New #MapMen episode!!! 🗺️ How many languages are there in the world? And can you put them all on one map? (No.) youtu.be/hX21ctsGhNc Share and enjoy!
Why a Language Map of the World is Impossible
YouTube video by Map Men
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Marc Tobias
@mtmthemovie.bsky.social
Map search (geocoding) and data crunching. Cofounder @opencagedata. Love cycling in remote areas of the world. 🌎🌍🌏 (alt @mtmail@mastodon.social)
I literally had no idea there was a market in counterfeit vinyl. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
Deep cuts: how one Londoner’s fake vinyl empire sheds light on ‘industrial scale’ fraud
Thousands of knock-off records worth a fortune are being seized in the UK by anti-counterfeit police stings
theguardian.com
mountain with no name (used to be named after this guy)
Taking care of an elderly parent is exhausting. Then comes the afterlife when you have to reverse engineer their lives to cancel eight million subscriptions you didn't know they had.
If a baguette could move, how would it move? Give your reasoning pls. (this is an old GIF from the archive, posting it here finally)
A loose-loose-loose combination: Trusting AI's advice, trusting astrology and trusting the slop text also written by AI.
Must be 10 years since I last got a `winmail.dat` file. It's just a container file Outlook/Exchange uses and there are tools to extract it but I thought it was a build-in/solved problem these days.
For the keyword warriors out there. /s "Typing feel is not just about touch anymore. It is also about the way your keyboard looks." www.daskeyboard.com/deltaforce-65
This week in #geoweirdness we crack open a topic of continual confusion. Welcome to our "Guide to the Guineas"
Hey agent, my computer is feeling sluggish. What's up with that? Oh... oh dear... I may have vibe coded too close to the sun
“Incidents per Pull Request were up 242%. Monthly incidents were up 58%. Bugs were up 54%” Slow. The. F**k. Down. codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/05/10/s... via Instapaper
Slow. The. F**k. Down.
“Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.” US Navy SEALS training mantra Another day, another data set telling us what we already knew. In the latest AI Engineering Report from Faros, the so…
codemanship.wordpress.com
I realise the details are unlikely to be forthcoming, but I'd like to to know more about why OpenAI and Anthropic are unable to set up secure test environments without internet connectivity. It doesn't appear a particularly difficult task.
"What’s a boring business that quietly makes its owner rich?" Not one software business in the list, I live in an internet bubble. www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...
A customer, well free-trial user, sent us their LLM generated analysis of a geocoding result. The LLM was utterly wrong and showed high confidence. I doubt the LLM used multiple geocoders and if it did it's good news for us because they blow, or suck, or whatever.
"Simple and transparent [pricing]" "straightforward pricing with no hidden fees". I'd say it's pretty hidden.
Our Hetzner bill will go up a lot. Even the old spare 128GB RAM server we use for the Google Summer of Code student would be 300 Euro/month next year (Google pays the salary, not the server).
So many unknown icons. Can you guess the color switcher, 'book a demo' and 'we're hiring' features?
Got access to an investor presentation, relevant to what I do. Small team, the interactive page all vibe-coded. It contains a world map "our existing customers". I check the source code and it doesn't just contain the coordinates but also all customer names and what they pay, a Stripe dump basically
Customer wants full refund because we only find half the addresses correctly. Turns out there project is genealogy project and the addresses were over 150 years old. Some streets no longer exist, some are parking lots, some cemeteries and the "Lunatic Asylum" surely renamed.
That's an excellent idea and should be deployed everywhere </bot-answer>
I hope the person will be a woman and buys 51% of the shares because she's really invested.
i read the alex karp palantir book. it sucks. macwright.com/2026/05/24/t...
The Technological Republic
JavaScript, math, maps, etc
macwright.com
Don't click the "switch off bluetooth" button with your bluetooth-connected mouse. Follow me for more time-saving tips.
A person I know (and who is? was? a good professional al) left an AI-generated comment under my LinkedIn post. Full-on AI slop. I asked: why do this? He replied. It’s because of “engagement.” People are burning their profession al reputation, paying for AI tools, for nothing
Newest security vulnerability report: By doing 5 extra steps on our website a user can submit the password change form twice in the same millisecond. That changes the password!
