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Volker Mische

@vmx.cx
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Geo, offline/local first, decentralized web. Head of Geospatial at the IPFS Foundation. Making Noise github.com/pipedown/noise. Previously Protocol Labs, Couchbase. I'm bridged to ActivityPub via fed.brid.gy/bsky/vmx.cx

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 28/09/2026
Hello World from the PLC organization (plcred.org)! The org was soft-announced back in March at AtmosphereConf. We've been working through logistics step by step and now have a public web presence we can point to.
blog.plcred.org
First steps of the PLC organization
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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Its What3Words accounts filing day! They're doing so great. Nothing to worry about. I'm sure "the launch of our advertising revenue stream" will offset the "lost major Enterprise customer". Ads are really profitable now, right? find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/0843...
WHAT3WORDS LIMITED
GROUP STRATEGIC REPORT (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025

Financial key performance indicators

The Group's total loss for the year was £12,234,738 (2024: loss £10,644,836)
The increase in reported loss compared with the prior year was driven primarily by the fair value adjustment
relating to convertible loan notes recognised in 2024, which reduced the overall reported loss in that year.
Operating loss for the year was £12,828,534 (compared with £14,133,347 in 2024). The underlying operating
performance of the business remained focused on revenue growth, product investment and disciplined cost
management.

The group has continued to maintain a dynamic operating model, balancing investment in growth initiatives
across key markets with careful control of operating expenditure and cash runway.

At 31 December 2025, the group had net assets of £10,925,686 (2024: £15,659,513). Assets were
predominantly comprised of cash and cash equivalents totaling £6,493,450 (2024: £11,705,453) and term
deposits of £2,649,047 (2024: £5,948,370).
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Volker Mische @vmx.cx · 22/09/2026
Indeed. Here's the direct link to the blog post: isaaclyman.com/blog/posts/e...
isaaclyman.com
Four essential laws of programming • Minimum Viable Blog
There are two distinct kinds of software: Software as a tool is designed to make a given task faster, simpler, safer, cheaper, or more reliable. Software as a financial asset is designed grow the weal...
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Tobias Müller @tobilg.com · 21/09/2026
Introducing valhalla-wasm: Open Source routing with Valhalla and WebAssembly, bringing route computation to browsers and Node server environments github.com/tobilg/valha...
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GitHub - tobilg/valhalla-wasm: A WASM version of the Valhalla routing engine
A WASM version of the Valhalla routing engine. Contribute to tobilg/valhalla-wasm development by creating an account on GitHub.
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IFPS, not IPFS @ifps.tech · 15/09/2026
Kubo made a maintenance release (v.0.43.1): github.com/ipfs/kubo/re... It may also be the last one. As of now, with the closure of Shipyard, it looks like the project will be orphaned and without maintainers in two weeks.
github.com
Release v0.43.1 · ipfs/kubo
NoteThis release was brought to you by the Shipyard team. Importantv0.43 is the last Kubo by the Shipyard. Our IPFS work ends on September 30, 2026. Bring your support and transition questions to ...
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Volker Mische @vmx.cx · 12/09/2026
I haven't met anyone from Mapbox in years. It only takes a birthday party of a friend I also haven't met in years. It's good to hear that some of the early folks are still there.
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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh · 07/09/2026
Seeing a lot of dev-on-dev harassment has got me thinking about what open software development feels like nowadays.
notes.erlend.sh
Making software hurts now
and hurt people hurt people
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cee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026
throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky
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Volker Mische @vmx.cx · 04/09/2026
@implgeo.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy I read this an immediately thought of you www.reuters.com/world/africa...
reuters.com
UN approves resolution in support of map that shows Africa's true size
The United Nations on ‌Friday voted for a shift away from the 16th-century Mercator global map towards one more accurately reflecting countries' true size, a resolution sponsored by African states to ...
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OSGeo @osgeo.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
Ian Turton receives the 2026 Sol Katz Award We are honoured to announce that Ian Turton is the recipient of the 2026 Sol Katz Award (the 22nd year of the award), at the recent FOSS4G event in Hiroshima, Japan. www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/ian-t…
Ian is receiving the Sol Katz award from Tom Kralidis at Hiroshima
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Dale Harvey @daleharvey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I want to start categorising my photo library properly. Any recommendations for something that will scan my library, recognise all the same faces and let me give them a name? Trying digikam now and it is ... not good. Lightroom might take me 3 years to finish doing it manually at this rate
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Michael Kreil @michaelkreil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
So wird das nichts mit der digitalen Souveränität! Seit 2,5 Jahren kann die ARD nicht klären, wer für ein Open-Source-Projekt des eigenen Hauses zuständig ist. Ich trage jetzt als Externer die Verantwortung für eine Infrastruktur der ARD - und das in meiner Freizeit. versatiles.org/offener-brie...
versatiles.org
Offener Brief an die ARD
Michael Kreil über VersaTiles, fehlende Zuständigkeiten für digitale Infrastruktur und warum am 1. September 2026 Schluss mit der Förderung ist.
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 28/08/2026
My LLM cliché highlighter is up to 38 patterns now tools.simonwillison.net/llm-cliche-h...
Screenshot of a writing-analysis tool showing paragraphs of text with phrases highlighted in two shades of yellow, brown circular "3" badges, and a black tooltip overlaying the first line reading: "No X, no Y" chains · 3 "no" items. The visible text reads: We r[obscured by tooltip]nd up. No sign-ups, no downloads, no hassle (3) — just paste your text and start writing. Everything runs locally in your browser. The reviewer read the draft twice. Did not flinch, did not blink, did not reach for the red pen (3). That's the whole review, honestly. Don't call it a rewrite — call it a rescue. The improvement is real, and it's not subtle. That loss is worth naming. Sit with that for a moment. The gains were modest, but that's not nothing. You already know the answer, of course. Consistency is the entire game, and the punchline is that nobody wants to hear it. The entire pitch is one sentence long.
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Interplanetary Shipyard @ipshipyard.com · 24/08/2026
We have an update about the future of Shipyard that we wanted to share: ipshipyard.com/blog/2026-th...
ipshipyard.com
The end of IPFS at Shipyard
We have some difficult news to share with the IPFS and wider peer-to-peer community. Our IPFS funding was cancelled
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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🚀 I made a smol ~2kb syntax highlighter that uses the CSS `::highlight()` API. davatron5000.github.io/microlighter/
davatron5000.github.io
MicroLighter - A zero-dep syntax highlighter
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fry69 @fry69.dev · 15/07/2026
I can highly recommend this "How do LLMs work (with code examples)" video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmLp... It is extremely well-done, it touches all relevant details in an acceptable depth for an ~1 hour video. This also proves it is often worthwhile to produce a fresh textbook/explainer.
youtube.com
I Built an LLM From Scratch
YouTube video by Syntax
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Scooty @scottlanoue.com · 05/08/2026
Continuing down the path toward a fully independent phone... what about the actual phone part? 🎬 calling an atproto handle
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James Snell @jasnell.me · 21/06/2026
Could npm be rebuilt on atproto? www.jasnell.me/posts/what-i...
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What If npm Ran on AT Protocol?
A thought experiment about what a package registry would look like if built on atproto.
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Volker Mische @vmx.cx · 03/08/2026
A new release of serde_ipld_dagcbor is out. Major change is being strict on decoding. crates.io/crates/serde...
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crates.io: Rust Package Registry
crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects
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Volker Mische @vmx.cx · 03/08/2026
To everyone working on DAG-CBOR/DRISL implementations. There was a small update to that specs that shouldn't cause much problems, but is newsworthy: negative zero -0.0 is now forbidden. I recommend serializing it with the bytes from `0.0`. github.com/ipld/ipld/pu... github.com/darobin/dasl...
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fix: reject -0.0 by vmx · Pull Request #65 · ipld/serde_ipld_dagcbor
For IEEE 754 floats -0.0 is equal to 0.0. It makes sense to have only a single representation for the same numbers, hence always encode it as 0.0, i.e. 0x0000000000000000.
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Volker Mische @vmx.cx · 30/07/2026
I made an late night walk and suddenly memories from 18 years ago when I spent a year in Australia fleshed my mind. I wondered why, until I realized that it might be the humid 25°C at 10pm. #CutCopy #ThePresets #ThePotbelleez #Pendulum #TheGrates #BritishIndia
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Volker Mische @vmx.cx · 28/07/2026
Bi-directional transformation with lenses in the wild. This is so cool! I've been excited about those since 2012, but never found the time to build more then a rough not useful prototype github.com/vmx/jslens
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GitHub - vmx/jslens: Bidirectional transformation with lenses
Bidirectional transformation with lenses. Contribute to vmx/jslens development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Volker Mische @vmx.cx · 23/07/2026
Slides from today's IETF ATP WG meeting about floats: datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/126/... Main point: you want to be able to store arbitrary JSON as ATProto record? Let's do it and add floats in a straightforward way which almost all programming languages support out of the box.
datatracker.ietf.org
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badly drawn bee 🐝 @soapachu.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
perfect dead drop 10/10 no notes (the shrouds really make this)
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 19/02/2025
I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork} www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...
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How to use a histogram as a legend in {ggplot2} | Andrew Heiss
Land isn’t unemployed—people are. Here’s how to use R, {ggplot2}, {sf}, and {patchwork} to create a histogram legend in a choropleth map to better see the distribution of values.
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 21/07/2026
The 17yo has decided to read a book from every country. Any suggestions from you fine people on the internet? This sounds like a @globalvoices.org shaped thing 🩷
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OSGeo @osgeo.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026
OSGeo establishes a European legal foundation The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) has established a legal foundation in Europe. The founding documents were signed yesterday. The new entity, Stichting Open Source Geospatial, has its statutory seat in Wageningen and operates under the […]
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maxine ⎔ @mfzx.net · 20/07/2026
open discussion on the intersection of @atproto.com and @iroh.computer
discourse.atprotocol.community
Proposal: iroh-with-atp
I have published a draft proposal describing an interoperable method for binding atproto users to Iroh endpoints they can be reached from, for use in social P2P applications: This is an open reques...
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Gui Michel @guillaume.michel.id · 14/07/2026
🌍 What does it take to host a verified 3D globe? A static file server that answers GET and a single Range request. That's the entire contract. No gateway, no server-side logic, no trusted API. The browser simply checks every tile against a supplied CID. guillaumemichel.github.io/ipfs-pmtiles-demo/
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Verified PMTiles Globe with 3D Terrain
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Jan Lehnardt @janl.bsky.narrativ.es · 13/07/2026
“ @couchdb.bsky.social informed a lot of the concepts that have inspired us to design atproto” — @pfrazee.com , Bsky CTO at @localfirstconf.com
White man on stage on a dark room, presentation slide in the background: CouchDB almost had it right.
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Volker Mische @vmx.cx · 07/07/2026
You want to store (almost) arbitrary JSON as ATProto records? My floats proposal at mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/atp... would enable that. Join the mailing list and help making it come true.
mailarchive.ietf.org
[Atp] Float support in data model
Search IETF mail list archives
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FragDenStaat @fragdenstaat.de · 03/07/2026
Die Spitzen von CDU, CSU und SPD wollen das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz abschaffen – einen Grundpfeiler unserer Demokratie. 2025 haben wir den Angriff der Union aufs IFG gemeinsam abgewehrt. Das schaffen wir auch heute – unterzeichnet jetzt unsere WeAct-Petition! weact.campact.de/petitions/sp...
weact.campact.de
SPD, stoppt den Frontalangriff auf die Informationsfreiheit!
Wir alle haben das Recht auf staatliche Informationen. Seit 2006 müssen Behörden auf Antrag nach dem Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFG) Dokumente herausgeben – seien es Verträge, interne Weisungen oder...
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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Map of the Moon If It Had As Much Water As Earth Other planets: brilliantmaps.com/water-in-...
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Liz Climo @lizclimo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A hamster and hedgehog are slumped over. Hamster says “it’s so hot” hedgehog asks “do we know anyone with a pool?” Bottom panel, the friends are sitting in a fish bowl. Hamster says “thanks again for having us” fish replies “no problem”
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 30/06/2026
If you have a job or internship this coming August for a bright and independent 17yo (depicted on the right), let me know!
My kid cooking while the cat watches with interest.
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Volker Mische @vmx.cx · 29/06/2026
A new blog post is out. This time I try to provide some evidence that most programming languages already make a distinction between floats and integers when they work with JSON: vmx.cx/cgi-bin/blog... Supporting GitHub repo: github.com/vmx/json-flo...
vmx.cx
JSON, floats and native types | vmx - the blllog.
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Krieg und Freitag @kriegundfreitag.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Den Leuten, die behaupten, der Sommer sei schon immer so gewesen, ist vollkommen egal, ob es der Wahrheit entspricht, weil die Wahrheit insgesamt in ihrer Welt keine Rolle spielt. Ihnen geht es ausschließlich um Identität, Zugehörigkeit und Dominanz über den politischen Feind.
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Eurosky Sebastian @sebastian.eurosky.social · 17/06/2026
Interesting approach by the @ec.europa.eu to just ignore their own scientific service (JRC), which only 8w ago explicitly recommended to support @eurosky.social in this paper: publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repos…
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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Can gzip be a language model? by Nathan Barry "Turns out gzip can generate text that somewhat *resembles* Shakespeare." nathan.rs/posts/gzip-lm/
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Elena Rossini ⁂ @elenarossini.com · 17/06/2026
SCOOP: In early June the European Commission unveiled its Tech Sovereignty Plan, which emphasized their commitment to #OpenSource. Just recently, they migrated their main ATproto accounts to #WSocial, a for-profit network that has quietly gone closed-source. blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-pub...
blog.elenarossini.com
W Social, Public Institutions and the Theater of European Digital Sovereignty
European public institutions are betting big on digital sovereignty and open source software. And yet they recently moved their Bluesky accounts to W Social, a private, for profit network owned by Swe...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/06/2026
A step-by-step guide to drawing mice, from a 1913 book entitled What to Draw and How to Draw it. More drawing instruction from this book, plus a 1935 follow-up by the same author, here: publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/8196081...
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Iroh @iroh.computer · 15/06/2026
We just released the first stable version of iroh, v1.0! Read about it: www.iroh.computer/blog/v1 We're super proud of where we landed with iroh's 1.0. Since version 0.35 it feels like we've entirely replaced the "engine underneath". Are you a fellow key-dialer? Come tell us how you use iroh!
iroh.computer
Iroh 1.0 - Dial Keys, not IPs
Iroh 1.0 is out. Now is the time to build.
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Volker Mische @vmx.cx · 09/06/2026
@yala.degrowth.social.ap.brid.gy Hey, good to see you! Could you please also bridge your German account (or was I just not capable enough to find it)?
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Volker Mische @vmx.cx · 09/06/2026
Great post from @emily.space on why floats support on the ATProtocol level would be good thing for scientific data: discourse.atprotocol.community/t/floats-on-... If you want to see native floats support, please post your story there as well.
discourse.atprotocol.community
Floats on ATProto
Thanks again @vmx.cx for the proposal! Chiming in here as well to say that it would be great to see this, although I understand that there’s a long backlog of protocol-related things that need to happ...
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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Are you closer to London or Paris? See more maps like this: brilliantmaps.com/which-one...
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FOSSGIS Verein @fossgisev.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026
Stellenausschreibung im @FOSSGISeV für das Projekt OpenStreetMap Schulung. GESUCHT: Organisationstalent für OpenStreetMap Schulungen + Communityarbeit in Berlin oder auch remote. Die komplette Stellenausschreibung ist auf der Webseite zu finden […] [Original post on mastodon.online]
Bild: zeigt das OpenStreetMap-Logo (Lupe auf einer angedeuteten Landkarte in grüner Farbe), das Logo des FOSSGIS e.V. und das Logo der OSGeo in Form des Kompass.
Schriftzug: Wir spielen mit offenen Karten, Text: FOSSGIS e.V. sucht Organisationstalent für OpenStreetMap   Schulungen + Communityarbeit (m/w/d), Bewerbung bis 08. Juli 2026, per Mail an kontakt@fossgis.de, Infos unter https://fossgis.de/
Projekt gefördert durch DSEE, Deutsche Stiftung Engagement und Ehrenamt
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Nick Rempel @nrempel.com · 06/06/2026
I made an atproto dashboard to see what's going on on the network in realtime. Runs entirely in your browser. Take a look. What would you like to see? atproto.nrempel.com
atproto.nrempel.com
ATproto Command Center
Live wire-desk terminal for the ATproto firehose. Real-time velocity, collections, accounts, and content signals — computed entirely in your browser.
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Volker Mische @vmx.cx · 29/05/2026
I haven't used Matrix for a long time and lost my keys on the way somewhere. So if you see that `@vmx:mozilla.org` has a new identity, that's really true, it's me.
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