I never got around to doing an #introduction on mastodon, so hello from my own little corner of the fediverse powered by #microblogpub
I'm Daniel, a #map and #bike obsessed software engineer. I live in Richmond, Virginia #rva. I also enjoy #hiking, #backpacking, #skiing, and all things #outdoors.
FOR SALE $2,900 --> Larry vs Harry Bullitt "Pepper" (2020 model) - 2x10 Shimano Deore, TRP Slate T4 hydraulic brakes, Brooks Flyer saddle, Schwalbe Marathon tires, MKS Bear Trap pedals. Can deliver locally. #rvabike #cargobike
Our next meetup is this Wednesday at Basic City Brewing in Southside https://osmcal.org/event/2339/
#OpenStreetMap Standard Layer tile views for August 2023 - zoom 10 and above, 1 second = 15 hours
I missed this article on Lyft's bizarre admission that they bought Motivate (big city #bikeshare operator) to sell taxi rides to bikers.
"We haven't done the job we need to do to make sure that every time a person rides the bike, they get welcomed into the Lyft ecosystem, and frankly, welcomed into the rideshare side of things"
You know, exactly the opposite of why people use bikeshare.
BORN TOO WALK FORCED TOO DRIVE - HTTPS://DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
Computer keyboards should have a removable crumb tray, like a toaster.
Google’s widely-opposed ad platform, the “Privacy Sandbox,” has launched in Chrome, directly tracking users based on their browsing habits to sell to advertisers. *It is turned ON by default, and you have to explicitly opt out.*
If you still use Chrome, to disable Google's "advanced" ad tracking, go to Settings>Privacy and Security>Ad Privacy, then disable all three options there (Ad Topics, Site-suggested Ads, and Ad Measurement). See images or the animated GIF here: https://mastodon.social/@docpop/111020685168276797
The Overpass Ultra map style is now powered by the OSM Americana Community Vector Tile Server( https://tile.ourmap.us)! Thanks to all who made that project possible. #OpenStreetMap
So here's another reason to make Cary & Main into 2 way streets: Richmonders are too fucking dumb for 1 way streets. I just saw yet another person driving the wrong way down Cary St.
Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.
If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!
Donate at http://BlinkingGuy.com
Mozilla's new report on the data privacy of modern cars is nightmare fuel. Enshittification has definitely hit the car industry: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/
A lot of bike event stuff in #rva is shared on instagram, to such a degree that I didn't even question making an instagram account for a new ride. So here's your #fediverse invite to the Reasonable Morning Ride!
I created this ride because I was annoyed by all the morning rides in Richmond being at 5:45AM.
Follow on insta for updates: https://instagram.com/reasonable.morning.rides/
I just whipped up a little PWA to make my life on the #fediverse a bit easier: share2interact
. It's a web share target that forwards the shared link to your ActivityPub instance's Authorize/Lookup endpoint.
I built this because it's meaningless to follow hashtags from single-user ActivityPub instances(and impossible on old versions of mastodon and all versions of microblogpub), so I have an backup/lurking account at @dschep@mastodon.social to follow hashtags and browse on mobile via apps like megalodon.
This new little app allows me to more easily open toots & other ActivityPub objects (such as user profiles) from any Android app in another ActivityPub service in a browser.
Check it out at https://share2interact.glitch.me/
Sorry about the repeat posts about share2interact
, microblogpub was doing dumb things to the source code URL and it doesn't have an edit feature
Similar to my share2interact
PWA on Android, I use a simple bookmarklet on desktop to do the same, but it's specific to my own instance:
javascript=window.location='https://social.schep.me/admin/lookup?query='+window.location;
Updated Overpass Ultra yesterday to more easily integrate with custom styles. It will now automatically add the overpass source & layers to the style if there isn't a source named "OverpassAPI" in the style. This was done to facilitate using Overpass Ultra with @ohm
Find instructions with the full OHM overpass URL & style URL here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Historical_Map/Reuse#Overpass_Ultra
"Bicycles offer advantages in express delivery: they can bypass traffic + make up to 2x as many stops per hour as a truck. Total cost of ownership over lifetime is less than half of a van. And they generate 0 emissions."
—CEO of DHL Express
Did some experiments in finding secret/unmapped trails by using #OpenStreetMap as a sort of mask over the Strava heatmap
Being bilingual doesn't mean I'm perfectly fluent in two languages it means I often can only think of the word I want to use in the language I'm not using