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Map search (geocoding) and data crunching. Cofounder @opencage
. Love cycling in remote areas of the world. 🌎🌍🌏
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mtmail10h ago
jomo15h ago

TIL:
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is a single Unicode codepoint (U+FDFD) for "bismillāh ar-raḥmān ar-raḥīm".

"A monument from the era when rendering was baked into the encoding because nobody trusted the renderer to do anything, preserved forever, like a fly in amber that recites"

https://lr0.org/blog/p/arabic/

An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt | La Vita Nouva

mtmail1d ago
Volkswagen, being efficient, uses numbers for their streets. And car model names (Golf, ID.3, GTI), for the bus routes. Wolfsburg, Germany https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/52.440437/10.743781 #openstreetmap
mtmail3d ago
"The U.S. research ecosystem remains vulnerable because it relies on a relatively small number of commercial suppliers and import channels for a resource that is already in short supply." Sounds like generic business news until you see the resource are "nonhuman primates", aka monkeys. https://www.science.org/content/article/leading-supplier-research-monkeys-declares-bankruptcy
mtmail4d ago
Show threadBodo Tasche4d ago

It is online. Thanks to @openstreetmap I was able to create this amazing dialog.

I am now basically helping people to connect ISBNs with openstreetmap location ids 🤣.

Try it out on https://bookpile.org and tell me what you think 🤗

mtmail4d ago
"The 25 nicest flags in America according to the North American Vexillological Association" Click for the ugliest https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/good-design-is-ruining-american-flags
mtmail4d ago
"LGBTQIA2S+" - "Leslie Gets Bagels; Taylor Questions Identity And Two-Spirit Plus". There must be a better way to remember the acronym and it doesn't even cover pansexual, nonbinary, genderfluid and demisexual yet.
mtmail4d ago
OpenCage 👉🌍4d ago

Our OpenStreetMap Syria interview with @[email protected] is out today.

In this conversation Omran shares his experience as a humanitarian and development technologist. He talks about his involvement with the OSM community in Syria and how open mapping can support communities during periods of significant change.

📍 Read the full interview here: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/openstreetmap-interview-osm-syria

#OpenStreetMap

mtmail4d ago
Terence Eden4d ago

🆕 blog! “How many consecutive hyphens can you have in a domain name?”

A seemingly simple question which sent me down into the murky depths of standards. How many consecutive hyphens can you have in a domain name? It probably isn't sensible to name your online presence a----------hyphen.com - but is there anything technically…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/06/how-many-consecutive-hyphens-can-you-have-in-a-domain-name/
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#dns #ICANN #IETF #internet #standards #web

How many consecutive hyphens can you have in a domain name?

A seemingly simple question which sent me down into the murky depths of standards. How many consecutive hyphens can you have in a domain name? It probably isn't sensible to name your online presence a----------hyphen.com - but is there anything technically stopping you? Table of ContentsHistoryTLD RestrictionsAnomaliesSo What? History Let's do some history! This is 1978's "HOST NAMES…

Terence Eden’s Blog
mtmailJun 4
Took me 2 years to find out my mouse has another button I never clicked. It didn't even know it existed. (the one on the left). And the new model has another 2 buttons. (via https://openlogi.org/en)
mtmailJun 4
Show threadGeomobJun 4

5/ Last but not least Ré Dubhthaigh presented his personal project charting the evolution of Dublin's North Frederick and Hardwicke Streets over the centuries.

#geomobDUB