MapTiler Swindle

TLDR; I suppose this is a warning to contributors to OpenStreetMap that while MapTiler make use of our contributions their sole purpose is maximum profiteering from the mapping community. As an active contributor to OpenStreetMap I had a use-case to... » More

Fish Shell Escape Delay

Using the fish shell I needed to increase a timeout to allow me to use Esc-. keyboard sequence to print the last argument from the previous line: Add the following line to ~/.config/fish/fish_variables to fix the problem: SETUVAR... » More

Run a Linux Mint Web App from the CLI

I wanted to run 4-5 applications based on a keyboard shortcut on Linux Mint. The shortcut key runs a shell script that launches the applications I want for that key press. Some of the applications Creating the keyboard shortcut is straight-forward... » More

Number 1

I was number 1 most active mapper in the UK charts today due to my contributions in County Down and East Belfast over the last few months. I can't see that continuing as another Irish mapper b-unicycling is sure to take top spot soon.

Python Threads Querying CouchDB

With a list of 500,000 CouchDB endpoints to hit for info I wanted to speed up the process. There are multiple ways to do that but queues and threads worked fine for me. import queue import threading from cloudant.client import Cloudant # Replace the... » More

Removing template_file from terraform state

I've run into this issue a few times so recording here for future reference. template_file has been deprecated in terraform but I occasionally perform a terraform init before realising that there is a template_file command in the code. I get the... » More

Add Auth to Prometheus Container

Using docker-compose to run a prometheus container that I wanted basic auth added to. My docker-compose file is shown below: version: '3' volumes: prometheus-data: driver: local services: prometheus: image: prom/prometheus:latest... » More

Add AWS CLI to Alpine Linux

Linux Voice Issue 1 I seem to regularly look this one so adding it here for future reference. apk add --no-cache python3 py3-pip && pip3 install --upgrade pip && pip3 install --no-cache-dir awscli && rm -rf /var/cache/apk/*