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Thank you for building the pico services. I use pgs for hosting my simple static website, and prose to host my blog, and it’s just such a wonderful experience. Also it’s been a whi…

After the most recent price hike ($16 to almost $30/mo for the "basic" organizer plan) I decided to quit Meetup as the host of two groups after more than a decade. It's not just th…

This is what keeps me coming back to DBeaver as well. I don't know of any other clients that support display of PostGIS geometry types.

There is a link at the top for pre-OSX wallpapers. There was one in MacOS 7 or 8 that was called "platte pinda's" in Dutch meaning "flat(tened) peanuts)". That name mystified me at…

You're right! It was probably a 603.

I was surprised that there was not more mention of the clones of the mid 1990s. The Pioneer clone mentioned in the article sure is an interesting curiosity, but clone brands like M…

There's one for The Netherlands as well -> https://en.treinposities.nl/ . Relies on an open API so there's bound to be others. This one is good because it has some live webcam link…

LinkedIn says Fastmail has 116 U.S. based employees. I may be completely off base here, but if you're that small an org and employees feel the need to form a union, wouldn't that i…

Ha! I was hoping to see some web.py / Aaron Swartz code. This is cool too, though.

You may be interested in joining the Spatial Community slack if you haven't already. There's a self-invite link at https://thespatialcommunity.org . There's a ton of channels there…

Check out your local library website. They likely offer free access to popular newspapers, magazines, services like consumer reports, streaming movies.

prose.sh hits a sweet spot for me. Not just in the minimal-but-rich-enough presentation of blog posts[0], but also (off-topic for this thread I guess) the simple interface: just sc…

Thanks for sharing this. I've read this account quite a few times now and I've always wondered if his attitude towards the SAR teams was completely justified. I don't have any pers…

I read this after seeing a previous link to it on HN. One of the most haunting tales of folks getting lost in remote places[1]. I live in the West and love to explore remote places…

They used to have an AM transmitter that reached most? of Europe, but it was shut down in 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orfordness_transmitting_statio...

For hiking and other back country activities, I rely on Gaia GPS, but there's others that offer offline capabilities (sometimes as part of a subscription) like AllTrails, OnX and C…

Part of this resurgence can undoubtedly be explained by the ready availability of high quality open geospatial data sources like OpenStreetMap. The United States has always had a l…

I wonder how much data traditional cable companies collect these days. Their services sure haven't gotten any cheaper. I was very happy to ditch Comcast a few years ago but the str…

The 55" LG I purchased at Costco for less than $400 a couple of years ago works great and I've never connected it to the internet. [edit] looked it up, it's this one: https://www.l…

For those interested in deploying their own OSM stack including all the bells and whistles like Overpass, TagInfo etcetera, have a look at osmseed: https://github.com/developmentse…

> Great, so they'll suck open street map data, but won't contribute back. They already are. > Same as apple, they'll build their own map in a private walled garden and suck bits of…

I think it actually makes sense, but perhaps more so for “traditional” tourism. I lived in Amsterdam for 20 or so years. I found winter to be positively miserable: cold, rainy and …

If you need a travel guide for this type of tourism, you may find the “tourists vs locals” maps interesting and useful. Made by analyzing Flickr photos grouping them in ones likely…