Introducing Overlap Atlas! Very similar to another little web app that I made a few weeks ago, making use of Android timeline data and Spotify data, I now have another little web app for visualizing overlaps of 2 peoples timeline data (or lack of overlaps). You can load one or more Google Timeline exports into the app and assign them to specific people.

I bought a set of 3 eero Pro 6 mesh (Wi-Fi 6) routers back at the end of 2023, and the first one of them died in the last few weeks. Trying to power the device via USBC no longer does anything, and eero support didn't have much to try other than the reset button and a new power adapter.

I'm about to head camping on Dartmoor, and wanted to go prepped with some of the various map related data that I will need. Basically, where to camp, and where not to camp... Searching around I managed to find this basic set of infomation Camping Map Dartmoor firing times The Military and Dartmoor - Information for walkers and riders, including firing range maps and flags…

Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that anyone can edit. It is a sister project of Wikipedia and serves as a central repository for structured data, so rather than paving pages with text, it stores data in a structured format that can be queried and reused across different platforms. One of the key features of Wikidata is its ability to handle deletion requests, which are known as RFDs (Requests for Deletion), a similar process happens on Wikipedia.

I've been a Spotify user for a long time, and like a lot of people I have Google Timeline enabled on my phone, quietly logging where I've been over the years. And at some point earlier this year I downloaded my Spotify listen data, and it occurred to me that Spotify plays + location information could be an interesting thing to look at...

Last month I wrote a history of AI agentic coding, from my perspective, which heavily leaned on GitHub Copilot. One of the things that I have really appreciated over the years was the packaged cost of Copilot in comparison to the apparent cost of using per token prices APIs directly, or even the other packaged deals. However at the end of this month…

With local AI agents increasingly writing and executing code autonomously, giving them unrestricted access to your machine is becoming a massive security risk. This is one of the primary reasons that agentic flows have so many flavors of approval that may need to happen throughout an agents course of action, though others include review points and being able to keep the agent on track.

I recently decided to run an experiment on wikibase.world: what happens when you give an AI agent the keys to a live MediaWiki instance and ask it to do some targetting gardening, including edits to Wikibase? Meet the Jules free tier, though i'm sure you could use any agent. Over the course of a few hours, I tasked Jules with editing…

Earlier this week, someone asked me if they were perhaps late to making use of AI-assisted development, as they dove into it in the past 2 months (using GitHub Copilot) and are already seeing large gains in a small team in terms of leverage of time. I thought for a second and responded that they might have seen comparably worthwhile gains roughly a year ago.

For one reason or another I have run into GitHub core API limits in the last few weeks, which has generally annoyed me, and leads to some workflows (such as using GitHub Copilot in an IDE) to be broken, even though such things seemingly have their own API limits and restrictions, they often rely on core to do some things...

As AI crawling and training continues to stress the web, the Wikimedia foundation continues to change various things in their edge rules and internal processes. Recently the Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 was likely one of the largest technical events organized after some of the new rate limits came into play, and it wasn't without issue at the event (though we got by).

Historically I'm terrible at post Hackathon write ups, though a few do exist... (#hackathon posts). For the past few days I have been attending the Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 in Arnhem NL with around 70 other people. Around 42 projects were shown at the showcase, and I want to briefly look at some of those, and also document some of the other things that were going on in my vicinity.

If you are anything like me, you might have given Google Antigravity a go, as I did in a recent post, and decided that there is not yet any WSL support given the extension marketplace specifically says This extension is not compatible with Antigravity. However... it turns out that even if this is the case, the Remote-WSL: Connect to WSL…

Back in July 2025 I did a little comparison of various AI code assistants with a small Golang kata (with some content stripped out), and I'm back for a second attempt using the same kata, but focusing on some of the newer Copilot models, as well as cloud agents, and a run through with Google Antigravity. All runs have been screen recorded, very generic time metrics extracted, and the code is also all up in branches in the code repo if you are curious...

It's been a long old while since I have written a travel related post, most recently would be my "digital nomad" boat experience for a year, and before that probably a very specific post on travelling from Santa Elena (Monteverde, Costa Rica) to Granada (Nicaragua) which was quite popular. I now know someone that Is about to head to Tromsø, Norway, and I was about to start writing up a private Google doc to share with what we did, how we did it, what it cost and some thoughts, but let's turn it into a blog post instead!

Well, I'm still not back on a boat as I was in 2023... Where to start... Lightbug I havn't written a whole lot about Lightbug yet on this blog, but its still been a fun year of new developments at, and I think it's time to share some of them with pictures 😉 We released small handheld RTK device, with programmable ESP32 onboard, giving high precision accuracy, in a nice small package.

As a long time editor and developer in the Wikipedia and Wikimedia space, I'm of course sceptical about what Grokipedia is trying to be, and if it stands any chance of success. it may struggle to deliver the resilience, transparency, and community processes that keep projects like Wikipedia thriving, and in the early weeks the untouchable AI generated content was certainly not going to work moving forward.

At the start of this year, I spent some time visualizing the Wikibase ecosystem by making use of the data that has been collected on wikibase.world. As part of that, I tried to focus in on Wikibase Suite, trying to determine how many possible installations there were making use of the container images, and or the newer Wikibase Suite Deploy…

Another year, another map, and another Birthday for Wikidata. Last generated in 2024 by @tarrow and @outdooracorn, this year I have put the work in just ahead of the 13th Wikidata birthday to have a look at what's changed in terms of items with coordinates this past year on Wikidata. And here it is! But really you need to look at the diff between previous years to see what has changed!

Earlier today, I sent this absolutely perfectly crafted piece of slop into GitHub Copilot... Right, but i want thje patche sot be / and /* always And as I already expected, due to using these LLM based coding agents and assistants continually throughout their evolution, the resulting change was exactly what I wanted, despite the poor instructions. Now, I'm sure there is actually some difference, and likely this depends on the relevance of the typoed areas, and how often such typos might also appear in training data.

Wikimedia Commons now uses Structured Data on Commons (SDC) to make media information multilingual and machine-readable. A core part of SDC is the ‘depicts’ statement (P180), which iden…

If you’re reading this, and thinking about trying an IDE integrated coding agent, or thinking about switching, maybe stick around, have a read and watch some of the videos. There is at least …

While developing on ESP32 boards at Lightbug on some of our newer products, I have repeatedly wanted to run Toit and Jaguar without WiFi enabled during a development setting. Either to have WiFi off to keep power consumption lower, turn off the default network so that I can make use of a secondary network or set up my own hotspot, and most recently, so that I can quickly iterate while using…

I wrote the first version of WikiCrowd back in 2022 and haven't really iterated on it much since, beyond adding the odd new set of image categories, and removing features that I decided were not optimum. At the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon however, WikiCrowd came up as both an entertaining little game to show people during beers, and also a project similar (ish) to something…

There has been some recent chat once again on the Wikibase telegram groups around importing, and the best approach to import a large amount of data into a Wikibase instance. 2 years ago I started a little GitHub project aimed at profiling the speed of loading using the action API, and various settings, DB versions etc, as well as trying out a bulk load API.

On the morning of 22nd March 2025 I received and read an email from Google giving me an "update" on my "Google Maps Timeline", little did I know this was actually telling me they had just lost some of my data... The email read... We briefly experienced a technical issue that caused the deletion of Timeline data for some people. We're reaching out as your account may have been impacted.

Do you often find yourself wanting to make a basic (or complex) web app that is client side only and will log users into Wikimedia sites with ease? Me to! I have been trying this every year or so, and it's gradually been getting easier. This year it only took me a couple of to get a really nice template web app setup using…

In October last year, I wrote a post starting to visualize the connections between Wikibases in the ecosystem that had been found and collected on wikibase.world thanks to my bot that I occasionall…

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