A living framework for NGOs, civil society organizations, and mission-driven teams navigating AI adoption in software development.

A fast, free and open-source GIS in pure Rust for mapping, analyzing and sharing geospatial data, on the desktop and in the browser

10.11.0 The 10.11 release improves styling, raster data and OGC service support, and makes the library leaner to load. The highlights are Canvas styles now evaluate the color and array operators, ...

DuckDB Community Extensions Read OpenStreetMap data from OSM XML and PBF files

Tell me you don’t understand software without literally using those words!!!

The brain sandwich is a practical AI coding workflow: understand the problem, let an agent help, then verify and explain its work before sharing it.

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Pandas has taken us a long way, but it's time for a new bear

A better Hacker News reader for following stories, filtering noise, and keeping up with discussions.

Die bisherige Weltkarte stammt aus dem 16. Jahrhundert - und stellt Afrika deutlich zu klein dar. Daher hat die UN-Vollversammlung für eine neue Karte gestimmt, die das tatsächliche Größenverhältnis besser abbilden soll. Nur die USA waren dagegen.

If AI is so great, why are the only new tech giants GenAI companies?

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Rhein-Neckar OSM Treffen, 31st August 19:00 at DEZERNAT#16 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Ein Treffen für alle Interessierten zum Thema OpenStreetMap im Raum Rhein-Neckar. Wir treffen uns in…

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_Agentic_ : bash. _Function calling_ : RPC. _Agent handoff_ : a pipe. _MCP_ : CGI. _Skills_ : markdown. _Multi-agent orchestration_ : systemd. _Autonomous agent_ : cron. _Computer use_ : ssh. _System prompt_ : `.env`. _World model_ : `/etc`. _Context window_ : scrollback. _Short-term memory_ : Redis. _Long-term memory_ : Postgres. _Embeddings_ : grep. _Distillation_ : ripgrep. _Retrieval augmentation_ : `locate(1)`. _Cross-attention_ : a JOIN. _Chain of thought_ : `~/.bash_history`. _Summarisation_ : `git rebase -i`. _Speculative decoding_ : tab completion. _Symbolic reasoning_ : regex. _Code interpreter_ : awk. _Structured output_ : ASN.1. _Model card_ : a man page. _LoRA_ : patch. _Evals_ : CI. _Pelican on a bicycle_ : fizzbuzz. _Mixture of experts_ : HAProxy. _Hallucination_ : a 404 page served as a 200. _Refusal_ : `/dev/null`. _Reflection_ : `set -x`. _ReAct_ : retry with backoff and a print statement. _Recursive self-improvement_ : a fork bomb. _Interpretability_ : EXPLAIN ANALYZE. _Mechanistic interpretability_ : strace. _Guardrails_ : ulimit. _Jailbreak_ : sudo. _Prompt injection_ : LD_PRELOAD. _Off switch_ : SIGKILL. _Human in the loop_ : `[y/N]`.

Gram is an open source code editor with built-in support for many popular languages. Gram is an opinionated fork of the Zed code editor.

Explore how AI tools are transforming software development and the importance of maintaining Software Craftsmanship for quality and maintainability.

This is a blog I wrote on ButUncleBob (the Object Mentor blog) in 2006, republished here verbatim because that blog is not always available ...

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A lightweight, cloud-native GIS platform for visualizing, exploring, and analyzing geospatial data across desktop and web environments, with a responsive layout for mobile screens.

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You’ve almost certainly encountered Conventional Commits before. It may have reared its ugly head in the changelog of an open source project you’ve used. It may have been the enforced commit format for an open source project you contributed to. A lot of people swear by it. I swear at it. Even though it is used by a large number of popular open source projects, Conventional Commits is an actively bad standard which encourages focus on the wrong things and fails to deliver on its promises.

The Faros report on AI-assisted development has been rattling around in my head for a few days. The story it tells is a strange one: Teams a...

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