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I’m still building OneBusAway Cloud, which you can think of as being Heroku for public transit. https://onebusawaycloud.com/ It’s a project of the non-profit Open Transit Software Foundation that we’re using to fund our other initiatives, like bringing real-time transit information to billions of people around the world. Since last month, I've added a layer of polish to the product, added support for deploying a SMS…
The project aims to scrape location data and other general information about shops (main use case), postal addresses, restaurants, schools, weather stations, marine buoys, traffic cameras, street trees, whatever someone may decide is worthwhile to add to OpenStreetMap, or use as location data in other projects.
There's a decent community of contributors keeping the scrapers maintained and further expanding the number of points of interest which are extracted.
The opportunity I'd like to work more on (time permitting) is the data scraped by this project I feel is heavily underutilised in other open source/community projects. For example, there's a great opportunity to generate a location map once a week of current locations of international restaurant chains, and upload to Wikimedia Commons where every language Wikipedia would gain a high quality infographic of current locations of a chain's restaurants, etc. As an additional example, time-series data from ATP could be used to update a graph hosted on Wikimedia Commons each week where the graph plots the rise and fall of retail or restaurant chains.
I've also recently setup Hermes to be a bit of a project manager for my side projects and it's worked quite well. Gave it a little CLI to see my todos, projects, and "areas" (ongoing long term things). Then it bugs me once in a while when a project is going stale. One of the nicest things is being able to add stuff to the past so if I did work on something but it wasn't associated with a todo I just let it know and then it'll backdate that.
I’m continuing to work on my daily word game Tiled Words! https://tiledwords.com I checked my analytics recently and over 100 people have 100+ day streaks which kind of blows my mind! I released custom player puzzles which has been a lot of fun! I’ve gotten dozens of submissions that I’m working through. People are submitting really clever and interesting puzzles. It’s fun to get to solve puzzles I didn’t make myself…
It started because I found myself opening a lot of different sites to get a quick picture of a domain. The main project right now is a domain security assessment tool that combines DNS, WHOIS, MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, DNSSEC, TLS/SSL, security headers, redirects, and other public metadata into a single report with findings and recommendations.
I've also been building out the smaller supporting tools around it as they come up in day-to-day IT work.
Still a work in progress, but I've been having fun building it.
I continue to work on my city builder game Microlandia, launched here in HN ~6 months ago. I originally predicted a few dozen urbanism nerds would play it, but now almost 10,000 copies sold. I'm still a solo developer but now I collaborate with 2D, 3D and music artists. Which is good because the original art that I drew myself for the launch was horrible. I'm currently working on modeling energy, climate and new poli…