Sorry, you’re saying people shouldn’t be allowed to write about their career changes on (checks notes) their own blog?

You said that.

This was announced on X [0] and Bluesky [1] (First post) with that intention.

He knows he would get more reach on those platforms than here.

[0] https://x.com/rocallahan/status/2103368176369324093

[1] https://bsky.app/profile/rocallahan.bsky.social/post/3mwd4u5...

I had a brief chat with the dev at State of the Map (the OSM conference) a few weeks ago. I think he'd appreciate some help, maybe even a co-maintainer.

Any more you can share? Is he actively doing a search? I didn't see anything about it in the repo.

My 10-year old loved it. I'd shown him a few Road Runner cartoons on YouTube beforehand.

> The OpenStreetMap community operates under the “on the ground” principle, recording what is actually currently used in a particular area, giving pre­eminence to data collected in­ situ.

https://osmfoundation.org/w/images/d/d8/DisputedTerritoriesI...

> No one stopped to question whether a shapefile of points of park benches could even be copyrightable in the first place.

Lots of people did, in fact, consider this.

Ah, the irony of posting "Your Mac is slowing you down" on the bloated JS hellsite that is X. That page took 10s to appear on my machine (before even thinking of rendering the video) whereas the HN front page is <1s.

That’s right, you should do the conventional thing by using gmail, and then you’ll never encounter any difficulties because Google never make capricious decisions like (checks notes) blocking access from certain paying customers using a half-arsed regex.

I worked for a public sector organisation around then that had the same chairman (not CEO) as Iceland, sorry, “the Big Food Group”. He was genuinely one of the most obnoxious, bullying people I’ve ever encountered - known internally as the Poison Dwarf. So none of this greatly surprises me.

I remember seeing a river cruiser called "Sir Osis of the River"

I edited a boating magazine (inland waterways, not sea-going) and we got article submissions like this all the time.

I ended up putting in our 'Notes for Contributors' something like "Write about what will be interesting to the _reader_, not what is interesting to you" because apparently this eluded people.