Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭

digital crafter (coder/developer, cartographer, graphic designer, tech writer) ▪︎ open data/knowledge advocate (mainly OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia—especially Wikidata) ▪︎ member of the OpenStreetMap Foundation and the Wiki Society of the Philippines ▪︎ Panandâ app creator ▪︎ Oxfordian commaist ▪︎ he/him 🏳️‍🌈

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2026-04-01 22:40:20 UTC

🚀 LFG #Artemis2!

2026-03-03 01:36:45 UTC

Let’s normalize #LaborUnions in every industry! If Hollywood actors have SAG-AFTRA and NHL players have the NHLPA, why shouldn’t tech workers?
https://wikiworkersunited.org
#Wikipedia #Wikimedia #TradeUnions #Solidarity

2025-04-03 01:22:47 UTC

There article mentions "AI griefbot" and I guess it's the most apt label we can have for these Black Mirror digital doppelgangers.
https://www.businessinsider.com/i-created-digital-twin-of-my-mom-with-ai-eternos-2025-3
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI

2025-02-28 16:16:57 UTC

I can’t remember the last time I used #Skype.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7vxlrvxyeo
#MicrosoftTeams

2025-02-28 09:24:20 UTC

This brand new song by #CynthiaErivo absolutely smashes! 🎶
https://youtu.be/0GpFGJqx7BI
#music #songs

2025-02-26 18:53:17 UTC

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@nprofile…r558 thank you! This is a custom map rendering where I have an HTML5/JavaScript app using the D3 library running in a browser and generating an SVG image.
You can see a very similar map I did for last year's #30DayMapChallenge that uses a lot of the same code: https://30dmc.sector4f.com/map/2024-11-14/

2025-02-25 13:23:08 UTC

Here’s an interactive map of the 2022 Philippine presidential election:
https://right-fennel-5fb.notion.site/Mapping-the-Nation-18f0dc7b1ca98093adf2c1405c961b00
#phpol #elections

2025-02-24 10:31:03 UTC

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Cityscape photo credits:
New York: subherwal, CC BY 2.0
https://www.flickr.com/photos/subherwal/40324359112/
Tokyo: Morio, CC BY-SA 3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skyscrapers_of_Shinjuku_2009_January.jpg
Rio de Janeiro: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:00_1031_Brasilien,_Rio_de_Janeiro.jpg
Cape Town: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ciudad_del_Cabo_desde_Cabeza_de_Le%C3%B3n,_Sud%C3%A1frica,_2018-07-22,_DD_34.jpg

2025-02-24 09:55:30 UTC

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One the tedious parts of mapmaking is labeling!
Anyway for this next preview of my 1600s Dutch-style map, I’ve differentiated the colors of the continents, added way more labels, and added cityscapes of New York, Tokyo, Rio, and Cape Town. It’s looking pretty good, I think. ❤️🗺️
#maps #cartography #gischat
https://cdn.masto.host/enosmtown/media_attachments/files/114/058/249/005/675/489/original/fcc25dfc22126e58.webp

2025-02-23 06:17:22 UTC

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I’ve now updated the map to add major rivers, some land shading, and several ocean labels (in Latin!).
#maps #cartography #gischat
https://cdn.masto.host/enosmtown/media_attachments/files/114/051/725/295/729/904/original/c8807b178bf9bd98.webp

2025-02-22 17:43:03 UTC

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You could argue that Pope John XXIII is the 23rd in a really long list, but you could also argue that they were all named after the first Pope John. 🤷‍♂️

2025-02-22 17:23:13 UTC

I got curious to see what’s the longest named-after chain recorded in @nprofile…jvpm and I found the following non-fictional list of 8 items using #WDQS:
1. USS Indianapolis (American ship)
2. Indianapolis (capital of the U.S. state of Indiana)
3. Indiana (state in the United States)
4. Indiana Territory (former territory of the United States)
5. American Indians (indigenous people)
6. Indians (citizens of India)
7. India (country in Asia)
8. Indus River (river in Asia)
#Wikidata #etymology

2025-02-22 14:39:08 UTC

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The vintage look I’m sort of aiming for are these two Dutch world maps:
1: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wereldkaart_met_een_allegorie_op_de_vier_elementen_Nova_totius_terrarum_orbis_tabula_(titel_op_object),_RP-P-1891-A-16621.jpg
2: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca._1690_world_map_-_Orbis_Terrarum_Nova_et_Accurata_Tabula.jpg

2025-02-22 14:27:47 UTC

I’m trying to digitally recreate a vintage style world map with two hemispheres (Old World and New World) and polar regions where the world is as it is known by Europeans as of 1700. (So Abel Tasman had already seen the western coast of New Zealand and the southern tip of Tasmania.)
Next, I’ll add labels, but anachronistically using current names. (Nope, never “Gulf of America”.)
Data source: #NaturalEarth; rendering: HTML/SVG + #D3js
https://cdn.masto.host/enosmtown/media_attachments/files/114/047/963/527/975/432/original/4a03e3b2de940b89.webp

2025-02-21 12:51:15 UTC

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Oh, wow! @nprofile…q8t6 decided that my article is reliable enough to be used as a #Wikipedia source! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/1276868792
This isn’t the first time something I wrote became a citation—I can spot 5 citations to 2 of my blogs—but this is the first time something I wrote for mainstream media made it onto Wikiedia.

2025-02-21 07:02:08 UTC

#MorePerfectUnion released a video on the recent state of the #cryptocurrency industry and it’s not looking good for the skeptics. (But, I’m chuffed that the video included @nprofile…eznj as a resource person!)
https://youtu.be/I4vi75U0F0k

2025-02-20 16:19:08 UTC

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And the sneak peek is already up on YouTube: https://youtu.be/rvvHJMWmD3Q 🤩

2025-02-20 16:18:11 UTC

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@nprofile…x0c3 If I’m not mistaken, OSM Inspector updates on a daily basis (basically aligned with the daily OSM dumps of @nprofile…lf92). If #JOSM says there are no gaps, then the route should work.
If you want, you can share links to your changeset(s) so others here can check it out.
#OpenStreetMap

2025-02-20 15:41:15 UTC

*squeal*
The first ~10 minutes of season 3 of #TheWheelOfTime is already up on Prime Video! 👀
#WheelOfTime #WoTOnPrime #TV #fantasy

2025-02-20 15:11:12 UTC

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@nprofile…x0c3 Which tool is saying there are issues? Maybe they haven’t seen the updated data yet?

2025-02-20 06:40:26 UTC

So, should we be calling it TFC instead? 😂
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kfc-moving-headquarters-from-kentucky-to-texas/
#KFC

2025-02-20 04:09:05 UTC

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I didn’t know this ahead of time, but my first ever article for PhilSTAR Tech was selected for today’s print edition! 🎉
https://cdn.masto.host/enosmtown/media_attachments/files/114/034/236/700/105/185/original/74f1491f27d6faf4.jpg

2025-02-20 04:01:26 UTC

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@nprofile…ft4y I spot my username! 😹

2025-02-18 11:48:22 UTC

I guess this means that I can now add mass media writer to my resumé?
Here is my first article for PhilSTAR Tech, the technology section of the Philippine Star, and it is about #GoogleMaps renaming the #GulfOfMexico to the “Gulf of America”. Thanks @nprofile…ncxg for the invitation!
https://philstartech.com/news/features/2025/02/18/10495/what-is-a-gulfs-name-it-depends-on-where-you-are/
#PhilStarTech #PhilippineStar #PhilStar

2025-02-18 10:23:46 UTC

Among the endless lists of to-do items that I want to do in #OpenStreetMap is this set of 1600+ named #islands 🏝️ in the #Philippines 🇵🇭 that may need matching with #Wikidata items.
Both OSM and Wikidata have data on PH islands ultimately sourced from GNS. In Wikidata’s case, intermediately via Geonames and Cebuano Wikipedia.
I had already matched up almost all the islands in Mindoro and have started in Palawan. I guess I’ll pick up this chore again.
https://cdn.masto.host/enosmtown/media_attachments/files/114/024/362/521/049/762/original/53a22deb37fd1f68.png

2025-02-18 06:54:35 UTC

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@nprofile…fuhf the WaPo Universe shorts on YouTube is my go-to bite-sized US news in comedy form.

2025-02-16 21:25:43 UTC

I wonder, are there people like #Prague’s Janek Rubeš aka the Honest Guide but for other cities in Europe? His YouTube channel is very successful and I imagine his style of content can easily be adopted across the continent.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt7oj318jVQi7vRbc1bNjJA

2025-02-16 09:30:13 UTC

It’s a clever marketing move for #MapQuest to have a Gulf of N generator!
https://gulfof.mapquest.com/
#GulfOfMexico #maps #cartography #gischat
https://cdn.masto.host/enosmtown/media_attachments/files/114/012/858/722/000/546/original/6543de4c7a59a07c.png

2025-02-16 03:28:56 UTC

Worst president ever.
https://cdn.masto.host/enosmtown/media_attachments/files/114/011/432/843/860/908/original/109d1720cec9b97f.jpg

2025-02-15 17:11:14 UTC

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The website has a number of hilarious gems. First is this message at the bottom: “If you have any comments about our WEB page, you can write us at the address shown above. However, due to the limited number of personnel in our corporate office, we are unable to provide a direct response.”
Second, the copyright line says, “© 1978-2024”, implying that the website has existed since 1978.
Third, it still uses HTML tables for layout.

2025-02-15 17:06:12 UTC

#TIL that the website of #BerkshireHathaway—#WarrenBuffett’s conglomerate with assets over a trillion dollars—has a website that apparently never left the 1990s.
https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/

2025-02-14 04:47:09 UTC

There was some uproar when the #AI in Apple’s #iOS notifications feature summarized news inaccurately. It turns out that this happens with the big #LLMs: #ChatGPT, #Copilot, #Gemini, and #PerplexityAI. The #BBC didn’t test #DeepSeek, but I’m willing to bet that it doesn’t work correctly too.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0m17d8827ko
#GenerativeAI #Apple

2025-02-13 16:33:50 UTC

I am not part of the #BookTube community, but even I got caught up a bit in the bombshell news where Naomi King accused popular Youtuber Daniel Greene of sexual assault: https://youtu.be/ASgwqjjmkOQ
Daniel responded by denying the accusation, saying that the sex was consensual, and that he would sue Naomi: https://youtu.be/6BhPv-NDcPI
This sadly echoes the Neil Gaiman situation. 😞
I don’t subscribe to either but I have watched a lot of Daniel’s reviews of #TheWheelOfTime episodes.

2025-02-13 14:32:30 UTC

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@nprofile…xc6x is actually the second Wikimedia-based project to be declared a Digital Public Good. The first one is @nprofile…0sk8 which is built on top of @nprofile…jvpm.
#Wikipedia #Wikidata #Wikimedia

2025-02-13 14:10:25 UTC

@nprofile…xc6x has been added to the Registry of Digital Public Goods which is maintained by the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA).
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/02/12/wikipedia-recognized-as-a-digital-public-good/
#Wikipedia #DigitalPublicGoods

2025-02-12 14:28:16 UTC

@nprofile…c2zv (the author of The Fault in Our Stars) recently wrote a non-fiction book about #tuberculosis and he is alarmed at the attack of the U.S. government against #USAID because USAID is possibly the largest sponsor of the distribution of TB meds throughout the world.
https://youtu.be/PBjQgizWRBA

2025-02-12 07:01:04 UTC

I was hoping we would get beautiful character posters for the third season of #TheWheelOfTime similar to what we got from the second season, but this official poster is beautiful! 🤩 Can’t wait for the official trailer that would drop in several hours.
#WheelOfTime #WoTOnPrime #fantasy #television
https://cdn.masto.host/enosmtown/media_attachments/files/113/989/595/099/058/673/original/428d8d88faff6640.jpg

2025-02-11 07:26:56 UTC

#TuneTuesday (Feb 11)
If you know #ThePianoGuys, you know this American music group produces original and cover instrumental music for the piano and cello.
So when they released their first vocal song, “It’s Gonna Be Okay”, it was a pleasant surprise! The song is infectiously joyful and it’s a pick-me-upper if you’re feeling down.
https://youtu.be/5pBjopDymts
#music #songs #earworms

2025-02-10 09:41:54 UTC

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@nprofile…fuhf I didn't want to deal with semantics on what is and isn't an island so I just went with the "conventional" taxonomy.
Also: xkcd 2838 https://xkcd.com/2838/

2025-02-10 07:45:30 UTC

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P.S. The image in the previous post is almost a graphical representation of the list I posted last year: https://en.osm.town/@seav/112692283471409603

2025-02-10 06:01:31 UTC

Despite living in an archipelagic country, I still haven’t stepped foot on a lot of islands. 🏝️ Maybe Bohol, Palawan, or Taiwan could be next?
(This poster concept is an alternative take on those travel lists/maps where you list islands/continents instead of countries.)
#islands #maps #cartography #gischat #OpenStreetMap #NaturalEarth #D3js
https://cdn.masto.host/enosmtown/media_attachments/files/113/978/039/932/030/977/original/7f18259fbf155232.webp

2025-02-07 23:23:39 UTC

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@nprofile…3nql unfortunately, ioki seems to have not renewed their membership after joining in January 2024: https://osmfoundation.org/w/index.php?diff=13350

2025-02-07 13:18:48 UTC

#ICYMI, one of the big #astronomy news in the past few weeks is newly-discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 having a non-zero chance of impacting the Earth in December 2032. The asteroid is currently ranked 3 on the Torino Impact Hazard Scale and the only asteroid right now having a non-zero scale value.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jan/30/asteroid-spotted-chance-colliding-with-earth-2032
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torino_scale
#asteroids #2024YR4

2025-01-24 11:12:21 UTC

I’m not commenting on the merits of the various Oscar nominations especially on the outrage against one film in particular, but of the 10 Best Picture nominees, I’ve already seen 3: Conclave, Dune: Part Two, and Wicked. Three is actually pretty average for me because a lot of the nominees get screening schedules in my country *after* getting nominated.
#movies #films #Oscars #Hollywood

2025-01-21 06:27:44 UTC

This is a really clever animated illustration of the position of the sun in the sky during the December solstice on a flat Earth vs. a globe Earth. It shows how a 24-hour sun in the Antarctic works as well.
https://youtu.be/HcctCQzTNow
The channel has other really nice videos as well if you’re curious to see more.
#FlatEarth

2024-11-01 09:25:46 UTC

#30DayMapChallenge 🗺️ Day 1️⃣: Points
I had fun doing last year’s challenge so here we go again!
For Day 1, I wanted to replicate the style from last year first day,¹ so here’s a map with the 4271 *points* of the #Philippines 🇵🇭, aka capes, promontories, or headlands, as recorded by #Wikidata.
This data actually originally came from the U.S. GEOnet Names Server, then infamously imported as bot-created Cebuano #Wikipedia articles, then became Wikidata items.
¹ https://en.osm.town/@seav/111335116974296246
https://cdn.masto.host/enosmtown/media_attachments/files/113/406/911/548/811/029/original/9d8a8a680d5eb69c.png

2024-10-10 21:44:27 UTC

I've played 1000 games of #Wordle nearly everyday since January 2022. I've missed playing a few times and didn't get the word within 6 guesses for 17 games.
https://cdn.masto.host/enosmtown/media_attachments/files/113/285/286/319/409/924/original/40f1340d320c23c5.png

2024-05-06 04:59:06 UTC

I’ve been watching a few travel vlog videos on YouTube and because of my #OpenStreetMap compulsive behavior, I’ve been using these videos as street-level imagery sources to update POIs on the map. 😅

2024-03-10 15:12:26 UTC

#TIL that Denis Villeneuve’s and Isaac Newton’s surnames have the same etymological meaning.
#etymology

2024-02-08 07:02:06 UTC

I very much agree with @npub154w…2v0q’s observation: @npub18y9…0kd3 uses a lot of @npub1jmp…4hcl data in their projects (heck, their offshoot company #Mapbox was built on OSM), but #DevelopmentSeed chose to become a Contributor Member of #OvertureMaps but notably *not* a corporate member of the #OpenStreetMap Foundation.
I am kinda tired of companies taking OSM for granted.

2024-01-11 08:48:33 UTC

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@npub13kp…68ay @npub1wcl…4j7x great idea to auto-detect if the diary writer has a Fedi account and then to mention that user here!

2023-11-28 16:40:16 UTC

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@npub102u…xgts clever! :)

2023-11-08 08:42:48 UTC

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@npub1sw8…xrh4 tagging @npub16l0…syup

2023-11-08 00:44:04 UTC

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@npub1uvz…xuud yup, many are amazing and inspiring!

2023-11-07 10:55:27 UTC

#30DayMapChallenge 🗺️ Day 7️⃣: Navigation
Decided to do something “simple” for today. Here is a map of all ferry routes ⛴️ in the #Philippines 🇵🇭 that have been mapped in #OpenStreetMap. Data has been extracted via #OverpassTurbo (data licensed under ODbL 1.0) and rendered via #Leaflet.
Since the Philippines is an archipelago, ferries and boats are important means of transportation especially since the thousands of small islands are too small to host airstrips.
#navigation #ferries #tootSEA @npub1fex…rgw0
https://cdn.masto.host/enosmtown/media_attachments/files/111/368/862/083/748/824/original/6ec517f9b7c48b20.png

2023-10-26 05:55:00 UTC

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@npub1pmu…2y6g it would be nice if #KartaView, #Mapillary, and @npub106a…xae6 could work on interoperability of uploaded images or at least make a tool so that it's easier to contribute the same photos to all services.

2023-10-06 01:22:34 UTC

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OK. So we already know that the ruby-hilted dagger is not what it is in the books. And Min’s vision of Mat and Rand might still come to fruition, but will we get the un-Healable wound(s) from the books this episode? 🤔
Nynaeve torturing Seta is so good, but I think non-book readers will be confused. The books had tons of pages to expound on how the a’dam work as the characters are studying it but the show is trying to cram everything into the precious few screen minutes.

2023-10-06 01:12:10 UTC

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D’oh! The mist is just a Whitecloak battle tactic! Why did I assume that there was a supernatural element to it? 😅
Also Nynaeve is rocking it as a pretend-sul’dam! I want to see Seta and Renna’s comeuppance soon!
Not Renna cutting Egwene’s braid?! 😱

2023-10-06 01:04:09 UTC

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Lanfear and Ishamael... so much to unpack here. Will Ishamael really die? In the books it took Rand three tries and in the cold open Lews says Ishamael wants to die the final death. Will we get Fares Fares in later seasons or will we get a new actor for Moridin?
Also the ominous shots of the remaining 6 seals. Will the other Forsaken finally be released this episode?

2023-10-06 00:58:56 UTC

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So we got another glimpse of Machin Shin in the Ways. But no Traveling? Boo!
We see Perrin with the Aiel wonder girls again. And now we’ve seen that mysterious mist again. (Cue Stephen King’s The Mist.) Also, will Hopper really stay or will he jump in the upcoming fray and get slain, like in the books?

2023-10-06 00:49:58 UTC

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Whitecloaks in Falme, setting a potential future book conflict between Perrin and Dain when Geofram inevitably vailantly dies. I wonder what Valda will do...
Natasha O’Keefe as Lanfear is such a delight to watch and her flexing her mastery of weaves to Moiraine is bad ass! But where did she put the Aes Sedai and Lan? Also, “raise the banner”? Might we see the Dragon Banner, finally? 🥺

2023-10-06 00:41:02 UTC

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Wait... After 7 episodes of getting a bare title card, we *now* get the gorgeous full intro?! I understand cutting these for the previous episodes to eke out some more screen time, but I guess now it’s as good as any for properly introducing the cast and crew.
But I’m a bit sad that this intro is the same. The genius of the Game of Thrones’s intros are how they differ from season to season and episode to episode depending on what happens.

2023-09-23 11:20:31 UTC

I just finished rereading The Gathering Storm, or Book 12 of The Wheel of Time, and after watching Episode 7 of the TV show and seeing the visceral interactions between Egwene and Renna, I’m reminded of this line from the book during the Seanchan raid at the White Tower:
“Each faceless Seanchan that Egwene struck down seemed to be Renna in her mind’s eye. [...]
This raid had to *cost* them.”
Hopefully the TV series will realize this long-term payoff seeded in Ep7.

2023-09-15 07:19:46 UTC

S2E5 of #TheWheelOfTime is delicious!
Lanfear! Barthanes! Tel’aran’rhiod! Aviendha! Falme! High Lord Turak!
#WheelOfTime #WoTOnPrime

2023-08-31 13:05:21 UTC

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@npub1yrl…xxs5 expecting a review!

2023-08-31 05:26:54 UTC

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@npub1nw8…dfyw @npub1lks…a4mq I could've sworn there was an XKCD comic about something like this but the closest I could find is #1895: https://www.xkcd.com/1895/

2023-08-30 04:42:58 UTC

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@npub132s…cg3n wow. You're a much more consistent mapper than me. My mapping flows and ebbs with time and sometimes I have had weeks with no edits and weeks where I edit daily.

2023-08-29 13:05:20 UTC

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@npub1dhy…nfph oops. I looked and saw that a couple of my small web maps still has the "{s}." URL template pattern. Will push commits soon. 😅

2023-08-25 12:40:27 UTC

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@npub1t9n…k9e7 if only you can deliver to my country, which is just south of Taiwan where you have your warehouse...

2023-08-25 11:42:16 UTC

I have lost count of the number of times I have seen that mug shot.

2023-08-25 11:24:06 UTC

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@npub1a8t…q95c happy anniversary!

2023-08-25 06:25:18 UTC

The recent English-only drama over on #Fosstodon just made me aware that my instance, en.osm.town, is ostensibly an English-primary instance (it's right there in the hostname!) and was created after the now-defunct French-language fr.osm.social instance but we welcome any language toots. And we have four moderators all speaking at least 6 languages among us. Then again, we are a pretty small instance.

2023-08-21 13:19:35 UTC

So I finally got to stay at an airport lounge for the first time (Plaza Premium Lounge at Changi Airport Terminal 1). My credit card has a promotional partnership with Priority Pass so I decided to avail 1 of my up to 4 free annual lounge visits to see what all the fuss is about.
Well, the buffet and seating was nice enough. But because the lounge was near full, it wasn't as relaxing as I expected. I think the airline-dedicated lounges might be a tad bit better.
#ChangiAirport #AirportLounges
https://cdn.masto.host/enosmtown/media_attachments/files/110/927/800/659/450/954/original/40ba3a3895752491.jpeg

2023-08-21 11:37:27 UTC

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@npub1lrk…tcuw maraming salamat!

2023-08-21 07:43:22 UTC

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@npub1a8t…q95c salamat! (My birthday is on a need-to-know basis. 😝)

2023-08-20 17:22:51 UTC

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@npub1fk2…rsrs thank you! 👋

2023-08-20 17:22:15 UTC

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@npub1rdz…ncry salamat!

2023-08-20 13:56:22 UTC

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@npub1hwr…hyzz yes. Same birth year too. 😅

2023-08-20 13:51:26 UTC

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@npub1hwr…hyzz arigatou gozaimasu!

2023-08-20 12:58:24 UTC

Feeling bemused.
Despite hiding my birthday on Facebook just so that I can avoid the deluge of online greetings (I'm kinda anti-social that way 😝), the two sets of friends that I met up here in Singapore still remembered! 🥰
https://cdn.masto.host/enosmtown/media_attachments/files/110/922/047/237/621/804/original/3bf2a66fcdf05e15.jpg
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2023-08-18 03:44:22 UTC

The @npub1xrj…9q43 is one of the most enduring partnerships that the Wikimedia movement has and IA's director, @npub1p8r…u0er, just gave an update of their work here in #Wikimania2023. One thing I learned today (#TIL) is that they also work on adding links to book citations in Wikipedia articles to their collection and not just web references (via the Wayback Machine). 🎉

2023-08-18 03:25:39 UTC

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@npub1r5z…pxpw thanks!

2023-08-17 19:56:37 UTC

Wikimaps people and mapping enthusiasts at #Wikimania2023!
With myself, @npub1uu9…uxfh, @npub14lp…f27l, @npub1y56…yuln, @npub1wt3…6g54
📷 Butch Bustria
#Wikimania #Wikimaps #OpenStreetMap
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2023-08-16 09:33:17 UTC

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@npub1lrk…tcuw salamat! 🥳

2023-08-16 09:32:18 UTC

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Streaming on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUpXDTylABQ

2023-08-16 09:17:50 UTC

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@npub1g3k…w4ug IKR? I haven't been to all Wikimanias but this is probably the biggest screen we have in any Wikimedia event ever.

2023-08-16 09:04:35 UTC

#Wikimania2023 opening ceremony is starting just about now! 🎉
#Wikimania #Wikipedia
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2023-08-15 14:53:49 UTC

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@npub1a8t…q95c what are you hacking on, BTW? Any Phabricator task URL handy?

2023-08-15 14:49:36 UTC

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@npub106w…cln7 right. 😅

2023-08-15 14:32:49 UTC

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@npub106w…cln7 I only noticed now that the #Philippines is the largest country to have none of its territory have any oceanic antipodes.

2023-08-15 14:17:26 UTC

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@npub1a8t…q95c yup, I stayed at the back during the ESEAP session. I'll be attending day 2 of the ESEAP session tomorrow.

2023-08-15 13:45:53 UTC

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@npub1a8t…q95c I was at the level 3 rooms too to attend some sessions. Just went up to the 4th floor at the end of the day to check out the plenary hall. 😉

2023-08-15 13:38:14 UTC

Day 0 of #Wikimania2023 is done!
The massive 6-foot-tall cardboard sculpture of the Wikipedia 'W' logo is pretty nifty. And the plenary hall is *massive*! 😮 I will be presenting here on Thursday and I'm already intimidated. 😱
#Wikimania #Wikipedia
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2023-08-13 21:14:10 UTC

I am off to #Wikimania2023!
P.S. This will be my fourth Wikimania after 2011 Haifa, 2013 Hong Kong, and 2014 London.
#Wikimania #Wikipedia #Wikidata #Singapore #tootSEA
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2023-08-08 12:53:51 UTC

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@npub1y0u…clh4 haven't seen Queen Charlotte yet but I agree that Jury Duty is awesome! I like its unique take on reality TV. 👍

2023-08-08 12:39:33 UTC

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@npub1hwr…hyzz @npub1ulr…jj0a hmmm, how is this supposed to be used compared to @npub1fex…rgw0 ?

2023-08-06 10:42:26 UTC

Rediscovering this gem from #Kygo and I'm struck at how I only really appreciate this song now as opposed to a few years ago when I first heard it.
https://youtu.be/zaIsVnmwdqg
I think Kygo produces the most similar music to the late #Avicii and this song in particular was sung by the same singer (Sandro Cavazza) as "Without You", one of my favorite Avicii songs.
I also like how "Happy Now" is thematically similar to Marshmello/Bastille's "Happier" which I also really love.
#EDM #music

2023-08-06 09:44:16 UTC

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@npub1kv8…fnd5 I enjoyed that movie too. But I do like dystopian sci-fi movies in general. 🙂

2023-08-05 12:06:23 UTC

I finished mapping all 10 barangays of the municipality of Panglao, Bohol, #Philippines 🇵🇭 in #OpenStreetMap, improving their #Wikidata items, and linking the two datasets with each other.
Wanna play around? Here is the Overpass Turbo query: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1ywY
And here is the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) query: https://w.wiki/7CBC
#OpenData #LinkedOpenData #Panglao #Bohol #barangays
Previously: https://en.osm.town/@seav/110712695608480737
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2023-08-04 14:58:15 UTC

I’m kinda amazed that one of the first websites that I ever visited (ca. 1996/1997), and one that gave me a glimpse at the power of having practically any information at my fingertips is still online.
https://fourmilab.ch/
#nostalgia