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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More 2024 Maps of the Year

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On New Year’s Day, I posted the Maps Mania round-up of the 2024 Year in Maps. I am not the only one who has spent time exploring the best maps of 2024. The Global Investigative Journalism Network’s Top 10 Data Journalism Projects of 2024  included maps from Hungary’s Atlo, Japan’s Nikkei, and Germany’s netzpolitik. Danube Warming Up Atló’s Danube Warming Up uses a Mapbox story-map Maps Mania… more →
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Even More Scrambled Maps

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Scrambled Maps In September I released a new daily map challenge called Scrambled Maps. TripGeo then enhanced my original game by introducing options to define the number of map tiles and to play with random cities. Scrambled Maps has since become TripGeo’s most popular game. For instance, just yesterday, it was played over 1,000 times by people across the globe.TripGeo’s Scrambled Maps has Maps Mania… more →
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Some More Maps of Sounds

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Yesterday Hacker News featured a thread on Sounds of the Forest, an interactive map of sound recordings made in forests around the world. Also linked in the Hacker News thread was the wonderful Radio Aporee, which, like Sounds of the Forest, has featured on Maps Mania before. Also mentioned in the thread were two interactive sound maps which I haven’t seen (or heard) before.Audiomapa Maps Mania… more →
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Google Gemini 1.5 Announced (and more new features)

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In general I don’t tend to blog about stuff that isn’t quite out yet, but as I’ve got early access (and permission to share), and as it’s pretty darn cool, I thought I’d share. Plus, some of the new stuff is available to everyone, so you can try it out as well! Today, Google introduced its newest language model, Gemini 1.5. You can, and probably should, read the marketing/nicely polished intro by Google here, but I thought I’d share some highlights and examples here. I’ve had access to this for a grand total of four hours so please consider this my first initial impressions. As the title says, this is not yet released, but you can sign up for the waitlist... more →
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More Medieval Murder Maps!

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On Saturday 2 Feb 1297 three Oxford University students decided to celebrate the festival of the purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary by going on a frenzied rampage. On the evening of the festival John de Skurf and his two friends Michael and Madoc ran through the streets of Oxford with swords, bows, and arrows “attacking all passers-by”. One John Metescharp was shot with an arrow by Maps Mania… more →
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The Campaign for More Winter Sun

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Today the residents of New York will see less than nine and a half hours of daylight. This lack of sunlight can lead to many people feeling SAD. Which is partly why every year there are calls to end the annual switch to standard time from daylight saving time, the result of which is that the sun sets even earlier every cold winter day. It is also why FiveThirtyEight  has asked the question Can Maps Mania… more →
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More Awesome Git Aliases

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In the last article in this series, Awesome Git Aliases, we took a look at some awesome aliases for Git. However, the true power of Git aliases comes from writing custom scripts. These allow you to build Git commands that can do anything you can imagine. In this article, I’ll show you how you can create script aliases with Git. We’re going to take a look at several awesome scripts you can use for Git that are super useful and will save you a bunch of time. Script Aliases We’ll be using Bash for our scripts. Bash is an ugly language, but it has the benefit of working almost anywhere. For your own scripts, you can use any scripting language you’d like. If you’re not... more →
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