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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...

Good morning Leeds ☕😎@uk.osgeo.org #foss4guk

Forgot to mention, I'll be talking about this at FOSS4G UK tomorrow morning in Leeds 🗺️

I've been working on an open source library to do routing in JavaScript called Terra Route. This morning I've added functionality for understanding complex graphs, you can get info like the number of nodes, edges, lengths, degrees, connected components etc! github.com/JamesLMilner...

Unwritten rule: Deep technical programming topics 🤝 Blog with barely any CSS

This is the final regsitration call for #FOSS4GUK in Leeds on 1st and 2nd October. 🚨🚨 We have about 20 tickets left. Day tickets are also available. 🎟️🎟️🎟️ uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2025... We close registration 21st Sept and we really would like you to meet all of our amazing sponsors in Leeds.

AI powered 'spec driven development' would require organisations to carefully and deeply articulate what they want in clear and precise language - something developers have been begging for already for 50+ years. Maybe there is a harder and deeper problem at play here...

the open web

I'm working on a report on the causes of burnout in open source software. If you're a part of the OSS community, I would love to hear your thoughts, either here on Bluesky, or privately via email (see post). Thanks 😊 mirandaheath.website/report-on-bu...

Made some performance improvements to Terra Route, a JavaScript shortest path library. Here's a video at 4x CPU slowdown, comparing the next fastest library (green route) against my latest changes (purple route). Here's the link: github.com/jameslmilner...

Zero dependency dependency

Nominate your favourite UK-based #OpenSource heroes at https://openuk.uk/awards/ This isn't pay-to-win. We don't charge for nominations and the award ceremony is also free (and very swanky!). Please - show your support for your favourite people, projects […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Thank god AI has finally solved the problem of there not being enough podcasts

you can just post here

Sam's work is always so beautiful and considered - a great follow if you don't already

New job title just dropped on LinkedIn “Vibe code cleanup specialist”

𝗛𝗢𝗧 𝘅 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗮𝗽𝘀 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻-𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻 This is a great opportunity to meet the Missing Maps community, HOT staff & connect with fellow mappers. Tuesday, 23 September 2025 Get your 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 here: bit.ly/4lCw3CY

When open source projects reject a PR, we're not doing it out of animus. Many times people create PRs with valuable changes, and while correct, would break so many people that we can't land it without a massive effort. We can't always commit to that. A lot of factors go into these decisions.

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Node.js can now execute TypeScript nodejs.org/en/blog/rele...

Shout out to @jsonsingh.com who I know has been working tirelessly on this!

The quietening of talk around AI as an existential threat is actually quite damning of the current state of LLMs - it's essentially saying 'we realised this approach will likely never be intelligent enough to be a meaningful threat'

🚨 Applications are now open! We are excited to announce that the @geospatialwomen.bsky.social Mentorship Programme is now accepting applications for our 25/26 cohort, open until 7th September! 🔗 Interested? Apply here: lnkd.in/ek7veWdG #gischat #remotesensing #geospatial #eo #gis #mentorship

i don't resent llms but this is real

Another wonderful community partners for #FOSS4GUK 2025 in Leeds is the AGI, Association for Geographic Information (AGI). 🗺️ www.agi.org.uk They lead, connect, and develop a community of individual and corporate members who use and benefit from geographic data and technologies.

Scrapped the custom local development environment in favour of @storybook.js.org for Terra Draw. Lots of useful built in functionality and helpers provide cleaner isolated examples of different functionality.

happy html day ❇️

AI generated images is the worst aesthetic

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Happy birthday GRASS! I checked and the open source project was started in 1984 which is pretty good going in my book

hacker: i am spying on you through your webcam linux user: omg you got it working?

MapLibre 2025 Board election process has begun! We’re now accepting nominations for Voting Members and Governing Board candidates. . 📅 Nominations close: August 15, 2025 👉 More details on GitHub: github.com/maplibre/map... #maplibre #openstreetmap #opensource #foss4g

One highlight from the Bosnia trip last week was taking the cable car in Sarajevo up to the top of the surrounding mountain and walking down the abandoned bobsleigh track from the 1984 winter Olympics

𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗮 𝗪𝗿𝗮𝗽 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿! 🇧🇦 At #FOSS4G Europe, HOT hosted a drone mapping workshop, led field mapping exercises & gave talks. Huge thanks to Sam Woodcock & Kshitij Raj Sharma for showcasing our work! Curious about the tools we shared? Check out Drone TM: bit.ly/41bgGKa Field-TM: bit.ly/4fgXAs3

I rave about @protomaps.com's PMTiles as a transformative technology. Here's an example: 📊 All 8 million+ US Census blocks; 🗺️ Visualized in 3D with MapLibre (via #rstats); 💻 Locally on my laptop - and the fan is running nice and cool. Writing up a blog post, I'll teach you how!

The request to draw freehand lines in Terra Draw keeps popping up so I've been experimenting with it a little this evening and it's actually a lot of fun! Little demo on a @maplibre.org map #foss4g #gischat