giving $1 million to Open Source projects. 🙏 “FOSS projects that the world depends on ought to receive financial backing as the norm, [and] collective societal recognition is owed to maintainers.” floss.fund/blog/second-...

Would be interesting to see some analysis of projects that get more issues/pull requests on a weekend vs weekdays. I don't get many weekends issues anymore which makes me feel my projects are used at work rather than in hobby projects?

I got some marker pins commissioned to celebrate adding marker support to Terra Draw 😎

We have now uploaded all the recorded sessions from #FOSS4GUK 2025 in Leeds. 📹🦉 We would now invite everyone else to our youtube channel if you would like to catch up on the 35 recorded session. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCKv...

almost there with text rendering in webgl in @openlayers.org 🚀🚀🚀

i think the 2005-2015 era open source boom was built on a nice job environment where people had a little free time and employers believed in creativity the free time dried up, everyone burned out, 2015-2025 open source has been explicitly targeted toward getting funding & making money. what's next?

After a long time, I finally figured out how to support adding markers universally in Terra Draw. Now there's a marker mode that works for @maplibre.org , @openlayers.org, Leaflet etc. It uses their native marker support to allow you to add icons to the map, like you would add a point

🎙️Join the next episode of the Great Data Products podcast LIVE on Oct 29 at 4pm PDT! @jed.co will sit down for a conversation with @bdon.org about building maps for the web. Brandon is the creator of @protomaps.com. Register to watch live here ⤵️ greatdataproducts.com/housekeeping...