There's an #OpenStreetMap mapping day this weekend in Vic Park (Perth, Western Australia). https://osmcal.org/event/1348/
Interesting podcast with Matthew Westerby about the wiki for the History of Early American Landscape Design: https://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-113-matthew-westerby
I love the stuff about finding quiet places, in the latest #cardicast: https://newcardigan.org/cardicast-episode-87-bec-muir/
A web site designed for one person that aggregates functionality (don’t thing “app” but plug-in style “features”) is the idea behind the Small Web:
I've added a thing to my static site generator: it reads all the frontmatter metadata into a database when building sites, and it's now possible to edit that database and then write the metadata back into the Markdown files. https://basildon.netlify.app/writing.html
@FirstProgenitor I'll double down on that.
Stop making YOUTUBE VIDEOS instead of wikis.
What’s the IndieWeb. Do I need it? Why would I want it?
Here’s what you probably need: a place on the web to call your own, that is _not_ controlled by megacorps that can do just about whatever.
Won’t be long till you start thinking about Webmention, though, which enables cross-site conversations. And `h-entry`, which enables more meaningful webmentions.
That’s about all most folks would ever need, I think.
Micropub is nice to have, because when done right, it works regardless of your CMS.
If you are into Wikimedia and maps consider joining the Wikimaps User Group:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimaps_User_Group/Members
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RT @AlbinPCLarsson
Help us gather map-related ideas and tasks for the #Wikimedia Hackathon!
#WMHack #OpenStreetMap #Wikidata
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimaps_@_Wikimedia_hackathon_2022
https://twitter.com/AlbinPCLarsson/status/1524337423030919169
low-key upset that the road realignment I've made in openstreetmap hasn't made it to the tiles used on https://democracysausage.org/ . That slightly shifted road is Super Very Important to...
ok it's important to nobody. But it hurts my eyes dammit.
Or less coffee. Or more whisky? At any rate, I seem to think I need more database tables!
I'm at that stage of a new project where I could make ridiculous architectural blunders and give myself no end of work in the future. But this is also a hackathon, so I guess I just keep hacking and hope for the best? I didn't sleep well, and now I'm making a concept called a "langver" which is a given language-version pair of a project's documentation. Perhaps I need more coffee…
While the new community members section of the IndieWeb newsletter is just a tiny subset of people who are joining the IndieWeb movement by actively adding themselves to the wiki, it's been encouraging to see expanding growth both here and in the broader web (even Tumblr) and Fediverse space since Musk announced the acquisition of Twitter.
Here's to more positive growth to a healthier and happier online social experience.
Plain text is interop on steroids. Many respondents reported using multiple different apps on diff platforms concurrently. Easy with plain text. Next to impossible with your rich text solution
Even those who had settled on a single app had been habitual switchers in the past
Your JSON-based file format? Used by a single app with maybe a couple of open source widgets floating around supporting it? So far away from being in the same ballpark that it might as well be a joke.
I'm out mapping Freo addresses in #openstreetmap. Trying to make it easier to geolocate the FSPS1978 pics. I still want to find an old UBD though (probably a pre-1955 one that is PD, but a 1978 one would be great for reference).
Anyway, have stopped at The Local to replenish my surveying feet.
A Wikimedian from Fremantle, Western Australia. I work for the #Wikimedia Foundation, and in my spare time am interested in local history and #genealogy, and write software that does stuff in those areas. I also edit #OpenStreetMap. Sometimes I get away from the computer into my #woodworking workshop. #fedi22