Over the past year, #MagicalTrash tracked a 14% increase in trash can changes, many driven by attraction openings - and published 1,600+ social media posts to discuss. Learn something new on this #TrashCanTuesday with the 5th annual Magical Trash Year-in-Review: https://buff.ly/3NL2YHA
In 2023 I had 50 mapping days with 344 changesets in OpenStreetMap. That's the third fewest mapping days since I started mapping in 2017, but not that far away from my normal amount of days.
In 2023 I had 80 contributions to 32 different projects on GitHub. Double the amount I had the year before, and more than I've had in any other single year since I started using GH in 2010. My second highest was 66 in 2016. And I still don't know any more code than a tiny bit of HTML/CSS. My contributions are exclusively bug reports and feature requests. I really do think they help, and that I can bring an important perspective from a non-coder.
In 2023 I also contributed to #OpenStreetMap in another way than editing the map. Trough #MapSwipe I helped organizations like Médecins Sans Frontières, who needes maps of unmapped areas to help people there, by looking trough satellite photos and marking areas with houses or roads, or stuff like that.
A really easy way to help the world while waiting for something or while on the toilet. Give it a try!
I swiped 6.8k times, for a total of 5h 57m, mostly on Wednesdays.
In 2023 I, for the first time IIRC, filled my quota of tax deductible charitable giving. Unfortunately the amount was reduced from 50k to 25k NOK a few years ago
My donations goes towards direct money transfers to poor people in poor countries trough GiveDirectly and fight malaria trough Against Malaria Foundation and Malaria Consortium, making lives better, maybe even saving some
Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott reviews the best of the weekend section from 2023’s offerings in The Wild Hunt, including the most popular article of the year, Meg Elison’s “Barbie is the new Inanna.”
🎉 Celebrating another year of advancing online privacy. From launching Mullvad Browser to Tor Browser's enhanced accessibility to new anti-censorship tools, thanks to our incredible community for making the internet more secure and private. #YearInReview
Firstly, my deep, deep gratitude and thanks to everyone who's been supporting the project and my work over the past year(s), especially fellow fedi people: @avi, @jeffpalmer, @guidoschmidt, @made, @lurvey, @daeinc, @Yura, @n_senz_, @dawid and others (pls forgive non-exhaustive list!).
96 releases done in 2023 (i.e. every 3.6 days on average)
188 projects/packages (+12 this year)
151 example projects (+32 this year)
3,865 source files
144,432 lines of code
54,155 docs/comments (37% or 2.66 lines of code-to-comment ratio)
198,587 total SLOC
Readme files (for all 188 packages):
49,580 total words
189,978 lines
A lot of activity this year was spent on adding/improving documentation & creating new examples to illustrate general usage patterns. From August till October I published 30 chapters of #HowToThing aka heavily commented code examples & mini-tutorials, incl. ~20 new example projects which are now part of the monorepo. Just like the overall project scope, these chapters covered anything from audio synthesis, data transformations, DSLs, geometry, generative art/design, GIS, image processing, Mastodon client, reactive UIs (NOT using React!), shaders, other visualizations and more... Check out the hashtag to view them (full list is also part of the thi.ng/umbrella readme).
It is the time of year when I enjoy reading your annual summaries on your personal websites. This year is quieter with your reviews than a year before. If you published one, send it my way, please.
In 2023, I made almost 200 cartoons. On this last day of the year here are some of my favorite ones. I tried to make a selection based on the coverage of different topics and how pleased I was with the final result.