Bart Louwers

Passionate Software Developer. Maintainer of @maplibre Native. #Cpp #TypeScript #UrbanMobility #FOSS #GIS #Maps #OSM #MapLibre

Bart Louwersbart@floss.social
2025-06-02

@mvexel I recognized that even from the out of focus preview. Delft is nice!

Bart Louwersbart@floss.social
2025-06-01

My sister ditched #Telegram because she was receiving too much spam.

Turns out blocking messages from users that are not contacts is a paywalled feature. Remember when Telegram was great? Pepperidge farm remembers.

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2025-05-31
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2025-05-30
a screenshot of a post saying  "Introducing VibeCon - The world’s largest vibe coding conference. Make sure you register today : http://127.0.0.1:8080/register"
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Applications are now open for the OSM US Public Service Scholarship to State of the Map US in Boston! Thanks to all the individuals who donated so far, we've raised enough to invite 4 scholars to Boston. Donations are still being accepted, and applications will be awarded on a rolling basis.

Learn more: openstreetmap.us/news/2025/05/

#SOTMUS #publicservice #OpenStreetMap #scholarship #opendata #geo

State of the Map US Public Service scholarship information
Bart Louwersbart@floss.social
2025-05-28

@hazz223 In my (uninformed) opinion data is only a very small part of a usable search engine. Consider me skeptical of the bottom up approach they are taking, that almost never results in good user-facing products.

Bart Louwersbart@floss.social
2025-05-28

@hazz223 I see a lot of graphs and diagrams and papers. I did not find a search engine.

Bart Louwersbart@floss.social
2025-05-27

@ianthetechie What's the kbit/s down/up and latency like on a plane these days?

Bart Louwersbart@floss.social
2025-05-27

@ianthetechie Dangerous words to live by in a bakery.

Bart Louwersbart@floss.social
2025-05-26

@acid I tell people: if I want kids, it is to have someone to play board games with, and people think I am joking.

Bart Louwersbart@floss.social
2025-05-26

Me: finds out #Linux has a plugin system called eBPF. **Upvotes** one issue in an eBPF library on GitHub that a documentation site is down.

Literally the same day, some recruiter: "I found your GitHub profile while exploring contributors to eBPF-related projects and was impressed by your experience."

😃😃😃

Bart Louwersbart@floss.social
2025-05-26

@acid Hard part's over.

Bart Louwersbart@floss.social
2025-05-25

@ianthetechie @richlv Totally missed your other posts, the Czech wine got me.

Enjoy your time there! Really want to go back some day, loved it.

Bart Louwersbart@floss.social
2025-05-25

@ianthetechie Czech Republic?

Bart Louwersbart@floss.social
2025-05-25

@ianthetechie Getting European vibes from this picture.

Bart Louwersbart@floss.social
2025-05-21

@danielgibert Ah yes, Europe.

Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals around the world
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State of the Mapsotm@en.osm.town
2025-05-21

CALL FOR PROPOSALS_DRAFT_FINAL_FINAL1_05212025

Are you sure it's the final_final draft? 🥹 No ⌛time to lose! JUST SUBMIT IT! 🫡

This is your last call! There will be no Deadline_extended1_extended2 😤

Looking forward to your draft_proposal_final submissions! 😎‼👇💍

2025.stateofthemap.org/calls/g

#SotM2025 #sotm #openstreetmap #stateofthemap #stateofthemap2025 #conference #callforparticipation #conferencepaper

Sotm cfp
Bart Louwersbart@floss.social
2025-05-20

@zverik I just hear “OAuth” and “half a day” and am impressed.

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2025-05-18

good god Lisbon airport is very active on GitHub

The wall of one of the stairwells of Lisbon airport, the wall has tiles on it that look like the green "commits per day" tiles you would see on github, with various shades of green and white
Bart Louwersbart@floss.social
2025-05-15

@rauschma It is more popular than ever if TIOBE is to be believed.

C++ language ranking: most popular in April 2025

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