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schoenobateson Build your own decision model

On a side note - this would make a brilliant TV show. Gary Oldman for a day making life changing decisions then we come back one year later to see how it all went. A bit like Grand Designs.

schoenobateson Wikimedia Enterprise – APIs for LLMs, AI Training, and More

Bottom of the page ...

https://api.enterprise.wikimedia.com/spec/spec.yaml

schoenobateson Java 22 Released

I've been quite keen on the new FFI too - apologies if this is old news, but have you tried the [0] jextract stuff for some of the boilerplate gubbins?

[0]: https://github.com/openjdk/jextract

schoenobateson Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)

Intellij (and all the other variations) has something very similar to this called [0]HttpClient. Being able to commit and basically just read the file is very useful. You can also do validation and scripting with it too.

[0]https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c...

schoenobateson Updating Gov.uk’s crown

looks like it was updated 2 days ago ...

  < HTTP/2 200 
  < content-type: image/x-icon
  < content-length: 4286
  < server: nginx
  < last-modified: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 15:37:12 GMT
  < accept-ranges: bytes
  < date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 10:42:04 GMT
  < cache-control: public, max-age=86400
  < etag: "65d375a8-10be"
  < vary: Accept-Encoding
  < x-cache: Hit from cloudfront
  < via: 1.1 3e01624605be2cc1fb592922856a08c6.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
  < x-amz-cf-pop: LHR61-P1
  < alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400
  < x-amz-cf-id: gsLjkVjEeAxylgygl4y67TgAfIf0bnZhlzTG5S-P0fXwhXh3LBl4Iw==
  < age: 31562

schoenobateson What's something difficult programmers make look easy?

I now use archive.ph to read these types of article now. Medium as a platform is awful and the constant nag to signup just puts me off so much.

https://archive.ph/fh12P

schoenobateson The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit

I've been a happy Kagi user for a few months now. As someone else has already mentioned, shopping etc is often better elsewhere, but for 95% of my search I use Kagi exclusively.

schoenobateson Hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software engineer job

> your toughest career problems are less frequently technical but political, interpersonal, and organizational.

I feel this statement is spot on.

schoenobateson Discworld on Page and Screen, Part 1: Serious Comedy

The Long Earth series is fantastic. I'm not a huge fan of Baxter's work but these books are among my fave scifi reads.

schoenobateson Discworld on Page and Screen, Part 1: Serious Comedy

I love Guards but would also throw in Thief of Time which is a fabulous read

schoenobateson Roy Fielding's Misappropriated REST Dissertation (2020)

but mutations have been in there since the beginning IIRC

schoenobateson Ask HN: Best practices for organizing geospatial data from different sources?

might be worth giving qgis a try. It can work with loads of formats and can be used to run an analysis ( as well as make maps)

https://qgis.org

schoenobateson A new way to make maps with OpenStreetMap

I'd also recommend having a look at https://openmaptiles.org/. They have workflows and editors for working with MVT and Maplibre. You can combine a base map from maplibre with other sources using Openlayers [0]

[0]: https://openlayers.org/en/latest/examples/mapbox-layer.html

schoenobateson MapLibre GL is a free and open-source fork of mapbox-gl-JS

I've tried very recently with Openlayers and their OL-Mapbox style package[0] - it wasn't too bad TBH, but not great.

Maplibre is still very nascent and needs a lot of work until it is ready to be used in anger. I do wonder if it would be better to put effort into Openlayers rather than trying to maintain this library - as others have pointed out, OL provides so much more.

[0]: https://github.com/openlayers/ol-mapbox-style

schoenobateson Poll: Switching from WhatsApp

Have been investigating matrix/element.io over the last few months so will probably move to that

schoenobateson Computer Spacegames (1982) [pdf]

During the 80's there was a great weekly magazine series published the UK called Input Magazine. It's browsable via archive.org -

https://archive.org/details/inputmagazine

schoenobateson Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible

“... abusing over a dozen technologies...” is this a proof-of-concept or a real thing ? It just seems too horrendous to be real.

I think your comment really hits the nail on the head, IMHO the frustration shouldn’t be directed toward Apple but more toward the groups who have pushed the tracking practice so far to necessitate such draconian measures.

schoenobateson Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

A ThreeJS clone on go to learn more OpenGL and Vulkan and Go, plus and Ordnance Survey map viewer with MapboxGL JS, also teaching the kids some more python ...

schoenobateson Show HN: WhatFreeWords: Open-Source Geocoding for What3Words

yes - very good point

schoenobateson Show HN: WhatFreeWords: Open-Source Geocoding for What3Words

Would this not be possible though by sharing your lon/lat though? Plus easier to navigate to using gmaps or the like.

On the flip side, I have read stories of w3w success in giving an address to people where a normal street address is not possible, e.g. favelas https://www.reuters.com/article/us-innovation-what-3-words/w...

schoenobateson Ask HN: What is the state of C++ vs. Rust?

I'm not a RUST chap, but came across this the other day:

http://www.arewewebyet.org/

I've done most of my web service work in either Java or Go, but I'd like to give Rust a try for comparison at some point.