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There's a couple of options listed here https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geocoding "Photon" and "Pelias" which were built on ElasticSearch

The "Learning on the job" section brought back some memories of my experiences solo-developing a rails app. I made some of the same mistakes, although I think I mostly made the mis…

Simulating physics of muscles/skeleton structures has been done many times over, and I feel like the focus on eyes and vision is what makes this one interesting. Anyway it's quite …

I've ended up keeping a bit of list of events listing websites here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapping_Weekend_Howto#In... So I've added radius.to to that. This is for ru…

There's a typo in the "Mission" section "Only by limiting the reliance on AI and continue to create original content can propel us forward as a species". An AI wouldn't have made t…

yes. I see what you're saying. heads out into the street to start a fist fight

Strong nostalgia whenever I see the BBC Elite opening screen! These days we can re-live it easily in the browser: https://bbc.godbolt.org/?autoboot&disc=sth%3AAcornsoft%2FEli... Al…

Similar. That Christmas when my dad & I started working through the BBC BASIC manual, I thought that this was the exciting experience of owning a computer which my friends were all…

If you can pinpoint the data in OpenStreetMap we could try to figure out if this is something wrong in the map data (Anyone can fix it!), or maybe it's a tag they should be filteri…

There's another site called https://openstationmap.org/ which shows some details within train stations in a fun 3D way, letting you flip through the "levels" data (Again, all data …

Memset is based in the UK. Used them a few years back, but I'm afraid we moved to AWS after a few too many reliability issues.

I didn't understand that bit to be honest. Maybe because I'm from the UK. Why was the media coverage in the years after 9/11 disastrous?

But "early Rails hype/philosophy" is the only thing you've said specifically about Rails. I think I know what you mean though. There are strong philosophies in the Rails (and more …

Top search result for "alternative music notation" is https://www.dodekamusic.com which looks like it has the same ideas, plus a rectangular rhythm design which makes it all _look_…

The twinkling children's TV style background music in that video is not making it any less creepy.

"reasonable perceived effort" or maybe "reasonable perceived smarts". I think wordle fools us into thinking we're smart. Even though on some level we know it cannot take genius, it…

Yeah "not in an annoying way" is certainly debatable. Personally I'm not annoyed by it, but I can see why people would be. Whoever made this spoiler bot seemed pretty annoyed by it…

The worst offenders seem to be news sites run by traditional newspapers. Friends share links to these quite a lot, and very often I follow the link to an article that sounds quite …

Yes. I didn't do much with wordpress for years, but always thought of it as a very open-source-ish community. Recently I find myself taking on a pre-existing wordpress site with a …

Yeah. There's bizarre situations where 'view source' shouldn't really be necessary/beneficial and yet somehow it's a handy life skill. I remember doing it while booking a flight on…

Building a browser as a desktop application would be quite hard, but I reckon I do it as a web application.

The bit about petroleum solvents, makes me wonder about sinkholes. "causes it to dissolve and break down into a non-load-bearing sludge", so if some joker tips a bottle of that in …

Yeah that's been my impression at a lot of hackathons, but I think it has be accepted at least to some extent, as just "good preparation" rather than cheating. In fact I'd recommen…

There's usually quite a strong "time crunch" element. In my more snooty moods I say hackathons only teach bad habits and how to throw together software in a dreadfully hacky rushed…

yes I'd like to know more details. This video shows a bit more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hN3dBpPu8Q Bi-drectional? Looks like those adjusting flaps are to make it bi-direct…