Contributing Advent 13: Haiyan Progress Video
Once in a while, the London OpenStreetMap group organises a hack weekend where a bunch of us hack on various different projects, such as the new design, project OSRM or using Food Hygiene Open Data to improve OpenStreetMap.
The last few that I have attended were always close to the end of the year, so I tend to use them to make my "year of edits" videos:
This year instead I focussed on creating a mapping party progress video for the great work that the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) has been doing for organising and mapping the destruction of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. There have been lots of media coverage but I wanted to show how much they have added in the two weeks since the thyphoon hit—and what better to do this then with a progress video.
I have made many videos before, mostly for mapping parties in London, but also for other areas, such as Burgos in Spain, and for the Carse of Gowrie. At first I wanted to make them for the large area around Tacloban but in the end it made more sense to just do a slightly smaller area:
I have used a slightly tweaked variant of my OSM progress software that you can find on GitHub: https://github.com/derickr/osm-progress — I'll soon clean up my changes and push them to the repository as well.
Life Line
I've finished reading Children of Memory, the third book in the series.
Another interesting take on forms of intelligent life.
A fourth one is going to get released later this year.
Updated a post_box, a beauty shop, and a restaurant; Confirmed 2 clothes shops, 2 pet shops, and a restaurant
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Updated a bicycle_parking
Updated 2 waste_baskets
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Created 3 waste_baskets; Updated 3 bus_stops, 2 benches, and 2 waste_baskets
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Merge branch 'xdebug_3_5'
Merged pull request #1071
Fixed issue #2411: Native Path Mapping is not applied to the initial …
Created 2 waste_baskets; Updated 3 waste_baskets, 2 benches, and 2 other objects; Deleted a waste_basket
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RE: https://phpc.social/@phpc_tv/116274041642323081
Now that phpc.tv and phpc.social are part of the same umbrella, I've upped my yearly contributions to their Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/phpcommunity/projects/phpc-social
Merge branch 'xdebug_3_5'
Merged pull request #1070
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Fixed issue #2405: Handle minimum path in .xdebug directory discovery
I've published a new blog post: "Human Creations", on the difference in content generation by LLMs, and the creation of text, art and code by humans.
You can find it at https://derickrethans.nl/human-creations.html or at @blog
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RE: https://phpc.social/@afilina/116274024588235234
It's good to see that more and more people are realising that the Web can be for-good, without all the enshittification.
That's why I'm happy to see endeavours like phpc.tv springing up, and helping out where I can.
Taking back the control of how the Web is for people, by people, without big tech making it all shit.
Created a waste_basket; Updated 5 crossings and a bicycle_parking
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