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OSMLondon @osmlondon.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

For our next London OpenStreetMap social pub meet-up. Come join us in the Blue Posts, Newman St on Wed 23rd from 7pm: wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/London#…

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OSMLondon @osmlondon.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

Our next OpenStreetMap social pub meet-up is TOMORROW night! (Tues) Join us in Victoria/Westminster area at The Albert pub from 7pm! wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/London#…

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

For a couple of years now Owen Boswarva, @owenboswarva.bsky.social, has been patiently asking local councils for their address data with permission re-use as open data, sharing the results. Now Ordnance Survey & GeoPlace have slapped him with a cease & desist: www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

owenboswarva.com

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Gah! "Buchberger Bases" sounds much better than "Gröbner bases". chalkdustmagazine.com/features/unlo…

Image a caption screenshotted from the article. The image is a photo of a mathematician. The caption reads "Bruno Buchberger introduced Gröbner
bases in his 1965 PhD thesis and named them after his supervisor, Wolfgang Gröbner"

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I've been using Sociabli to cross-post from mastodon->bluesky (in the spirit of "can't really be arsed with bluesky, but I might change my mind"). But today they're shutting down 😞 You're about to recommend Bridgy Fed. *Everyone* recommends Bridgy Fed, but... as far as I can see it

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I'm voting #green. I wish my vote could be a clear signal to Labour, that they need to act on wealth inequality and engage with the wealth tax idea. In reality, tomorrow morning Farage will be celebrating and Labour will carry on pondering ways to be more right wing/racist as they fuddle

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

My son can get into our preferred secondary school if he can do well (and outrank other kids!) on an "11 plus Verbal Reasoning" test. It's an intense business. I'm now considering whether to spend lots of money on a tutor (£70 per session). It seems like he needs it, but maybe it's going

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

RE: ecoevo.social/@ReNatureLdn/11647259… Oh no. People dumping big pet snakes in London's parks, is a thing that happens quite often according to this 😮

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

@derickr D'you reckon we can see the Lyrid meteor shower tonight without leaving London?

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I organised tonight's @OSMLondon pub meet-up over a month in advance this time. Such organising. ....there's a tube strike today 😞

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Old tech advice needed: Our TV aerial signal started getting choppy a few months ago. At first I thought the co-axe connector at the back of the freeview box was a bit wobbly, and since we were due a replacement box anyway, I got a new freeview+ box. Annoyingly the TV signal is now even

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Love the attention to detail on some of these OpenStreetMap rendering style updates. Spot the difference. www.openstreetmap.org/user/imagico/…

Screenshot from the blog post about OpenStreetMap map rendering tweaks. The sentence "We are now also rendering turning circles and mini-roundabouts on unpaved roads with an unpaved pattern" ...is followed by a side by side "old" and "new" map rendering comparison showing a *very* subtle difference in the shade of grey around mini roundabouts.

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Signed up for London #Ruby User Group meet-up on Monday: lrug.org We have to get signed up by today because it's hosted in some ultra-secure facility this time.

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Well I don't know about lower-energy spin-triplet excitons, but I'm certainly excited that a molybdenum-based near-infrared light-emitting spin-flip emitter can serve as a triplet-selective energy acceptor from triplet states of tetracene-based dimers generated by singlet fission:

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

There's another "London Geo Meet-up" tonight. Can't attend myself unfortunately but last time it was fun. A small cosy gathering, so as well as the presentations there was plenty of chance to have a chat and get to know some interesting geo people. You can sign up for tonight here:

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Did a staff survey about carbon reduction "Any other suggestions to improve our organisation's sustainability?" I decided to put "Boycott AI" as a cheeky little act of resistance. In truth, the carbon efficiency of staff commutes (which the survey focussed on) will overshadow any influence

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rak @raksky.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Sky News' Katie Spencer reports: "Half a million people have rallied in London against the far right, the demonstration's organisers claim. The crowds came out for the Together Alliance event, which was framed as a stand against the "politics of division" 🔗 news.sky.com/story/half-a...

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Just popping down to Trafalgar Square with the kids www.togetheralliance.org.uk #together

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I'm trying to learn a bit of go (the programming language #golang ). It's strange doing this with AI around to help. As usual I did some tutorials, which is fine, but it never really sticks until I try to write my own code. So now I'm fixing a bug (on the codebase at work). Step 1? well...

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

We went up the new viewing chimney experience at Battersea Power Station today. The lift itself is quite impressive engineering.

View upwards from the top window of the left looking up through the Battersea power station chimney (which is now a lift shaft). It opens out in to daylight at the top, and has funky loops of neon lighting on the way up.

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

A new definition of "AI agent" to add to the mix: Dumb estate agent generates an AI image, but forgets to check for bathroom mirror zombies: www.reddit.com/r/Weird/comments/1r6…

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Wordle English #1733 — 2/6 🟨⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wordle.global/en?r=2 "Better than 95% of players" "At least" surely? Or did 1 in 20 people get it with their first word?

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

<rant>Just spent 20 minutes searching in different areas of the company SharePoint for a document which I'm was sure had a particular word in the filename. Gave up and eventually found a link to it by searching in teams chat and... it's right f&%ing there! In the first place I was

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@jsonsingh/11616716… I've signed up for "London Geo Meetup" tomorrow night. Json Singh has been floating his ideas for a new London map/geo event when we chatted to him at @OSMLondon and @geomob . And here it is! Looks like he's lined up an interesting

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Just noticing the images are broken on my little "keyboard letters" game for babies. Sorry babies! It's because I was cheekily deep linking from wikimedia commons, and it looks like they changed something (probably due to AI scraper traffic. *sigh*)

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

On many levels it's really pleasing to see Greens win the by-election today, but ...what does it mean for the next election?

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Just noticed the #sotmeu videos are all online now, so here's me talking about OpenStreetMap Notes!: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnRNidqzaHU Always a bit cringy watching myself back. Also YouTube does an auto-generated transcript which I was just using to count the word "Uh" appearing

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

"Ultimately, we're going to see the hipster purists who only write authentically hand-written, organic free-range code and the vibe-coders speeding off track, leaking all your data in the process. The rest of us are going to land somewhere in the middle"

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Can't help feeling the sentence here at the end of the section on "Boating on the lake" is bit... out of place? : www.dayoutwiththekids.co.uk/attract… Anyway, we went there, to Aldenham Country Park today. It's alright. Not much more exciting than

Photo of sheep inside a big farm shed, all sitting around on hay covered floor. Maybe they're all heavily pregnant at this time of year.

A farm isn't a farm unless it has a shed full of sheep.

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Been at a pub quiz. I'm terrible at these, but I knew a couple of questions: * A "byte" has 8 bits, but how many bits does a "nibble" have? (computer question! yay!) * Which city is the W.H.O. based in? (I knew this from my time on the board of @hotosm)

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Easy one today I solved today’s #Gisnep in 01:00. 🎉 No. 551 | 9 February 2026 gisnep.com

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

It's "World Number Day" #NumberDay This means last night was the annual panic evening of "Ah crap! We need to come up with fancy dress costume". Any parents on here know what I mean? The 10-year-old was reasonably happy scribbling the digits of π on an old T-Shirt.

White T-shirt with lots of digits being written out with black marker pen. In typical 10 year old style, the digits are *fairly* neat, but the lines are starting to go a bit wonky.

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

"Disrupting the World's Largest Residential Proxy Network" cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat… from Google Threat Intelligence Group. "a 'gray market' that thrives on deception—hijacking consumer bandwidth to provide cover

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Signed up for London #Ruby User Group. Five lightening talks tonight! : "Automating Feature Flag Cleanup with AI", "Why you might like some Truffle with your Ruby", "THE BLOB MUST DIE! – How we destroyed a 1400-line monster", "Junior Developers need your help", "Managing a job search

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

"NYC’s Urban Textscape - Analyzing All of the Words Found on NYC Streets" pudding.cool/2025/07/street-view

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I arranged a courier to collect a parcel and deliver it to me. First time I've done this. I used "ParcelHero" which seemed a bit sketchy. First I booked the wrong thing. Drop off at a shop instead of collection, so ended up booking and paying again. Then it told me collection is between 12

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The explanation of how our economy went wrong (neolibralism): www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xzzHIeGFrE When I hear it all described as a history like this, it's particularly depressing the way it starts around the time I was born.

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I like to copy photos off my phone onto my laptop. Apparently this isn't a normal thing to do nowadays. I know this because it's so unbelievably difficult to do! Easier on windows maybe, but persuading a MacBook to copy photos off a google pixel phone is an absolute shit show of different

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Souvenir from a Brazilian mercardo de artesenanato. The shopkeeper warned us it is strong spice. I said with a bottle like that I would expect so! We tried some just now. "Misericordia". I can confirm it's spicy, but it didn't cause too much misery.

A skull shaped glass bottle containing red spice liquid. It has a label on it saying "Misericordia"

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@iris_meredith/1158… Interesting discussion. What will AI coding look like after the commercial AI bubble bursts? It won't go away completely because open-weight local models are a thing. My prediction is that they will become a big thing.

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

We flew from Brazilian summer back to London today. Quite the temperature difference. To make it worse, I switched the heating off in the house while we were away, so now we're all wearing jumpers and coats waiting for the house to warm up. brrr 🥶 At times like this we could've done with

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

This stuff is called Farofa. Pronounced the way you'd expect (Far-off-ahh). Brazilians love it and serve it with every meal. My wife always keeps us in stock back in London too. It's like saw dust, but quite nice when you get used to it. Whenever my wife offers me some at the dinner table

Me smiling holding a small tub of yellow powder

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

At the beach! Here's me with a coconut. And here's me with a guy who looks like a Brazilian Steve Buscemi

Me drinking from a straw stuck in a big green coconut with a sunny beach busy with colourful chairs and umbrellas

Me getting a selfie with Brazilian Steve Buscemi

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

We've been getting around São Paulo (in all it's concrete complexity) using offline OpenStreetMap via @organicmaps . Never used it with android auto before. Very nice! #saopaulo

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Harry Wood @harry-wood.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Singing Karaoke songs such as "let it snow" in the sweltering heat. Celebrating Christmas in Brazil can be weird.

Photo of me with microphone in the party/BBQ room. Brazilian apartment blocks in the background.

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