James Milner
Staff Engineer, open source fan, hacking on geospatial in my spare time. Lives in London
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- Happy Birthday OSGeo! Celebrating 20 years of Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial 2026-02-04 Thank you to everyone who has been part of this endeavour over the last 20 years. We invite you to celebrate with us, to share memories & to look ahead to […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
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- The EC is putting together an initiative to develop their strategy for open digital ecosystems. Given its potential to push forward the development and funding of open-source software in Europe and beyond, Igalia submitted a response with some suggestions. Read more: www.igalia.com/2026/02/03/I...
- yes and notably - especially in the case of code - this liability is owned by the people being encouraged to use the tool, not by the people doing the encouraging
- 🎉 Excited to share that my paper has been published in the Journal of Open Source Software! 📄 "GeoAI: A Python package for integrating artificial intelligence with geospatial data analysis and visualization"
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- Introducing 𝐀𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐜-𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐅, a new library for reading GeoTIFFs and COGs. developmentseed.org/async-geotif... - Fast, with a Rust core - Uses a non-blocking thread pool for image decoding - Integrates with NumPy, PyProj, Affine & Morecantile - Remote data support with Obstore - No GDAL dependency
- Repo: github.com/developments... Built at @developmentseed.org
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- Was a brilliant evening. I’d you haven’t been to a #geomob yet, get along to one in a city near you
- ✂️ Knip v5.83.0 is out → New Expressive Code plugin by @cylewaitfor.it 🫶 → Ton of fixes → Some of your new, very kind testimonials: knip.dev#dont-just-ta... 🧡 → Improved docs, new Config Hints: knip.dev/reference/co... → Updated sponsors page: knip.dev/sponsors Changelog: github.com/webpro-nl/kn...
- Milestone! 1K GitHub Stars on repo.npmx.dev 🌟
- 📯📯📯 The call for workshop 💻 submissions @foss4geurope is open! 👉 talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-europe-2026-…
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- Just doubled @voidzero.dev 's sponsorship to @patak.dev to $2k/mo. Excited to have you back, and proud to be supporting your work of improving the JS ecosystem.
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- The @e18e.dev project, which systematically speeds up the Node.js ecosystem, has published its 2025 results. Invisible heroes who make life better for all of us. They need our support. e18e.dev/blog/the-yea...
- For 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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- FOSS4G 2026 Travel Grant Program is Now Open 2026.foss4g.org/en/register/travel-… #foss4g #osgeo #GISChat
- what I love most about open source is the community 😊 ... and I think that's what makes nuxt and vite so special to everyone involved ❤️ I'm glad @patak.dev is willing to join me as a steward of npmx 🙏
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- Now listening to @vlad.website talk about 👻 phantom dependencies in the context of funding initiatives like @opensourcepledge.com #FOSDEM
- 𝗪𝗲’𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘀! HOT Tech Team colleagues Petya Kangalova and Sam Woodcock are connecting with the global open-source community at @fosdem.org 2026. If you’re attending FOSDEM, come say hello, We’d love to connect.
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- Are you coming to #FOSDEM in Brussels? Some of our CoMaps contributors will be there too! They are also in our free-form Matrix room at #CoMaps_EN_Cafe:matrix.org, if you want schedule to meet up! You might also be able to find some CoMaps stickers at the stand of our friends from Codeberg
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- FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. Just turn up and join this weekend! fosdem.org/2026/ #openuk #fosdem #opensource
- npmx don't tell anyone 🤫
- Come to my FOSDEM talk on Saturday to hear a terrifying tale about _phantom dependencies_! 👻
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- It’s happening. Yarn 6 Preview is here 💫 Yes, we rewrote it in Rust 🦀⚡️ I'm incredibly excited for the future of our beloved package manager. See the benchmarks and plans in our latest post:
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- RE: fosstodon.org/@foss4geurope/11596… 🗞️ Wonderful piece of news today! ✨ The European 🇪🇺 ➕ FOSS4G is coming to Timișoara 🇷🇴 this summer! The @OSS4gEO team will definitely be there!
- 🔥 amazing PR just merged from @wlls.dev using @deno.land's docs package to generate docs for any package on the npm registry ....
- We’ll be out in force at @fosdem.org '26 at the end of this week, with eight talks on a wide variety of topics—the latest on @servo.org, GStreamer work, graphics stacks, MathML interop, WebAssembly runtimes, handing out Servo stickers, and more! www.igalia.com/2026/01/26/I...
- 𝗪𝗲’𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 @fosdem.org! HOT Tech Team colleagues, Petya Kangalova and Sam Woodcock, will be in Brussels from 𝟯𝟭 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 – 𝟭 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 to connect, collaborate, and share ideas with the global open-source community. Learn more about the event and schedule: fosdem.org/2026/
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