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Volker Mische

@vmx.cx

Geo, offline/local first, decentralized web. Head of Geospatial at the IPFS Foundation. Making Noise https://github.com/pipedown/noise. Previously Protocol Labs, Couchbase. I'm bridged to ActivityPub via https://fed.brid.gy/bsky/vmx.cx

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GitHub - cool-japan/ipfrs: IPFRS - Inter-Planet File RUST System IPFRS - Inter-Planet File RUST System. Contribute to cool-japan/ipfrs development by creating an account on GitHub.

Thanks for posting this. There's even an IPFS Rust implementation in the repo: github.com/cool-japan/i...

10.03.2026 19:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - cool-japan/oxigdal: OxiGDAL is a pure Rust geospatial data abstraction library designed for modern cloud-native workflows. OxiGDAL is a pure Rust geospatial data abstraction library designed for modern cloud-native workflows. - cool-japan/oxigdal

#rust rewrite of #gdal
I am skeptical, but let's see ...
https://github.com/cool-japan/oxigdal

10.03.2026 18:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Jetzt brauchen die nur noch einen ordentlichen `@sz.de` handle und los geht's.

10.03.2026 19:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A New Chapter for Bluesky - Bluesky After several intense and incredible years building Bluesky from the ground up, I've decided to step back as CEO and transition to a new role as Bluesky's Chief Innovation Officer.

Some personal news: I’m transitioning from CEO to a new role as Bluesky’s Chief Innovation Officer! I’m excited to welcome @toni.bsky.team as our interim CEO.

More here: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

09.03.2026 19:08 πŸ‘ 6110 πŸ” 921 πŸ’¬ 580 πŸ“Œ 417
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Igalia Coding Experience | Igalia - Open Source Consultancy and Development Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers an...

Global remote, 🚨paid🚨 open source grant program from @igalia.com for folks to learn more about Linux, Graphics, JS DevTools, Multimedia + GStreamer or Web Standards.

- apply by April 3
- €7k for 450 hours over 3-6 months
- uni students or self directed learners

www.igalia.com/coding-exper...

04.03.2026 14:31 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I've one more: I just figured out that `goat publish` also works on single files. So for consistency the publish command could be `goat lex publish ./lexicons/com.example.myapp.record.json`.

04.03.2026 23:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I prefer your guide over atproto.com/guides/publi.... Yours is easier when you only want to publish a single schema, the official one doesn't even mention that you can just name the file with dots and not having a deeply nested directory structure.

04.03.2026 21:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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fix: clearer error message in `goat lex publish` by kanadgupta Β· Pull Request #42 Β· bluesky-social/goat Hi there! I was trying to follow these docs on publishing lexicons and I was briefly confused by the lack of an output when running goat lex publish. Turns out, I needed to log in! I noticed when s...

@kanadgupta.com Thanks for the fix at github.com/bluesky-soci.... I was running into this yesterday and was about to fix it right now, but then I luckily found that it's already fixed.

04.03.2026 12:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

@lexicon.garden I couldn't find any repo powering the site, hence posting feedback here. In the "Adding Lexicons" guide in the "Creating DNS Entries" section, it talks about the DID, but not how to get it. I would mention that you can get it via `goat resolve <your-account-name>`.

04.03.2026 12:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity We reward complexity and ignore simplicity. In interviews, design reviews, and promotions. Here’s how to fix it.

You can't write a compelling promotion packet about the thing you didn't build. And that's the whole problem.

terriblesoftware.org/2026/03/03/n...

03.03.2026 12:42 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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The Future of AI The Parents’ Paradox: AI, Ethics, and the Limits of Machine Morality This post is based on a talk I gave at The AI & Automation Conference in London on February 25, 2026, and my slides. A…

"The future of AI" by Lucija Gregov is really a good philosophical read on where AI stands and where we are heading lucijagregov.com/2026/02/26/t...

01.03.2026 01:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I would expand it to IPLD (disclaimer: that's what I've been working on)

27.02.2026 20:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Original post on fedihum.org

This info just came over the (highly recommended) #geohumanities mailing list: The working papers from the very productive #OpenMapsMeeting hosted in 2024 by @TUDelftLibrary at the National Archives in The Hague is online. Documenting innovative work with #historical #maps using #IIIF Hopefully […]

27.02.2026 20:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sadly true, though some parts still live on and get a revival due to ATProto.

27.02.2026 20:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Length of Africa vs Russia

6 more maps: brilliantmaps.com/mercator-...

27.02.2026 06:01 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

I also try to get more geo folks bridged from Mastodon via fed.brid.gy (and the other way round). So far with limited success. /cc @6artvde.bsky.social

27.02.2026 08:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Practical Decentralization The point of decentralization is to guarantee the rights of individuals and communities on the Internet. Pulling that off is a balancing act between practicality and ideology.

New blogpost about atproto

It's not federation, it's not a p2p mesh. It's a secret third thing: practical.

www.pfrazee.com/blog/practic...

25.02.2026 17:13 πŸ‘ 568 πŸ” 139 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 32

@bobbl.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/reba...

24.02.2026 08:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Population Density Map Of Italy

See 100+ more: brilliantmaps.com/populatio...

24.02.2026 07:01 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is there any place to watch the progress of this/chance to chime in in case further discussion is needed. I really want to see that happen :)

20.02.2026 07:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Permissioned data is a love triangle Permissioned data is a love triangle between the user, the identities they grant permissions to, and the applications everyone uses to view controlled data. We don't need to change or reinvent the protocol to have it, because ATProtocol already supports it.

New blog post is up! When we talk about controlled data on ATProtocol, we focus on users and who they grant access to. But there's always a third party: the applications that store, relay, and render the data.

18.02.2026 20:40 πŸ‘ 93 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 2

STAC reports the file type for the reflectance as Zarr v2 "application/vnd+zarr; version=2; profile=multiscales" api.explorer.eopf.copernicus.eu/stac/collect... If there's a better place to report this, let me know.

18.02.2026 14:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sentinel Zarr and an Ecosystem Ready to Visualize β€” Development Seed Building visualization and analysis capacity for the next generation of Sentinel data.

7 months ago ESA asked: can the open-source ecosystem handle Sentinel Zarr? πŸ›°οΈπŸ—ΊοΈ

We pushed early GeoZarr conventions with:
β†’ GDAL
β†’ OpenLayers
β†’ TiTiler/rasterio
β†’ STAC
β†’ rioxarray

No proprietary format. No lock-in. Just interoperability.

developmentseed.org/blog/2026-02-13-eopf-explorer-launch

16.02.2026 21:25 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Oh cool! It's good to see that you are using sharding and single files. Will the sample service be like that? 🀞

18.02.2026 14:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Are here any plans to move to Zarr v3? I see benefits in using large files (sharding) for data distribution as well as for verifiability/integrity checks.

18.02.2026 11:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Palestine’s West Bank Archipelago

More about the map: brilliantmaps.com/palestine...

16.02.2026 14:01 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bridgy Fed Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.

To all my #FOSS4G friends on the ActivityPub side of things. It would be great if you could bridge your account, so that folks like me on the ATProto side can follow you. For information on how to do it, see fed.brid.gy/docs#bluesky...

16.02.2026 13:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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FOSS4G Europe (@foss4geurope@fosstodon.org) Attached: 1 image πŸ”” Our #FOSS4GE2026 Call for Papers for the General Track is now open. If you work with FOSS4G, we are happy to welcome your contributions on software, governance, policies, use ca...

Call for Papers for the General Track of the #FOSS4G Europe is open: fosstodon.org/@foss4geurop... #OSGeo #geo

16.02.2026 13:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Is that carb ultra-processed? Here's a test even a kid can do The latest nutrition guidelines urge Americans to avoid highly-processed food. But, when it comes to carbs, many people don't know which ones are ultra-processed. Here's an easy way to find out.

The latest nutrition guidelines urge Americans to avoid highly-processed food. But, when it comes to carbs, many people don't know which ones are ultra-processed. Here's an easy way to find out. n.pr/3MxnwFO

16.02.2026 10:31 πŸ‘ 195 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 10
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DASLing Group Β· Zoom Β· Luma DASLing is a series of working sessions for the people who are implementing or specifying DASL tech. Part of the IPFS Project. πŸ’Ž Agenda: Perceptual…

Hey friends! Reminder that for those of you who are passionate about DASL (and who isn't?), there's a DASLing Group meeting this coming Thursday: luma.com/zqo7ksph

On the menu: @makeworld.space's Perceptual Fingerprints and Web Tiles.

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