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🆕 blog! “Rebuilding FourSquare for ActivityPub using OpenStreetMap”
I used to like the original FourSquare. The "mayor" stuff was a bit silly, and my friends never left that many reviews, but I loved being able to signal to my friends "I am at this cool museum" or "We're at this pub if you want to meet" or "Spendi…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/rebuilding-foursquare-for-activitypub-using-openstreetmap/
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#ActivityPub #fediverse #FOURSQUARE #geolocation #OpenStreetMap

I used to like the original FourSquare. The "mayor" stuff was a bit silly, and my friends never left that many reviews, but I loved being able to signal to my friends "I am at this cool museum" or "We're at this pub if you want to meet" or "Spending the day at the park". So, is there a way to recreate that early Web 2.0 experience with open data and ActivityPub? Let's find out! This quest is…
Video Games in the 80s: Run! Jump! Eat this flower! Collect the coins!
Video Games Now: You are a broken man, haunted by the choices you've made. You do not fear the sweet embrace of death, but you still have unfinished business.
Latest comic: The AI Journalism Awards
#comic #cartoon #cartoons #technology #AI #journalism #news #media #tech
Flathub now has over one million active users https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/flathub-now-has-over-one-million-active-users/
Ah, Linux, you gotta love it right? There's numerous different ways to do the same thing. One of those that people like to argue about it packaging and how to install things on Linux. Flathub with Flatpaks at least seem to be popular and it keeps growing.
I honestly hope to see Steam on iOS, with cross-buy, cross-save, and cross-compatibility. We could theoretically see something like Steam's Proton layer add automatic game compatibility with the platform.
Or something like Setapp, with subscription access to bundles of apps.
Alternate app stores aren't simply a bad thing.
Twenty years ago I helped make a Flash game called Haggis Hurl; this is the wee haggis I drew for it.
We've re-used the basic game engine in post-Flash games but never got round to putting the haggis version together again. Really should. It was cute.
You pinged them from a catapult and they went "wheeeeeee!"
#haggis #BurnsNight #silly #drawing #cute #haggisHurl #greatChieftainOThePuddinRace
Oh look at that — BookWyrm gets mentioned in the Washington Post.
What is BookWyrm‽ —
BookWyrm is similar to Mastodon, in that it is an open-source'ish (with restrictions) social-networking platform for the Fediverse, BUT —
Rather than being about micro-blogging, BookWyrm is about books, tracking what you are reading, and sharing it with others.
Think GoodReads for the Fediverse.