getlon.lat
80 geocoding service plans to choose from.
I’m going to squirrel this one away for later—I’ve had to switch geocoding providers in the past, so I have a feeling that this could come in handy.
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Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
The cloud gives us collaboration, but old-fashioned apps give us ownership. Can’t we have the best of both worlds?
We would like both the convenient cross-device access and real-time collaboration provided by cloud apps, and also the personal ownership of your own data embodied by “old-fashioned” software.
This is a very in-depth look at the mindset and the challenges involved in building truly local-first software—something that Tantek has also been thinking about.
Emma Willard’s Maps of Time
The beautiful 19th century data visualisations of Emma Willard unfold in this immersive piece by Susan Schulten.
Slopes | Tinkersynth
Have fun with this little machine, tweaking the parameters for generating a Joy Division/Jocelyn Bell-Burnell data visualisation.
The interface is quite delightful!
CrUX.RUN
This is so useful! Get instant results from Google’s Chrome User Experience Report without having to wait (or pay) for BigQuery.
Here’s an example of my site’s metrics over the last few months, complete with nice charts.
The Map of Mathematics | Quanta Magazine
An absolutely gorgeous piece of hypermedia!
Data visualisations and interactive widgets enliven this maze of mathematics. Dig deep—you may just uncover the secret passages that join these concepts together.
Draw all roads in a city at once
A lovely little bit of urban cartography.
Adding Response Metadata to Cache API Explainer by Aaron Gustafson and Jungkee Song
This is a great proposal that would make the Cache API even more powerful by adding metadata to cached items, like when it was cached, how big it is, and how many times it’s been retrieved.
99 Good News Stories You Probably Didn’t Hear About in 2019
The goal in putting these stories together has never been to create a warm glow, or lull anyone into a false sense of complacency. The challenges facing the human family right now are big and scary and there’s no guarantee we will overcome them.
As millions of people have demonstrated in the past 12 months though, action is possible, better solutions are available and a better future can be built.
The Deep Sea
After showing us the size of space, here’s a fascinating intereactive visualisation of the ocean depths.
2019 Firefox Flashback
Here’s an end-of-year roundup of all the data that Mozilla have gathered through their Firefox browser—very impressive!
The New York City Subway Map as You’ve Never Seen It Before - The New York Times
The design history of the New York subway map.
Just enough Internet | doteveryone
The carbon cost of collecting and storing data no one can use is already a moral issue.
So before you add another field, let alone make a new service, can you be sure it will make enough of a difference to legitimise its impact on the planet?
HEAD - A free guide to `head` elements
A one-stop shop for all the metacrap you can put in the head of your HTML documents.
The Size of Space
Celestial objects ordered by size, covering a scale from one astronaut to the observable universe.
Data Patterns Catalogue
I really like the work that IF are doing to document patterns around handling data:
- Signing in to a service
- Giving and removing consent
- Giving access to data
- Getting access to data
- Understanding automated decisions
- Doing security checks
Each pattern has a description, advantages, limitations, and examples.
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog [EN]: More options to help websites preview their content on Google Search
Google’s pissing over HTML again, but for once, it’s not by making up rel values:
A new way to help limit which part of a page is eligible to be shown as a snippet is the “
data-nosnippet” HTML attribute onspan,div, andsectionelements.
This is a direct contradiction of how data-* attributes are intended to be used:
…these attributes are intended for use by the site’s own scripts, and are not a generic extension mechanism for publicly-usable metadata.
Manton Reece - Saying goodbye to Facebook cross-posting
Facebook and even Instagram are at odds with the principles of the open web.
Related: Aaron is playing whack-a-mole with Instagram because he provides a servie to let users export their own photographs to their own websites.
Southern Mosaic
A beautiful audio and visual history of the Lomax’s journey across:
On March 31 1939, when John and Ruby Lomax left their vacation home on Port Aransas, Texas, they already had some idea of what they would encounter on their three-month, 6,502 mile journey through the southern United States collecting folk songs.
To decarbonize we must decomputerize: why we need a Luddite revolution | Technology | The Guardian
Decomputerization doesn’t mean no computers. It means that not all spheres of life should be rendered into data and computed upon. Ubiquitous “smartness” largely serves to enrich and empower the few at the expense of the many, while inflicting ecological harm that will threaten the survival and flourishing of billions of people.