Mastodawn

Hey all - I recently joined Livemap, a Swiss startup based in Zürich. I am the sole "map guy" here now, and in need of a routing algorithm / engine specialist (significantly beyond "I deployed Valhalla and got it to work). Drop me a line if you can recommend someone (including yourself)! CH / EU preferred but not required.

John McKerrell 5d ago

First laser cutting in a long time, I think it came out ok! #weeknotes

John McKerrell Mar 5

RE: https://does.social/@McKerrellHouse/116177149496917122

Very glad to be able to read my battery status again, apparently it has been about 4 years!

John McKerrell Mar 5

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John McKerrell Mar 5

@coldclimate I just switched to mythic beasts for my email hosting. Been fine so far but the set up is quite geeky, not sure if they are expecting to do that bit themselves or not. I mostly use IMAP though they have webmail too.

John McKerrell Feb 27

Brooke Feb 26

I've just published a reference for anyone using git while trans, explaining how to hide or remove your deadname in git repositories

Please share ❤️

https://code.curly.kiwi/2026/02/27/using-git-while-trans/

Using git while trans | Brooke's code blog

A guide for hiding or removing your deadname in git repositories.

John McKerrell Feb 19

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Then Try This Feb 19

So much khipu documentation is paywalled, copyrighted or otherwise owned (not often by Andean people, of course) so we've been doing some drawing for this workshop to explain how to make your own khipu.

All the workshop materials will be creative commons CC-BY.

John McKerrell Jan 30

OpenStreetMap Ops Team Jan 28

To keep #OpenStreetMap.org up and running while we're being deluged by scrapers, we've blocked 320,000+ primarily residential IPv4 addresses in the last 24 hours (+ 100,000 IPv6) involved in scraping.

If you need OSM data, please don't scrape the website - use the official downloads at https://planet.openstreetmap.org
🙏🌍 #AI #Bots #Abuse

Planet OSM

John McKerrell Jan 22

Not sure I’m going to be able to follow these instructions…

John McKerrell Jan 18

DoES Liverpool Jan 18

A great turnout for a very successful Hack the Space Day yesterday! Lots of activity across the space, and rooms left sparkling clean, as well as a big clear-out of unwanted cardboard and other rubbish "for the tip". Thanks to everyone who got involved. ✨

Our Event Space and "Dinky" meeting room are available to hire. Get in touch to find out more.
#WeekNotes

John McKerrell Jan 17

Chris Huffee Jan 17

More heroes added to the @DoESLiverpool wall.
Including @methoddan @arthrowl @zarino and @Snoof
#weeknotes