James Milner
Staff Engineer, open source fan, hacking on geospatial in my spare time. Lives in London
- Sounds like Heroku has gone to maintenance mode www.heroku.com/blog/an-upda...
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- Catching Petya talking in the main track about the critical work done at @hotosm.org #FOSDEM
- Dropped by the @maplibre.org booth at #FOSDEM
- Reposted by James MilnerFor speakers who gave a talk. Please check your mail with a link to our review system and review your talk (5 min check to mark the start and finish of you talk and check if the audio quality is ok). The sooner you review your talk, the sooner it will get published.
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- Let's gooooo #FOSDEM
- Here's the jam packed agenda for the geospatial dev room tomorrow at @fosdem.org #FOSDEM
- Here's the jam packed agenda for the geospatial dev room tomorrow at @fosdem.org
- Managed to get quite a cool improvement for Terra Draw today at the airport before catching my flight - opacity support for points and lines across all mapping libraries.Will share a video later 📹😎
- Just arrived in Brussels for #FOSDEM 🇧🇪
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- Reposted by James MilnerPlease welcome @railway.com as the newest member of @opensourcepledge.com 🎉 They rely on OSS projects like @vite.dev, @tanstack.com, @drizzle.team and @tailwindcss.com, and they're doing their part to sustain the ecosystem, from which we all benefit. Read all about it:
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- I'll be at FOSDEM next weekend helping out with the geospatial room
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- Buying and selling property in the UK is so broken
- Reposted by James MilnerHello again, everything is still scary and hard and the tech job market is wild right now, so here's my semi-regular thread of open jobs I've found where your work could make the world better (or at least, not make it worse)
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- One thing I find hard on bluesky is to find more cool people to follow
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- Reposted by James MilnerExcited to share that maplibre-gl-lidar v0.6.0 is now available! This release adds support for the Entwine Point Tile (EPT) format (entwine.io/en/latest/en...), making it possible to stream and visualize billions of LiDAR points directly in the browser with ease and performance.
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- Reposted by James Milnerlearned a little sparql to query wikidata and satiate a curiosity: a graph of all the programming languages and what they influenced query.wikidata.org/index.html#%...
- I've been working a little on Terra Route today and the accompanying drawing mode for Terra Draw. You can use these together to do browser based map routing. I made some performance improvements that I think that even for decent sized areas the route snapping feels instant for the user
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- Reposted by James Milnerprospective Pledge co's: idk it's a lot of money, will it really help with recruiting? prospective employees:
- Haha thanks! You & @chadwhitacre.com & @sentry.io putting so much time & effort & money into @opensourcepledge.com & sponsorships was a big reason why I joined Sentry. It speaks positively and strongly about the company culture and motivations and people!
- Rule of houseplants - the ones you're not so fond of will thrive beyond comprehension and the ones you have a shine for will slowly die
- Seems like a sensible approach given the last 10 years: indieweb.org/POSSE
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- Reposted by James Milner2026 OpenUK Honours list is now live. Congratulations to all included openuk.uk/honours/ #openukhonours #opensource #openuk #opensourceai #opendata #openhardware #openstandards
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- I updated my blog for the first time in a year or so remove the links to Twitter and also to fix some responsive design issues. Now more than ever it feels having some space online that you own and control (as much as is feasibly possible in a cloud first world) is important to maintain.
- I noticed I've been gaining a few new followers over the last several days - not sure exactly where they are coming from, but hello 👋
- Merry Christmas friends ⛄
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- The FOSDEM geospatial dev room schedule is now live: fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
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- Just been looking at the provisional line up for the #FOSDEM geospatial dev room and it's going to be most excellent👌🏻
- Reposted by James MilnerThe handmade, human qualities of your work are more valuable than they've ever been. Don't doubt that for a second.
- A rough couple weeks for React
- A <geolocation> element coming soon? developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-...
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- Reposted by James Milnercould you make it one day without using open source? @vlad.website tried
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- So, who is going to #FOSDEM at the end of Jan?
- A fantastic evening at the House of Commons for the @openuk.bsky.social 2025 Awards ceremony 🏆
- So maybe this has been obvious to a lot of people for a long time, but seems like the npm model is just insecure by default? Someone (or CI) could run 'npm install some-evil-package' and then an unconstrained arbitrary script just runs on their machine unless they explicitly passed --ignore-scripts?
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- This is good fun and very nicely presented - give it a go
- Hello moths, The harvest has arrived: anisota.net/harvest It's like Spotify Wrapped, but for Bluesky and the ATmosphere. 🌾 See your most-used words, discover who you interact with most, explore your posting patterns, and find all sorts of fun insights.
- Reposted by James MilnerTECH STARTUP: We're thrilled to announce our new app which gives you the power to kill anybody in the world TECH STARTUP, A MONTH LATER: We hear you and we understand. Today we're making several significant changes to Anonymurder's terms of use
- Finally verified my Bluesky handle 😎
- Interesting 👀
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- Amazing news - love to see @latest.allmaps.org thrive
- Congratulations to Allmaps (led by @bertspaan.nl & Jules Schoonman) + @iiif.bsky.social on the announcement of this partnership. It's a fantastic step towards a sustainable, open, digital maps infrastructure and data ecosystem. Learn more at allmaps.org/iiif-partner... & iiif.io/news/2025/11...
- Reposted by James Milnerit's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.
