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I remember seeing a river cruiser called "Sir Osis of the River"

I edited a boating magazine (inland waterways, not sea-going) and we got article submissions like this all the time. I ended up putting in our 'Notes for Contributors' something li…

Bending Spoons are all in on AI development. Look at Komoot’s release cadence but also the skyrocketing number of bug reports in the Komoot subreddit.

Generally this means “national” and the sub-board on the OSM discussion forum.

Google employs _engineers_ to figure out the truth. If an import pipeline is causing problems, a higher-up can just say “stop doing that or we’ll stop your pay cheque”. OSM doesn’t…

2018 Mac mini, running Monterey, for webdev and Ruby scripting and it’s still fine. The biggest issue, as ever, is that the OS can only feasibly be upgraded to a certain point and …

> There only seem to be two things that this “app” does, that a webpage might not have, and they’re both anti-features: > It reports tracking data associated with your Google Accou…

CRT data is not open - it has an (entirely pointless) non commercial clause.

Your regular reminder that OpenStreetMap has something like two or three FTEs and anchors $1bn of value.

Please consider diverting your efforts to OpenStreetMap! The TIGER-derived basemap still needs fixup, but your work will benefit everyone, not just the Google shareholders who ulti…

Switching modes like that was common practice on the Amstrad CPC (which used the same 6845 video chip), but as time went on, people also learned how to change the base address of s…

> I’ve never actually had anyone complain about me sending them ODT or ODS files since even the said MS Office doesn’t have a big issue with those. On a Mac, I can read .doc(x), .x…

Luxury. I dialled into FidoNet with my 64k Amstrad CPC (contd. p94. Mein gott I’m old)

Mapillary is of course owned by Meta these days.

Ah, we haven't had an "ORMs bad" post for at least three days.

Disk was already the standard spelling in the UK by 1984 (in a computing context), just as program was used in preference to programme. But Amstrad mistyped it as disc on the plast…

Interesting! I've recently plumped for UIKit (with bits of SwiftUI dropped in) for a new mapping app because, as you say, SwiftUI map support is virtually non-existent. Have you th…

You literally get shadowbanned for posting the three letters “cis”.

Absolutely yes. It’s happening every week of the year with the better Substack-style startups in the UK (London Centric, Manchester Mill etc.).

Also known as Oxford Time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_time

Organ improvisation is a remarkable art, whether or not accompanying a silent film. In any of France's great cathedrals, the foremost musical experience is to hear the "titulaire" …

It’s second nature very quickly. Our train into Oxford leaves at ten past the hour. You find yourself thinking “oh, I’ll aim for the ten past eleven” an hour or two beforehand and …

Ruby doesn’t follow semver.

Yes.