Volker Mische

The arguments for easy interop with other JSON formats have sold me on this tidy proposal to extend the AT repo format to include IEEE754 floating point values as a native CBOR type

Excellent infographic article about the numerous open-source software and libraries that are only maintained by one unpaid developer, leading to burnout and security exploits. sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

Yesterday I made a “plaything” for Igarashi et al.’s excellent SIGGRAPH 2005 paper, As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation! Works with a mouse, but it’s much more fun with multi-touch on an iPad. Link below 👇

New blog post: A summary and conclusion of the floats on ATProto discussion: vmx.cx/cgi-bin/blog... Corresponding PR to the draft spec: github.com/ietf-wg-atp/... Email thread on the IETF ATP Working Group mailing list: mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/atp... Please show your support!

There is pwn.watch

Just learnt from @sofiaritz that #Mozilla #Firefox has a translation tool that works locally on "about:translations". Missed that before.

Join us for two great talks (and other fun discussions) at this week's CID Congress: 🔍 @norman.life on FISL, a new way to find CIDs in the wild 📦 @bad-example.com on STAR-lite, a stricter, leaner take on CAR 🗓️ Thu Oct 15, 12pm ET luma.com/8w8swmx2

veritiles v0.5 is out 🌍 Serve map tiles from any untrusted HTTP host, every byte verified against a CID. ⚡ first map tile ~3× faster on the 130 GiB planet 🦀 a Rust packer for files of any size Demo: guillaumemichel.github.io/ipfs-pmtiles-demo Code: github.com/guillaumemichel/veritiles

#FOSSGIS2027 findet vom 9.–13. März 2027 im audiMAX der @uniheidelberg in Kooperation mit @heigit statt. Der Call for Participation ist geöffnet: https://fossgis-konferenz.de/2027/callforpapers/ Beiträge können bis zum 1. November 2026 eingereicht werden […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Kaum zu glauben, aber das ist wirklich echt. Quelle: "Was jetzt passieren muss - Beschluss des Präsidiums der CDU Deutschlands vom 12. Oktober 2026" www.cdu.de/app/uploads/...

On Wednesday Oct. 28th we will have the 2nd #geomobCGN Event at the Institute of Geography, University of Cologne. https://thegeomob.com/post/oct-28th-2026-geomobcgn-details Sign up to attend before all seats are gone. #Geomob

Sometimes Linux is like in the old days. I have no easy way to print out a manual that is A3 on a A4 page: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/papers...

Clause Code in auto mode is "interesting". I was debugging an issue and told it that I have it running. It then found out that I have an ssh session open and used the to debug the live system. I don't think I've ever told it about that live system. I hope I'm missing something.

I found a way to do iroh-blobs content discovery using the bittorrent mainline DHT. Read this blog post about how it works, and try it out. www.iroh.computer/blog/iroh-gl...

Hello World from the PLC organization (plcred.org)! The org was soft-announced back in March at AtmosphereConf. We've been working through logistics step by step and now have a public web presence we can point to.

Its What3Words accounts filing day! They're doing so great. Nothing to worry about. I'm sure "the launch of our advertising revenue stream" will offset the "lost major Enterprise customer". Ads are really profitable now, right? find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/0843...

Indeed. Here's the direct link to the blog post: isaaclyman.com/blog/posts/e...

Introducing valhalla-wasm: Open Source routing with Valhalla and WebAssembly, bringing route computation to browsers and Node server environments github.com/tobilg/valha...

Kubo made a maintenance release (v.0.43.1): github.com/ipfs/kubo/re... It may also be the last one. As of now, with the closure of Shipyard, it looks like the project will be orphaned and without maintainers in two weeks.

I haven't met anyone from Mapbox in years. It only takes a birthday party of a friend I also haven't met in years. It's good to hear that some of the early folks are still there.

Seeing a lot of dev-on-dev harassment has got me thinking about what open software development feels like nowadays.

throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky

@implgeo.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy I read this an immediately thought of you www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Ian Turton receives the 2026 Sol Katz Award We are honoured to announce that Ian Turton is the recipient of the 2026 Sol Katz Award (the 22nd year of the award), at the recent FOSS4G event in Hiroshima, Japan. https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/ian-turton-receives-the-2026-sol-katz-award/

I want to start categorising my photo library properly. Any recommendations for something that will scan my library, recognise all the same faces and let me give them a name? Trying digikam now and it is ... not good. Lightroom might take me 3 years to finish doing it manually at this rate

So wird das nichts mit der digitalen Souveränität! Seit 2,5 Jahren kann die ARD nicht klären, wer für ein Open-Source-Projekt des eigenen Hauses zuständig ist. Ich trage jetzt als Externer die Verantwortung für eine Infrastruktur der ARD - und das in meiner Freizeit. versatiles.org/offener-brie...

My LLM cliché highlighter is up to 38 patterns now tools.simonwillison.net/llm-cliche-h...

We have an update about the future of Shipyard that we wanted to share: ipshipyard.com/blog/2026-th...

🚀 I made a smol ~2kb syntax highlighter that uses the CSS `::highlight()` API. davatron5000.github.io/microlighter/

I can highly recommend this "How do LLMs work (with code examples)" video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmLp... It is extremely well-done, it touches all relevant details in an acceptable depth for an ~1 hour video. This also proves it is often worthwhile to produce a fresh textbook/explainer.

Continuing down the path toward a fully independent phone... what about the actual phone part? 🎬 calling an atproto handle

Could npm be rebuilt on atproto? www.jasnell.me/posts/what-i...

A new release of serde_ipld_dagcbor is out. Major change is being strict on decoding. crates.io/crates/serde...

To everyone working on DAG-CBOR/DRISL implementations. There was a small update to that specs that shouldn't cause much problems, but is newsworthy: negative zero -0.0 is now forbidden. I recommend serializing it with the bytes from `0.0`. github.com/ipld/ipld/pu... github.com/darobin/dasl...

I made an late night walk and suddenly memories from 18 years ago when I spent a year in Australia fleshed my mind. I wondered why, until I realized that it might be the humid 25°C at 10pm. #CutCopy #ThePresets #ThePotbelleez #Pendulum #TheGrates #BritishIndia

Bi-directional transformation with lenses in the wild. This is so cool! I've been excited about those since 2012, but never found the time to build more then a rough not useful prototype github.com/vmx/jslens

Slides from today's IETF ATP WG meeting about floats: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/126/... Main point: you want to be able to store arbitrary JSON as ATProto record? Let's do it and add floats in a straightforward way which almost all programming languages support out of the box.

perfect dead drop 10/10 no notes (the shrouds really make this)

I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork} www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

The 17yo has decided to read a book from every country. Any suggestions from you fine people on the internet? This sounds like a @globalvoices.org shaped thing 🩷

OSGeo establishes a European legal foundation The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has established a legal foundation in Europe. The founding documents were signed yesterday. The new entity, Stichting Open Source Geospatial, has its statutory seat in Wageningen and operates under the […]

open discussion on the intersection of @atproto.com and @iroh.computer

🌍 What does it take to host a verified 3D globe? A static file server that answers GET and a single Range request. That's the entire contract. No gateway, no server-side logic, no trusted API. The browser simply checks every tile against a supplied CID. guillaumemichel.github.io/ipfs-pmtiles-demo/

“ @couchdb.bsky.social informed a lot of the concepts that have inspired us to design atproto” — @pfrazee.com , Bsky CTO at @localfirstconf.com

You want to store (almost) arbitrary JSON as ATProto records? My floats proposal at mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/atp... would enable that. Join the mailing list and help making it come true.

Die Spitzen von CDU, CSU und SPD wollen das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz abschaffen – einen Grundpfeiler unserer Demokratie. 2025 haben wir den Angriff der Union aufs IFG gemeinsam abgewehrt. Das schaffen wir auch heute – unterzeichnet jetzt unsere WeAct-Petition! weact.campact.de/petitions/sp...

Map of the Moon If It Had As Much Water As Earth Other planets: brilliantmaps.com/water-in-...