James Milner

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

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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

The Call for Talks & Workshops for #FOSS4GUK is now closed ✋

We have received many great proposals - thank you everyone.

We aim to provide you with an individual response as soon as possible, so everyone who is presenting can purchase an early bird ticket. 🐦🎟️

uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2025...

In today's #gleo news: wind data!

Or, more technically: a 2-band raster covering the globe and properly warped (EPSG:4326→EPSG:3857) containing UV speed data, visualised as a particle trail simulation.

Thanks to the #FOSS4GE2025 for providing the […]

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Email coming from npmjs.org, looking like an account maintenance notification, prompting the user to log in.

The link to login looks identical to the NPM login, but hosted on npnjs.com

A phishing attack is going on against maintainers on @npmjs.bsky.social, be aware!

- email is spoofed from npmjs.org (which doesn’t use DMARC but redirects to npmjs.com)
- login link points to npnjs(dot)com (clear giveaway)

Amazing last day in Mostar presenting about Terra Draw for FOSS4G EU. Thanks to everyone who came along or caught the live stream #foss4geu

screenshot of a Hacker News post complaining that Svelte is 'woke' because it emits accessibility warnings. It reads: Why does svelte have to be this woke? Please let me write this first, i will figure out accessibility on my pace, svelte be like no, do this or we are not going to let you do it at all - we will fill your editor with warnings in a way that you can't see anything.

even by HN standards this is an all-timer

#FOSS4G-E Streams are live: https://2025.europe.foss4g.org/livestream/

Kicking off #foss4ge with a welcome message from the mayor of Mostar

Official answer is #foss4ge

What is the definitive FOSS4G EU hashtag? #FOSS4GEU, or maybe #FOSS4GE? Just #FOSS4G perhaps, and then the post is contextual? Would I be cooler if I didn't capitalize it? Many questions

A day in Sarajevo yesterday before heading to Mostar today for #FOSS4G EU

YouTube video by The Linux Foundation Who Will Maintain the Future? Tackling the Graying of Open Source Software - Abigail Cabunoc Mayes

The graying of open source is real—but it’s not inevitable.

We can support the next generation of maintainers by shifting how we lead, teach, & invite

My #OSSummit talk is now live on YouTube:
📹 youtu.be/LjP0zpLLvPQ

Slides (with full speaker notes + references):
📎 docs.google.com/presentation...

GitHub - Scottish-Tech-Army/Soundscape-Android: This is the source for an Android version of the original iOS Soundscape app This is the source for an Android version of the original iOS Soundscape app - Scottish-Tech-Army/Soundscape-Android

I'd like to give a big thanks to @protomaps.com for their fantastic work. Our open source Android port of Soundscape, the navigation and exploration app for visually impaired uses a protomaps server and it's reduced the cost to the supporting charities by a huge amount. github.com/Scottish-Tec...

We’re hiring a senior-level Frontend Engineer!

This role is about building tools that help people use Earth data to tackle real-world problems — from climate and conservation to disaster response and open science.

Remote, open-source, and meaningful.
Details + apply: grnh.se/39qfi0m13us

🚨 Alert. Alert.

The closing date for presentation submissions for #FOSS4GUK is rapidly approaching.

Submit your talks here: uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2025...

It can be opinions, about projects, new ideas, breaking down technical concepts. Whatever topic you want, just involve open geospatial!

I'd love to follow more folks who are building open geo stuff in the web ecosystem - who am I missing? Appreciate maybe that is a small niche for BlueSky

We’ve had a fantastic round of conferences so far:
✨ State of the Map US , all materials available at: github.com/maplibre/wor...
✨ FOSS4G Netherlands

Next stop @foss4ge, meet our team and join the conversation on open source mapping
#maplibre #foss4g #FOSS4GE #mostar #osgeo

HOT’s tech team is heading to FOSS4G Europe 2025 this July in Mostar. We’re hosting 3 talks and 2 workshops on AI, open mapping, and humanitarian tech.

This is a paid event—register early. View the poster for full details:
2025.europe.foss4g.org/registration/

The Case for Software Craftsmanship in the Era of Vibes - Zed Blog From the Zed Blog: Working toward genuine, quality software in an era where code production is not the constraint anymore.

The Case for Software Craftsmanship in the Era of Vibes

As software engineers, we should measure our contribution not in lines of code generated, but in reliable, well-designed systems that are easy to change and a pleasure to use.

zed.dev/blog/softwar...

‘Vibe coding’ as a phrase is embarrassing to me. In an industry where the bar was already very low, it suggests we can care even less. It’s another step towards enshittification.

The only way to make great software is to truly reason about the code and systems. There are no shortcuts.