Bastian Greshake Tzovaras |

I regularly encounter questions along the lines of “how do we scale things up?

This is a slightly shortened cross-post of a blog post which I co-authored with Otto Richter and William Zijl for the Codeberg blog.

Last week, I had the pleasure of helping a bit with the delivery of a workshop on “open tools for the production and use of cartographic data” in Venado Tuerto, that Silvina Meritano organised as part of her role as community ambassador for the UN Mappers.

tl;dr: With panoramax.libre.net.ar we have set up the first (public) Panoramax instance in the Americas.

Despite it being a good two years since I’ve made vim my only text editor again, I hadn’t really gotten deeper into using more terminal (or text-base) user interface (TUI) for a while.

To mark the 50th anniversary of the military coup in Argentina, commemorative events, marches and protests took place across the country on Tuesday, March 24.

My dislike strong opposition to engaging with “AI” generated things, be that texts, images, code or anything else is well-documented.

During our trip down in Patagonia last week, we passed by many road signs, barriers at viewpoints, trash cans etc. that were sticker bombed by the many visitors that pass by.

At the end of February, I was privileged to spend a week in the Los Glaciares National Park down in Santa Cruz in Argentine Patagonia.

Over a long weekend, between February 14-16, the 19th Tricota Cultural took place in Villa Ani Mi, a small village just north of where I’m currently living.

This post is an adapted/expanded version of an abstract that I have submitted for a track on Open, collaborative and participatory science: rethinking knowledge legitimacy, policy and science futures at the EU-SPRI Annual Conference Over the past decades,…

tl;dr: You can now serve map files for CoMaps from your own servers, including local ones.

A couple of days ago - in light of Mozilla (once again) doubling down in poor decision making - I was saying how it’s a good idea to donate to alternative projects instead, every time Mozilla fails us.

A couple of days ago, I stumbled over a Mastodon post by @johl, in which he shared vimwiki as his approach for taking notes in vim.

For the first half of November, I’ve been in Peru to do some hikes close to Cusco with friends: First, we did a 5 day trek to the Inca site of Choquequirao and back.

tl;dr: People’s motivations to engage with online citizen science are complex and change over time Apparently, last week iNaturalist released a blog post, demoing their mock-up of how they envision using LLMs to process user-contributed wildlife observati…

This morning I woke up to the notice that my Garmin watch had now collected enough data to provide me with a Health Status insight - a new beta feature I hadn’t heard about before.

Reading RSS/Atom feeds as a way to aggregate and keep track of updated news, blogs etc. has been something that has accompanied me for around 20 years by now.

Last weekend was the 21st birthday of OpenStreetMap (OSM), and with some friends we celebrated the occasion with a little mapping party.

tl;dr: I made a Mastodon Bot that posts updated statistics for the Panoramax federation alongside randomly selected images once a day.

In some ways, there has been little news in the iNaturalist ‘GenAI’ story: Beyond some vague posturing towards “going to work on improving ways to get feedback from the community”, saying (but not demonstrating) that they are ‘listening’, and somehow doing

A couple of days ago, iNaturalist – a citizen science project/platform for observations of living beings in the natural world – announced that they were going to be part of a grant/program of Google to implement generative ‘AI’ (or “GenAI”1) into their to…

tl;dr: Inspired by this conversation started by Ethan Marcotte, I’ve gone ahead and added a small link blog to this website too.

Mastodon works great as a non-algorithmic, timeline oriented social media feed.

Since 2018, I’ve been having some live-updating info snippets about myself in the footer of this website, thanks to a little Personal API Django/Python app that I’ve written.

tl;dr: It’s been around 6 weeks using an ergonomic split keyboard.

In one form or another, this website has had the little widget to display some information about myself at the bottom of the page since 2018.

tl;dr: A long list of what I used to replace iOS apps when I switched to GrapheneOS.

tl;dr: Here’s a small addition to how you can also scramble images so that “AI” scrapers will end up with a poisoned data set Earlier this year, I’ve written about how I setup this static website to not only serve human-readable data, but also “poisoned d…

As this blog post is being published, we are sending out emails to all openSNP users with some news: OpenSNP will be turned off – and with that also delete all the data stored on it – on April 30, 2025.

tl;dr: I made a small contribution to MapComplete that allows adding/editing wayside shrines to OpenStreetMap.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working on migrating the website of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) from being run based on a self-hosted Wordpress blog to Hugo.

Just a small public service announcement: If you’re using the Gemini protocol, my webste (well, in particular the blog posts), are now also accessible via Gemini at gemini://tilde.club/~gedankenstuecke/.

In mid-2024, I’ve moved back to using vim as my main text editor, both for code and prose like this blog post.

tl;dr: Blog posts here can now have a little button at the bottom that can pull in “comments” that are made by replying to a post on the Fediverse (i.e.

Science that’s not just made by and for white men is under more-than-usual attack these days, thanks to the new administration in the USA under the leadership of Trump/Musk, which made a directive to remove all mentions and funding for initiatives relating

On February 1st, thousands of people across cities in Argentina and even abroad marched to defend diversity and protest against the president’s statements made at the Wold Economic Forum.

tl;dr: Here’s a how-to for adding some “AI”-poison to your static site that’s hosted on Codeberg Pages (or GitHub Pages).

A small map-extract of Venado Tuerto over four time points in 2024, showing the addition of buildings and POI. tl;dr: One can now create >2 frames in the OSM comparison GIF.

If you pick dates close to each other, they also make for a great “find the differences”-puzzle. tl;dr: One can now create before/after maps of OpenStreetMap with osm-mapping-party-before-after right in the browser, thanks to MyBinder.