James Westman 🦣 @[email protected]

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[James Westman 🦣 @[email protected] @FlyingPiMonster]

Highway shields in libshumate! #GNOME

[James Westman 🦣 @[email protected] @FlyingPiMonster]

ICYMI I've been working on a map style for GNOME/libshumate: https://t.co/DNXJcZWAeJ Let me know what you think!

Also, more discussion over here -> https://t.co/Al5t5kAUlw

[James Westman 🦣 @[email protected] @FlyingPiMonster]

huh, looks like it is. weird

[James Westman 🦣 @[email protected] @FlyingPiMonster]

Have to try this for myself, as people are saying it's not working. https://t.co/gO6f2V4VA1

[James Westman 🦣 @[email protected] @FlyingPiMonster]

In my experience, and my circle of interests--not saying this is universal--that has reversed recently. All the interesting discussions are on Mastodon. My Twitter feed is dead, and half the posts I do see are meta commentary on Twitter.

[James Westman 🦣 @[email protected] @FlyingPiMonster]

They said Mastodon would never take off because of the network effect--everyone's on Twitter because everyone else is on Twitter. A new network won't take off because with few people on it, it'll be boring, which will discourage people from using it.

[James Westman 🦣 @[email protected] @FlyingPiMonster]

My Mastodon account, icymi: https://t.co/oBKUo728cH

[GTK and friends @GTKtoolkit]

If you want to keep up with the news about GTK, you can now follow us on Mastodon: https://t.co/bPW8D5PtGt

[James Westman 🦣 @[email protected] @FlyingPiMonster]

@PKD667 @hergertme I think the point of this is atomic refcounting

[James Westman 🦣 @[email protected] @FlyingPiMonster]

One year ago yesterday, according to my journal, I stayed up way too late working on a parser for a new little markup language for GTK. So happy birthday blueprint-compiler! 🎂

[James Westman 🦣 @[email protected] @FlyingPiMonster]

Helping me write vector tile code.

[James Westman 🦣 @[email protected] @FlyingPiMonster]

What's your favorite dad joke?

[James Westman 🦣 @[email protected] @FlyingPiMonster]

@mlundblad Awesome to see several years of planning and work come together! Feels like ages ago that you first forked libshumate from libchamplain.

[James Westman 🦣 @[email protected] @FlyingPiMonster]

This. I don't think "web3" is the future, but even if it is, *I don't want to live in that future*. That, I think, is the disconnect between Web3 people and Free Software people.

[Matthew Miller (@[email protected]) @mattdm]

Open source is about the amazing opportunities created by digital abundance. Fantasies of digital scarcity (in whatever form) are inherently opposed to what we're building.

[James Westman 🦣 @[email protected] @FlyingPiMonster]

Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. You can see 7 US states from here!

[James Westman 🦣 @[email protected] @FlyingPiMonster]

@tobias_bernard aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!

sincerely, a libshumate contributor

[James Westman 🦣 @[email protected] @FlyingPiMonster]

Thank you for all your hard work maintaining & improving Maps!

[James Westman 🦣 @[email protected] @FlyingPiMonster]

libshumate's vector tile renderer now supports labels! https://t.co/9JYG2evsMr

[James Westman 🦣 @[email protected] @FlyingPiMonster]

@CassidyJames Awesome read, thanks for sharing! Now I must cope with the irresistible urge to start a new side project.

[James Westman 🦣 @[email protected] @FlyingPiMonster]

@CassidyJames If you reload the project it should pick it up. You can also switch build systems in the build prefs page.