Maps (the non-digital variety)
As you probably know, I am pretty much into OpenStreetMap and digital maps. I have always found (paper) maps, and different visualisations fascinating. I found myself at London GeoMob last Thursday where I encountered two types of non-digital, non-paper maps.
The first one, was a 1800s style rendering of London from Wellingtons Travel — fully hand-drawn. I found them quite beautiful, and would be happy to have one on my wall. Some pictures that I took of it are here:
I am even more excited about a second project: SplashMaps. At some point you probably have been in a situation where you were out and about walking somewhere in a city or the country and you had to find your way. In cities you can often ask people and/or get our your phone, but that doesn't cut it when you are on some remote hill in Scotland. You need a paper map (for more than one reason!). And of course, it is always raining (we're in Scotland after all!). Ordnance Survey will sell you laminated Explorer Maps for this, which have saved me quite a few times. However, they are bulky and the place that you are looking for is either always on a fold, or on the opposite site of the map!
At GeoMob a solution showed up in the form of SplashMaps—they are basically a map printed on cloth, water-proof, but you can still use a marker to mark out your route, wash it, and it is good as new again. Here is a picture of one of their prototypes of the New Forest:
The maps are specifically made with walking and cycling (in national parks) in mind, so it has all the features that are important: paths, bike repair shops, bogs and pubs (and a lot more!). They are currently running a funding round on KickStarter and I would urge you to check them out. I have backed the project and looking forwards to getting my maps for my favourite parks... I do need to think about which ones they are!
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
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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 …
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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.
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