hire erica, one of the smartest people in the biz.

Erica Fischer@enf.bsky.social · 3d ago

Well, it appears that I have joined the ranks of the laid-off. Anyone know of anything interesting going on in geo?

just goin about my day citing a photo from wikipedia for a blog post and it's from @enf.bsky.social, it isn't even sf-related, it's nyc! some people have made such an impact on the internet i just land on their name over and over.

Did you know leaflet has a canvas? We recently got a bit carried a way and added a LOT to it. You can now: - DRAW! - add canvas pages to your publication - set view areas for mobile - make canvas images in posts - try it out at leaflet.pub/new-canvas check out this video for the full run down:

tempted to make my website's design 'weirder' because websites are getting too normal. might do the csszengarden thing and do multiple layouts with just the power of Modern CSS.

I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...

I think students should read full books.

oh you felt connected to your work? felt the pride of hard-won skills? you fool! you absolute narcissist!

⚡️🌙@dystopiabreaker.xyz · 10mo ago

seeing a machine do something that you previously thought was unique to your cognition, and opening up that capability to anyone, is to many people a deep narcissistic injury. this explains much about the social environment

You can now create and manage teams in the new Observable, use Opus 5.5, connect to MySQL… but, most exciting, and by far the most overdue: you can now access SQL cells’ metadata fields by opening the cell menu with ⌃M. Keep those hands on that keyboard! observablehq.com/@observableh...

nowadays it's hard to know whether i should follow the ai accelerationism of ashton kutcher or joseph gordon-levitt's safety fears

i'm very happy that placemark is now on maplibre / however, it's sad not to get the huge perf boosts that @agafonkin.com delivers for mapbox-gl-js, few in the industry are on this level github.com/mapbox/geojs...

v5: Radically improve memory footprint by mourner · Pull Request #191 · mapbox/geojson-vt

TL;DR: 45–75% less retained memory and up to 79% lower peak across the bench corpus, with init build time within ~10% of v4 (and 50–70% faster on point datasets). Tile output is the same; the publi...

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I wrote about what I've been up to with my new programming language! Zena targets WebAssembly GC, with a TypeScript-like syntax, sound type system, and lots of cool features like pattern matching, async cancellation, borrow checking, WASI integration, and more! justinfagnani.com/2026/09/09/z...

Zena: A new Wasm-first programming language

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i know it's not their market but "an oxide rack but with big honkin gpus" seems like an inevitability

cycling nyc is so delightful, covered new ground on randall's island and rode the high bridge this weekend

observable's community is just stacked with talent

Observable@observablehq.com · 4w ago

Simulation of binary black holes. Original concept by Jeremy Schnittman and Brian P. Powell svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13831 Relativistic GLSL ray-tracing notebook by @nxrix.bsky.social observablehq.com/@nxrix/binar... Starfield & orbit controls by @laotzunami.bsky.social observablehq.com/d/cca8d2013f...

little detail in drawing app side project: when i show options to customize directional arrows, the arrow ui shows the arrows based on their screen orientation, not the order in which you drew then arrows

i applaud togo on promoting the equal earth projection, but as a pseudo-cartographer i have to note that the earth is in fact round, not flat, and quite a lot larger than this

❤️ www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/o...

For more than a year, we’ve been quietly building an all-new Observable. Today, that new Observable is live on observablehq.com. Read Mike @ocks.org’s announcement: observablehq.com/@observableh...

don't go anywhere near my lakehouse bro, it's swarming with agents

it's good, you should read it

Pete Millspaugh@petemillspaugh.com · last mo.

I wrote about trying (and failing) to let ai write for me title is a riff on @henrikkarlsson.bsky.social's henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/search-query

my favorite bogus security report goes like "your application does X. and mind you, it does it correctly. but if it _didn't_ do it correctly, that'd be a security problem!"

Recently: macwright.com/2026/09/01/r...

on a fun project bugs are fun too

Flavors used to be infused but nowadays flavors are blasted. This is happening to society as well of course

it continues to fascinate me that of all the custom big corporation fonts, the one that has the most flavor is from ibm

Placemark is now _fully_ open source, thanks to @bskyum.bsky.social macwright.com/2026/08/25/p...

big news as soon as i fix and merge this revert revert revert revert branch

the protocol labs narrative is starting to solidify into it having been a very spendy labs project that ultimately benefited atproto and iroh instead of its own projects ipshipyard.com/blog/2026-th...

The end of IPFS at Shipyard

We have some difficult news to share with the IPFS and wider peer-to-peer community. Our IPFS funding was cancelled

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