James Milner
@jameslmilner.bsky.social
Staff Engineer, open source fan, hacking on geospatial in my spare time. Lives in London
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James Milner
@jameslmilner.bsky.social
· Jan 13
After 2.5+ years, Terra Draw v1 is finally released 😌
✏️ Draw on web maps with the 10 built in modes (Point, Line, Polygon, Rectangle etc!)
🗺️ Supports Leaflet, @maplibre.org, @openlayers.org, Google Maps, Mapbox
Check it out: github.com/JamesLMilner... #geojson #maplibre #leafletjs #openlayers
✏️ Draw on web maps with the 10 built in modes (Point, Line, Polygon, Rectangle etc!)
🗺️ Supports Leaflet, @maplibre.org, @openlayers.org, Google Maps, Mapbox
Check it out: github.com/JamesLMilner... #geojson #maplibre #leafletjs #openlayers
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it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.
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Do you have an open source geo project that could make a difference in the UK? We’ve got £6,000 to share between £500–£1000 projects! Submit your idea by 30 Nov 2025 to [email protected]
💵🌍 #foss4guk #OpenSource #foss4g #gischat
💵🌍 #foss4guk #OpenSource #foss4g #gischat
November 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Do you have an open source geo project that could make a difference in the UK? We’ve got £6,000 to share between £500–£1000 projects! Submit your idea by 30 Nov 2025 to [email protected]
💵🌍 #foss4guk #OpenSource #foss4g #gischat
💵🌍 #foss4guk #OpenSource #foss4g #gischat
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AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
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For years, HalfStack London has been powered by curiosity, creativity, and community.
Next week, we meet one final time, not just to attend, but to celebrate what we built together. 💛
📅 𝟏𝟐 𝐍𝐨𝐯 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 | 𝟗𝟑 𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭, 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡
🎟️ halfstackconf.com/london
#HalfStack #HalfStackLondon #halfstackconf
Next week, we meet one final time, not just to attend, but to celebrate what we built together. 💛
📅 𝟏𝟐 𝐍𝐨𝐯 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 | 𝟗𝟑 𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭, 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡
🎟️ halfstackconf.com/london
#HalfStack #HalfStackLondon #halfstackconf
November 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
For years, HalfStack London has been powered by curiosity, creativity, and community.
Next week, we meet one final time, not just to attend, but to celebrate what we built together. 💛
📅 𝟏𝟐 𝐍𝐨𝐯 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 | 𝟗𝟑 𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭, 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡
🎟️ halfstackconf.com/london
#HalfStack #HalfStackLondon #halfstackconf
Next week, we meet one final time, not just to attend, but to celebrate what we built together. 💛
📅 𝟏𝟐 𝐍𝐨𝐯 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 | 𝟗𝟑 𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭, 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡
🎟️ halfstackconf.com/london
#HalfStack #HalfStackLondon #halfstackconf
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Experimenting with a little undo/redo ↩️
October 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Experimenting with a little undo/redo ↩️
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A CSS terrain generator. No WebGL, just stacked grids and 3D transforms: terra.layoutit.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
A CSS terrain generator. No WebGL, just stacked grids and 3D transforms: terra.layoutit.com
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What a great post from @opensourcepledge.com member @zerodha.com, who are giving $1 million to Open Source projects. 🙏
“FOSS projects that the world depends on ought to receive financial backing as the norm, [and] collective societal recognition is owed to maintainers.”
floss.fund/blog/second-...
“FOSS projects that the world depends on ought to receive financial backing as the norm, [and] collective societal recognition is owed to maintainers.”
floss.fund/blog/second-...
The second tranche and anniversary reflection
floss.fund
October 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
What a great post from @opensourcepledge.com member @zerodha.com, who are giving $1 million to Open Source projects. 🙏
“FOSS projects that the world depends on ought to receive financial backing as the norm, [and] collective societal recognition is owed to maintainers.”
floss.fund/blog/second-...
“FOSS projects that the world depends on ought to receive financial backing as the norm, [and] collective societal recognition is owed to maintainers.”
floss.fund/blog/second-...
Would be interesting to see some analysis of projects that get more issues/pull requests on a weekend vs weekdays. I don't get many weekends issues anymore which makes me feel my projects are used at work rather than in hobby projects?
October 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Would be interesting to see some analysis of projects that get more issues/pull requests on a weekend vs weekdays. I don't get many weekends issues anymore which makes me feel my projects are used at work rather than in hobby projects?
I got some marker pins commissioned to celebrate adding marker support to Terra Draw 😎
October 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM
I got some marker pins commissioned to celebrate adding marker support to Terra Draw 😎
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We have now uploaded all the recorded sessions from #FOSS4GUK 2025 in Leeds. 📹🦉
We would now invite everyone else to our youtube channel if you would like to catch up on the 35 recorded session.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCKv...
We would now invite everyone else to our youtube channel if you would like to catch up on the 35 recorded session.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCKv...
Welcome to FOSS4G:UK 2025
YouTube video by FOSS4G:UK
www.youtube.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
We have now uploaded all the recorded sessions from #FOSS4GUK 2025 in Leeds. 📹🦉
We would now invite everyone else to our youtube channel if you would like to catch up on the 35 recorded session.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCKv...
We would now invite everyone else to our youtube channel if you would like to catch up on the 35 recorded session.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCKv...
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almost there with text rendering in webgl in @openlayers.org
🚀🚀🚀
🚀🚀🚀
October 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
almost there with text rendering in webgl in @openlayers.org
🚀🚀🚀
🚀🚀🚀
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i think the 2005-2015 era open source boom was built on a nice job environment where people had a little free time and employers believed in creativity
the free time dried up, everyone burned out, 2015-2025 open source has been explicitly targeted toward getting funding & making money. what's next?
the free time dried up, everyone burned out, 2015-2025 open source has been explicitly targeted toward getting funding & making money. what's next?
October 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
i think the 2005-2015 era open source boom was built on a nice job environment where people had a little free time and employers believed in creativity
the free time dried up, everyone burned out, 2015-2025 open source has been explicitly targeted toward getting funding & making money. what's next?
the free time dried up, everyone burned out, 2015-2025 open source has been explicitly targeted toward getting funding & making money. what's next?
After a long time, I finally figured out how to support adding markers universally in Terra Draw. Now there's a marker mode that works for @maplibre.org , @openlayers.org, Leaflet etc. It uses their native marker support to allow you to add icons to the map, like you would add a point
October 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
After a long time, I finally figured out how to support adding markers universally in Terra Draw. Now there's a marker mode that works for @maplibre.org , @openlayers.org, Leaflet etc. It uses their native marker support to allow you to add icons to the map, like you would add a point
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🎙️Join the next episode of the Great Data Products podcast LIVE on Oct 29 at 4pm PDT! @jed.co will sit down for a conversation with @bdon.org about building maps for the web. Brandon is the creator of @protomaps.com. Register to watch live here ⤵️
greatdataproducts.com/housekeeping...
greatdataproducts.com/housekeeping...
October 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
🎙️Join the next episode of the Great Data Products podcast LIVE on Oct 29 at 4pm PDT! @jed.co will sit down for a conversation with @bdon.org about building maps for the web. Brandon is the creator of @protomaps.com. Register to watch live here ⤵️
greatdataproducts.com/housekeeping...
greatdataproducts.com/housekeeping...
Forgot to mention, I'll be talking about this at FOSS4G UK tomorrow morning in Leeds 🗺️
I've been working on an open source library to do routing in JavaScript called Terra Route. This morning I've added functionality for understanding complex graphs, you can get info like the number of nodes, edges, lengths, degrees, connected components etc! github.com/JamesLMilner...
September 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Forgot to mention, I'll be talking about this at FOSS4G UK tomorrow morning in Leeds 🗺️
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I've been working on an open source library to do routing in JavaScript called Terra Route. This morning I've added functionality for understanding complex graphs, you can get info like the number of nodes, edges, lengths, degrees, connected components etc! github.com/JamesLMilner...
September 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I've been working on an open source library to do routing in JavaScript called Terra Route. This morning I've added functionality for understanding complex graphs, you can get info like the number of nodes, edges, lengths, degrees, connected components etc! github.com/JamesLMilner...
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Unwritten rule:
Deep technical programming topics
🤝
Blog with barely any CSS
Deep technical programming topics
🤝
Blog with barely any CSS
September 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Unwritten rule:
Deep technical programming topics
🤝
Blog with barely any CSS
Deep technical programming topics
🤝
Blog with barely any CSS
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This is the final regsitration call for #FOSS4GUK in Leeds on 1st and 2nd October. 🚨🚨
We have about 20 tickets left. Day tickets are also available. 🎟️🎟️🎟️
uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2025...
We close registration 21st Sept and we really would like you to meet all of our amazing sponsors in Leeds.
We have about 20 tickets left. Day tickets are also available. 🎟️🎟️🎟️
uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2025...
We close registration 21st Sept and we really would like you to meet all of our amazing sponsors in Leeds.
September 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This is the final regsitration call for #FOSS4GUK in Leeds on 1st and 2nd October. 🚨🚨
We have about 20 tickets left. Day tickets are also available. 🎟️🎟️🎟️
uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2025...
We close registration 21st Sept and we really would like you to meet all of our amazing sponsors in Leeds.
We have about 20 tickets left. Day tickets are also available. 🎟️🎟️🎟️
uk.osgeo.org/foss4guk2025...
We close registration 21st Sept and we really would like you to meet all of our amazing sponsors in Leeds.
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FOSDEM 2026 - FOSDEM 2026: 31st January and 1st February
Brussels / 31 & 1 January 2026
fosdem.org
September 19, 2025 at 9:22 AM
AI powered 'spec driven development' would require organisations to carefully and deeply articulate what they want in clear and precise language - something developers have been begging for already for 50+ years. Maybe there is a harder and deeper problem at play here...
September 17, 2025 at 8:48 AM
AI powered 'spec driven development' would require organisations to carefully and deeply articulate what they want in clear and precise language - something developers have been begging for already for 50+ years. Maybe there is a harder and deeper problem at play here...
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I'm working on a report on the causes of burnout in open source software. If you're a part of the OSS community, I would love to hear your thoughts, either here on Bluesky, or privately via email (see post). Thanks 😊
mirandaheath.website/report-on-bu...
mirandaheath.website/report-on-bu...
Report on Burnout in Open Source Software
I am currently working on a report on the causes of burnout in open source software, and am inviting the OSS community to share their thoughts!
mirandaheath.website
September 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I'm working on a report on the causes of burnout in open source software. If you're a part of the OSS community, I would love to hear your thoughts, either here on Bluesky, or privately via email (see post). Thanks 😊
mirandaheath.website/report-on-bu...
mirandaheath.website/report-on-bu...