edward

47,537 karma · joined February 22, 2007

Hello, I'm Edward.

I'm running the Geospatial devroom at FOSDEM.

I build web apps, web scrapers, databases, and search engines. I reverse engineer legacy systems and data formats.

Over the years, I've had the privilege to collaborate with internet luminaries like Aaron Swartz, Brewster Kahle, Ted Nelson, Jason Scott, and John Gilmore.

My contributions span a diverse array of projects, including Wikipedia, Open Library, Wikimedia Commons, Debian, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the Linux kernel, and BusyBox.

I'm on mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@edward

submissions comments

edward··on Tinygrad

I fixed some spelling mistakes: https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad/pull/314

edward··on Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive still working to democratize knowledge

The people at the Internet Archive do amazing work. They can always benefit from donations. See https://archive.org/donate

edward··on Mozilla and Open Web Docs Working Together on MDN

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30711915

edward··on BPG Image Format

Can we stop using the Lena image please.

edward··on Plasticity Is CAD for Artists

I fixed some spelling mistakes: https://github.com/nkallen/plasticity/pull/52

edward··on Zephyr-Copilot

http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/announcing_zephyr-copilot/

edward··on John Deere unveils fully autonomous 8R tractor

Self-driving tractor in 1978: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3xS3eIHzLk

edward··on Re-thinking electronic mail

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22847092

edward··on Travel on Airless Worlds (2014)

Part 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28904048

edward··on Dos-like: Engine for making things with a MS-DOS feel, but for modern platforms

I fixed some spelling mistakes: https://github.com/mattiasgustavsson/dos-like/pull/1

edward··on Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Win-10,11/macOS/Linux on Linux

I made a spelling correction: https://github.com/wimpysworld/quickemu/pull/66

edward··on Bitcoin's growing e-waste problem

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28562287

edward··on Leap seconds: Causing bugs even when they don’t happen

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27944776

edward··on Textual: a Python text user interface with Rich as the renderer

I fixed a spelling mistake: https://github.com/willmcgugan/textual/pull/8

edward··on ST3000DM001

I just added a photo to the Wikipedia article: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ST3000DM001_as_exter...

edward··on ST3000DM001

In 2012 I was working at the Internet Archive. I remember the 2011 Thailand floods restricted the supply of hard disks and pushed up prices.

The best deal we could find was buying these Seagate hard disks as external drives at retail from Costco. We picked up a truck load. Then had somebody with a screw driver remove them all from the enclosures and install them in new servers.

The error rate was high, the drives didn't last long in production.

edward··on A paradigm shift to combat indoor respiratory infection

Also here: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6543/689

edward··on Deskreen – Turn any device with a web browser to a second computer screen

I corrected some spelling mistakes.

https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen/pull/34

edward··on Twitter is removing Trump's tweets

Thanks, makes sense.

edward··on Twitter is removing Trump's tweets

They weren't replies.

edward··on Mutt 2.0 Release Notes