Donald Trump Surrenders the World to China

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The China Index is an interactive map that ranks the expanding influence of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) across the globe. Using 99 distinct indicators – from media sponsorships to academic partnerships – the index tracks Beijing’s deepening reach, updated annually to highlight its accelerating dominance.The map ranks countries around the world based on how much they are under the Maps Mania… more →
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Watch me suffer with React more in tomorrow’s Code Break!

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So my last Code Break was… painful. My experience trying to learn React did not go well. Because of that I thought strongly about giving up, but what fun would that be? Join me tomorrow (March 18th) at 12PM CST where I’ll, once again, try to learn some basic React features and get a trivial web site built. Will I make it? Probably not! But you can come join me and cheer/heckle me on! I hope to see you there: https://cfe.dev/talkshows/codebreak-03182025/ Raymond Camden… more →
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Free TV & Radio Maps

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tvgarden is an interactive map that brings the world of live television to your fingertips. Inspired by the long running success of Radio Garden (which allows users to explore global radio stations through an interactive 3D map,) tvgarden applies the same concept to television, offering a seamless and engaging way to watch live TV from around the world.Features and User ExperienceOne of Maps Mania… more →
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Creating Images with Generative AI via Conversation

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Last week, I blogged about updates to Google’s Gemini APIs in regards to image generation. That post detailed how there are now two models for generating images with the experimental Gemini Flash model having a nice free tier. One of the interesting features of the API is the ability to edit existing images, in other words, pass an image to Gemini and via a prompt, have Gemini update it. I thought it would be kind of fun to see if I could build a ‘chat’ interface for this model, one where you could simply talk to Gemini and have it work on your image along with you. Now to be clear, this is no different than what you can do now at the Gemini website, but I figured it would give... more →
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The 2025 Australian Election Map

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Yesterday, the Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, announced that the next Australian federal election will be held on May 3. The leader of the center-left Labor Party currently holds a very slim majority in Parliament. To achieve a majority government in the next Parliament, a party must win at least 76 seats out of 150 in the House of Representatives. If no party reaches this Maps Mania… more →
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BoxLang Quick Tips – Sending Email

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Welcome to another BoxLang Quick Tip! As with my other quick tips, I’ll end this blog post with a link to the video version so feel free to skip down to it, or read, or both if you prefer! Today’s quick tip is a look at how BoxLang supports sending email, and as with my previous tips, an additional module is all you need to do. The Mail module can be installed via the CLI like so: install-bx-module bx-mail. Once installed, you get three new components for your runtime: mail – This is the core component and handles all mail operations. You’ll always use this. It has quite a few options so be sure to check the docs, but in general you’ll provide the to, from, subject,... more →
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Geolocating a Folder of Images with Python

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I’m not sure how useful this will be, but as I recently built it in another language (I plan on blogging that soon as well), I thought I’d take a stab at building it in Python. Given a folder of images, can I use Python to grab the Exif information and then using that, figure out where the photos were taken using a reverse geocoding service? Here’s what I built. First – Get the Images Ok, the first step is simple, just get a list of images from a directory: INPUT = "./sources" files = os.listdir(INPUT) for file in files: print(file) Woot! I’m a Python Master! Get the Exif info For the next step, I knew I needed to get the Exif info. For that I used... more →
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The Fentanyl Supply Chain

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In How a New Drug Trafficking Landscape Fuels Violence in Latin America, the International Crisis Group (ICG) maps the supply chains transporting cocaine and fentanyl from Latin America to consumers in Europe and North America. The map reveals how decades of failed prohibitionist policies, shifting demand, and increasingly fragmented criminal networks have transformed drug trafficking into Maps Mania… more →
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