Steve Bennett
@stevage.bsky.social
Mapbox consultant. Gardener. Grump.
https://hire.stevebennett.me
https://hire.stevebennett.me
Ok, here's a mappy challenge: where is the pen pointing on this map? Maybe South Australian outback somewhere?
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November 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Ok, here's a mappy challenge: where is the pen pointing on this map? Maybe South Australian outback somewhere?
From youtu.be/U9zq_4ED-pI?...
From youtu.be/U9zq_4ED-pI?...
Weirdest thing: if you go to www.nine.com.au, watch the main menu bar. When it first loads, the first three items are "Watch TV | News | Sport" then it quickly changes to "Watch TV | National | World | Sport". Wonder what internal chaos led to this hacky JavaScript.
nine.com.au -- the new ninemsn - News, Sport, TV, Entertainment, Lifestyle | Latest Breaking News Headlines from Australia and the world
Meet the new nine.com.au. Get the latest news, sport, TV, travel, fashion, fitness, recipes, celebrity news and exclusive content, all for free at nine.com.au, the home of Nine
www.nine.com.au
October 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Weirdest thing: if you go to www.nine.com.au, watch the main menu bar. When it first loads, the first three items are "Watch TV | News | Sport" then it quickly changes to "Watch TV | National | World | Sport". Wonder what internal chaos led to this hacky JavaScript.
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Heidi Meudt & I will give a FREE virtual 1hr Wiki webinar focusing on plant biodiversity. Open to anyone wanting to improve their digital outreach skills by enriching #Wikipedia, #Wikidata & #WikiCommons.
Tuesday 14th of October at 3pm NZST.
Register to get link:
tepapa.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Tuesday 14th of October at 3pm NZST.
Register to get link:
tepapa.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Wiki for Botanists - online introductory session. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Free virtual Wiki for Botanists online introductory session on 14 October
Our aim will be to convince attendees how impactful engagement with the Wikiverse is, giving a brief introduction to Wikipedi...
tepapa.zoom.us
September 1, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Heidi Meudt & I will give a FREE virtual 1hr Wiki webinar focusing on plant biodiversity. Open to anyone wanting to improve their digital outreach skills by enriching #Wikipedia, #Wikidata & #WikiCommons.
Tuesday 14th of October at 3pm NZST.
Register to get link:
tepapa.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Tuesday 14th of October at 3pm NZST.
Register to get link:
tepapa.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
I just really, really want a "no politics" toggle for all social media platforms. Strangely, YouTube and Facebook are where I see the least, without having to do anything. X and Bluesky show the most, despite my efforts to block all the relevant keywords.
October 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I just really, really want a "no politics" toggle for all social media platforms. Strangely, YouTube and Facebook are where I see the least, without having to do anything. X and Bluesky show the most, despite my efforts to block all the relevant keywords.
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I love Shakra’s singing and wanted to play along - 🎶🪡
September 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I love Shakra’s singing and wanted to play along - 🎶🪡
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I have to consider the possibility that the pain in my little finger is caused by a very awkward keyboard shortcut I keep using: Ctrl-shift-1.
August 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I have to consider the possibility that the pain in my little finger is caused by a very awkward keyboard shortcut I keep using: Ctrl-shift-1.
What's with all the Meetup comment spam lately? One of the groups I'm in is spamming out 1-2 comments, always casual job opportunities. And it's a big group, 10k+ people, 10+ organisers...
August 22, 2025 at 6:17 AM
What's with all the Meetup comment spam lately? One of the groups I'm in is spamming out 1-2 comments, always casual job opportunities. And it's a big group, 10k+ people, 10+ organisers...
Is creating my own private Discord just to have conversations with myself weird? Like note taking, but...in chat form.
August 4, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Is creating my own private Discord just to have conversations with myself weird? Like note taking, but...in chat form.
Frustrating thing about OpenLibrary's tagging scheme is a tag like "Novels" is used for books that *are* novels and books *about* novels.
July 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Frustrating thing about OpenLibrary's tagging scheme is a tag like "Novels" is used for books that *are* novels and books *about* novels.
Now there's a pretty datavis accident
July 25, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Now there's a pretty datavis accident
It's been like 20 years since Macbooks flipped the orientation of the Apple logo on the lid, but I still open mine the wrong way half the time :/ Such an infuriating design decision, prioritising Apple's branding needs over ease of use.
July 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
It's been like 20 years since Macbooks flipped the orientation of the Apple logo on the lid, but I still open mine the wrong way half the time :/ Such an infuriating design decision, prioritising Apple's branding needs over ease of use.
Ok this is weird. I can only find one NodeJS ORM for DuckDB: www.npmjs.com/package/duck...
At first glance, it looks pretty reasonable. But it has basically zero uptake: no weekly downloads, no open issues. Why not?
At first glance, it looks pretty reasonable. But it has basically zero uptake: no weekly downloads, no open issues. Why not?
duckdb-tinyorm
TinyORM for Duckdb, easy setup. Latest version: 3.0.1, last published: 3 months ago. Start using duckdb-tinyorm in your project by running `npm i duckdb-tinyorm`. There are 1 other projects in the npm...
www.npmjs.com
July 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Ok this is weird. I can only find one NodeJS ORM for DuckDB: www.npmjs.com/package/duck...
At first glance, it looks pretty reasonable. But it has basically zero uptake: no weekly downloads, no open issues. Why not?
At first glance, it looks pretty reasonable. But it has basically zero uptake: no weekly downloads, no open issues. Why not?
Can anyone remember why we used to put gradients all over our websites in the 2000s?
July 18, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Can anyone remember why we used to put gradients all over our websites in the 2000s?
Does @theguardian.com think "spores" is a verb? Confusion with "spurs"?
July 11, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Does @theguardian.com think "spores" is a verb? Confusion with "spurs"?
I seriously cannot comprehend the mindset of shutting down a site, hiding behind the euphemism of "important changes", and claiming that this somehow demonstrates your "respect" for the users. Then claiming you're thinking deeply about the community, before weeks later announcing your funemployment.
July 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I seriously cannot comprehend the mindset of shutting down a site, hiding behind the euphemism of "important changes", and claiming that this somehow demonstrates your "respect" for the users. Then claiming you're thinking deeply about the community, before weeks later announcing your funemployment.
Whoa, Glitch is ending app hosting...in a week! Not sure why I didn't get an email. This is bad news - I use Glitch as a (very low traffic) backend for a couple of hobby projects. Not sure what I'll use instead.
blog.glitch.com/post/changes...
blog.glitch.com/post/changes...
Important changes are coming to Glitch
We’ve got an important update for the Glitch community today: We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch.
blog.glitch.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Whoa, Glitch is ending app hosting...in a week! Not sure why I didn't get an email. This is bad news - I use Glitch as a (very low traffic) backend for a couple of hobby projects. Not sure what I'll use instead.
blog.glitch.com/post/changes...
blog.glitch.com/post/changes...
9 months after announcing the impending shutdown of PivotalTracker, the pivotaltracker.com domain is completely dead. Weird.
pivotaltracker.com
June 24, 2025 at 4:34 AM
9 months after announcing the impending shutdown of PivotalTracker, the pivotaltracker.com domain is completely dead. Weird.
So cool to see my humble site, opentrees.org, cited and even screenshotted in academic journals. In this case, an article in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
June 11, 2025 at 6:02 AM
So cool to see my humble site, opentrees.org, cited and even screenshotted in academic journals. In this case, an article in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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MapLibre Tiles github.com/maplibre/map... a potential replacement to MVT
GitHub - maplibre/maplibre-tile-spec: Next generation vector tiles format
Next generation vector tiles format. Contribute to maplibre/maplibre-tile-spec development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 8, 2024 at 2:13 AM
MapLibre Tiles github.com/maplibre/map... a potential replacement to MVT
For the first time, a client has asked me take over a project they vibe coded with Cursor. Eep. It's a whole new world out there.
May 15, 2025 at 8:02 AM
For the first time, a client has asked me take over a project they vibe coded with Cursor. Eep. It's a whole new world out there.
It's wild to me just how fast "vibe coding" has caught on and become an absolutely accepted term. It was first used just 3 months ago.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_co...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_co...
Vibe coding - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
May 9, 2025 at 12:37 AM
It's wild to me just how fast "vibe coding" has caught on and become an absolutely accepted term. It was first used just 3 months ago.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_co...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_co...
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We’re now sharing a space with The Londonist on @tripgeo.bsky.social Scrambled Maps Collections tripgeo.com/scrambledcol...
Lots of fun for geo puzzlers
Lots of fun for geo puzzlers
May 2, 2025 at 7:12 AM
We’re now sharing a space with The Londonist on @tripgeo.bsky.social Scrambled Maps Collections tripgeo.com/scrambledcol...
Lots of fun for geo puzzlers
Lots of fun for geo puzzlers
The invoicing platform I use changed their free tier, so I can't use it anymore.
So of course I built my own.
I assume this is normal?
So of course I built my own.
I assume this is normal?
May 2, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The invoicing platform I use changed their free tier, so I can't use it anymore.
So of course I built my own.
I assume this is normal?
So of course I built my own.
I assume this is normal?
Yeah, YAML really is cursed.
Credit: noyaml.com
Credit: noyaml.com
April 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Yeah, YAML really is cursed.
Credit: noyaml.com
Credit: noyaml.com