State of the Map 2026: nothing quite like the OpenStreetMap community
Reflections from State of the Map 2026 in Paris: sponsoring and speaking at the global OpenStreetMap conference, and why its community feels unlike any other.
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VivaTech 2026: Robots take the floor, sovereignty takes the stage
One day at VivaTech 2026 in Paris, for its tenth edition: Chinese humanoids that have clearly left the lab, AI that has quietly become plumbing, and sovereignty as the theme nobody had to explain.
Ten days in South Korea, between Seoul and Busan
Ten days exploring Seoul and Busan — royal palaces, hanok villages, high-rises and bullet trains.
AI gives me back the excitement of my early days as a developer
The emergence of LLMs and code generation tools takes me back to the mindset I had thirty years ago, when I was learning to build websites on an internet that was still finding its footing.
Obsidian Quick Note Task: my tiny macOS app to never lose an idea again
I use Obsidian heavily every day, but navigating to the right note to capture a quick idea is already too much friction. So I built a small macOS tool to fix that.