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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2026

anyone out there with experience with php-fpm? i have an ubuntu instance in the cloud, and php-fpm is working fine with several virtual sites but not with one, and i'm a bit baffled as to how the setup is wrong for the one site. #php #php8_3 #phpfpm

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

New #fountainpen day - this is the Conklin I grabbed from the last chance sale. given my experience with my Conklin 1898, I used the Waterman ink, because with Diamine Sargasso Sea, the 1898 was a gusher. This is a very similar writer to the 1898. real carbon fiber or imitation? I have no idea.

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OpenHistoricalMap @ohm.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Our official #VectorTiles have quietly made strides over the past few months. More grist for the historical maps you design. 🧵🪡

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

the closing scene from one of the most memorable films of 1980 seems quite apropos at this moment youtu.be/BRLsxkVSH8E?

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Public Execution!? suddenly i feel like i'm in a Charlie Stross "New Management" Novel. (@cstross)

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Ordered these and the height was just fine. They work in very shallow drawers. #fountainpen

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Air travel notes: 1) I don’t care much for the “new”, “improved” southwest experience 2) the Denver charging stations are a bit tired and only partly functional #airport #airtraval

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@ohm #recentism is hard to combat. as we succeed in bringing in more historical mappers, we are stuck with a situation that there is more easy recent data. my current focus is on transportation in the 1700s and 1800s in NY and MA and each incremental bit of data is challenging. much of the work […]

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

New #fountainpen day and bonus pen storage upgrade day. ensso minimalist XS in titanium (f nib) and put a Penn State Industries pen tray in my existing drawer unit.

ensso minimalist XS pocket pen in titanium

Penn State Industries pen tray for storage

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

@catbuttes there are some excellent less expensive pens. Work out your price point and I’m sure you’ll get good recommendations.

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

I was not previously familiar with Thomas Slim. This pen is well made and seemed well thought, a nice addition to my pocket pen inventory. #fountainpen

Thomas Slim stainless steel pocket #fountainpen

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Lamy included a converter, which I did not expect. They also missed a bet, the included ink cartridge contains Lamy blue when it could have been filled with Lamy Petrol #fountainpen

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

New #fountainpen day x 2 Having both arrive the same day was not planned. Lamy Studio (f) in Petrol, and a Thomas Slim Stainless Steel pocket pen from a kickstarter. Lamy is well made, writes like a Lamy. Slim has a Schmidt nib (f) and takes international short […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

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Jean-Marc Liotier @liotier.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Today at #SOTM2026, Grant Slater showed the receipts, and reiterated how LLM-driven scrapers are hammering the APIs #Openstreetmap offers free of cost - to the point of becoming an existential threat to the service. Authentication will be the inevitable first step for self-preservation.

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Iris Volk @funkvolk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2025

Tag war gut 😌

Meme, father asks: "Are ya winning, son?"
Son, sitting at the computer, answers: "I'm making 11 people laugh on mastodon"

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

I measured. The depth of the drawers they would need to fit is 5/8” #fountainpen

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

question for those with the Penn State #fountainpen trays that drop into drawers - what is the vertical height, and as a bonus, the depth of the individual pen spaces? assessing this as a potential drop in to the drawer unit i have now, but not sure if the fit will work or not. TIA.

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

@jef I could do a photo essay on sites out in the woods near me here in upstate NY

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

2/ the case is one of those dark comedy things, but also it means that the Troy and Sand Lake Turnpike Company was still a thing that existed and could be sued in 1889.

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

1/ establishing when something ended can be challenging. i know that the charter documents for the Troy and Sand Lake Turnpike are from 1816 - fairly late in the game for a new Turnpike. Noble Whitford's research on this turnpike peters out about 1833. but a quick search using the duck duck go […]

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

@Nonilex 2/ the one thing i'm quite sure about is that Capital One will have documented the hell out of this, and it will be very unfortunate for those involved if those records ever come out.

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

@Nonilex 1/ i was at one point a contract developer at BofA. despite the fact that i was no where near banking (either retail or wholesale), i was still required to take annual money laundering training - how to spot signs of it, and how to report it up the chain. i never knew what happened up […]

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

10/8 looks like I failed to photograph a page. I drive past Westfield regularly during the summer and autumn; will leave a little earlier on one of these trips to double check.

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

9/8 and of course, one more thing. a lot of the libraries are part of larger systems. if i want to look for books in libraries in Massachusetts, i can go to this link on the Berkshire Athenaeum website, and find copies throughout the state. it's how i found the copy of the Mohawk Trail book in […]

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

4/ research room tip. take pencils. they often don't like pens. i am combining that fact with my #fountainpen hobby by using the mechanical pencils from sets like my parker vacumatic pencil and my shaeffer compact pencil. i had not thought that i'd be using these, but here i am.

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

3/ but wait, there's more! the first set of folders appears from the listing to be potentially a manuscript of a book that was never published on the history of the turnpikes. knowing what's in Whitford's canal books, i feel like i really need to see what's in this box. my appointment is for the […]

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

2/ a search for his name in the online catalog turned up this box. the state had him collecting information on the turnpike era in New York, which started in the mid 1700s and ran to about 1901, which appears to me to be the point at which the most successful turnpikes finally wound up operation […]

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

1/ For my next historical research road trip... next wednesday i will be visiting the New York State Library Research room in order to review the contents of the linked box. Noble Whitford was an engineer with New York State in the first half of the 1900s. he is well known among Erie Canal […]

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

8/8 i will continue to preach this to folks doing historical mapping - offline resources, to be found in libraries, historical societies and the shelves and file cabinets of local historians contain lots of valuable resources, things you won't find online because nobody has ever scanned them […]

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

7/ this is the same trace overlaid on USGS LIDAR

trace of Rice's Road overlaid on USGS LIDAR

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

6/ i've started comparing some of Costello's conjectural routes to USGS LIDAR. in the case of Rice's Road (a very early route), he was close but obviously lacked modern tools. Rice's Road was still in use in the 1800s; it served as a Shunpike during the turnpike […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

JOSM map editor snippet showing Rice's Road overlaid on Costello maps.

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

5/ i took a bunch of pictures from varying distances; it looks like the full size panes are fine so i will probably go back and remove the smaller ones and replace them. i am seeing some differences between the 1999 Albany Road maps (Broderick, Cox, Gemmill) and the Costello maps; not sure where […]

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

4/ the Westfield library did not have suitable scanners or photocopy machines, so instead i took pictures with my phone and am working on uploading them to mapwarper and georeferencing them. so far it's going well. the mosaic of the various snippets is here […]

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Richard Welty @nfgusedautoparts.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

3/ i've been coming at it from the Albany Road perspective, as i live between Albany and the NY/MA state line. Costello was looking at it as the Mohawk Trail, and his atlas is focused on the Massachusetts segments, to the complete exclusion of all else. this was published in 1975. he used USGS […]

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