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Next weekend is going to be the State of the Map 2026 conference in Paris and i am going to present a talk and a poster there. Do maps have a future in OpenStreetMap? The talk is going to be about if maps have a future in OpenStreetMap....
Hand and Knife observed her thriving People and wished to tamper their deeds. She meant them no harm but ‘twas her nature to enjoy healing and death. Without pestilence, there’s nothing to heal and death came only with age. The Children...
I feel an immense sadness. I’m grieving the loss of a pillar of my self-identity: my career as a software developer. Although I’m not sure if this grief is rational, or whether software development is really doomed for good. But it’s...
For the last twenty years I haven't paid much attention to my State Senate race: Pat Jehlen hasn't had a close race since she won the seat in 2005. I think she's done a lot of good work: while allocating credit is hard, more people want...
At the northeastern edge of La Línea de la Concepción, on a scrubby Mediterranean beach called El Burgo–Torrenueva, there is an old battlement-tower, La Torre Nueva, and not much else. It was part of the system of coastal watchtowers...
Noch bis zum 13. September 2026 zeigt die LUDWIGGALERIE Schloss Oberhausen die große Fotoausstellung Anja Niedringhaus – An vorderster Front. Mehr als 250 Fotografien geben einen Einblick in das Werk der deutschen Pulitzer-Preisträgerin...
Gia Festa is a digital producer and writer based in Sydney, Australia. She is a 2025 DNR Bootcamp alumni. Down the rabbit hole:Mark Leckey’s 2009 thesis, “Mark Leckey in a Long Tail World”, is a futurist theory on the revolutionary...
Wikipedia Mini-Server, part 30 Recipe Bread Again Other Scrawls Entropy Arbitrage Library Updates Next August’s most important anniversary, as everyone definitely already knows and has out their party hats, celebrates the carving of the...
A few thoughts on friction and a buncha fresh tracks. I am finally getting around to going through a box of 45s my mom gave me. Ostensibly, this was “payment” for helping her downsize her house a few years ago. Really, I think it was...
Namco’s Pole Position, released to arcades in 1982, was a massive hit. The kind that shifts the entire direction of the industry and what it spends its time creating. It was effectively the first racing sim out there, and literally...
I was 15 years old when a school friend lent me her cassette of Disintegration. I took it home, slotted it into my boombox and my mind was blown. Your teens can be tough, but a band or an album can help you navigate those tricky years....
Belgian pie-throwing activist Noël Godin dies aged 80 https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2285449/belgian-pie-throwing-activist-noel-godin-dies-aged-80 What’s this? Who? What? Georges Le Gloupier: the Custard Pie Thrower or, as he was...
A recent addition to Naval Station Norfolk’s Gate 2 are a pair of historic, and rare, Cold War era twin mounts: two twin 3″/70 Mark 26 guns in Mark 37 mounts. The guns came from the old USS Norfolk (DL-1), the one-off ASW destroyer...
Some 55 years ago, Southeast Asia. Loading a 6th Battalion, 32nd Field Artillery Regiment M107 175mm self-propelled howitzers onto USNS LST-546. Photos by David D. Lozano, B Battery 6/32ed Artillery. Cam Ranh Bay for a move to the DMZ...
On a recent trip to the Benelli factory in Urbino, Italy, we got a peek at their one-of-a-kind facility that blends Old World craftsmanship with modern manufacturing standards. We were there to get the scoop on the new gas-operated M2-G1...