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@addshore

Head of Clouds at http://lightbug.io Also #Wikidata #Wikibase #Wikimedia #OpenSource & #OpenData

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Google Antigravity for WSL If you are anything like me, you might have given Google Antigravity a go, as I did in a recent post, and decided that there is not yet any WSL support given the extension marketplace specifically says This extension is not compatible with Antigravity. However... it turns out that even if this is the case, the Remote-WSL: Connect to WSL…

Google Antigravity for WSL

If you are anything like me, you might have given Google Antigravity a go, as I did in a recent post, and decided that there is not yet any WSL support given the extension marketplace specifically says This extension is not compatible with Antigravity. However... it…

10.02.2026 07:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
VS Code Copilot (Agent) vs Google Antigravity (Planning) Back in July 2025 I did a little comparison of various AI code assistants with a small Golang kata (with some content stripped out), and I'm back for a second attempt using the same kata, but focusing on some of the newer Copilot models, as well as cloud agents, and a run through with Google Antigravity. All runs have been screen recorded, very generic time metrics extracted, and the code is also all up in branches in the code repo if you are curious...

VS Code Copilot (Agent) vs Google Antigravity (Planning)

Back in July 2025 I did a little comparison of various AI code assistants with a small Golang kata (with some content stripped out), and I'm back for a second attempt using the same kata, but focusing on some of the newer Copilot models, as…

31.01.2026 11:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A few days in Tromsø, Norway It's been a long old while since I have written a travel related post, most recently would be my "digital nomad" boat experience for a year, and before that probably a very specific post on travelling from Santa Elena (Monteverde, Costa Rica) to Granada (Nicaragua) which was quite popular. I now know someone that Is about to head to Tromsø, Norway, and I was about to start writing up a private Google doc to share with what we did, how we did it, what it cost and some thoughts, but let's turn it into a blog post instead!

A few days in Tromsø, Norway

It's been a long old while since I have written a travel related post, most recently would be my "digital nomad" boat experience for a year, and before that probably a very specific post on travelling from Santa Elena (Monteverde, Costa Rica) to Granada (Nicaragua)…

24.01.2026 12:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
2025 Year Review Well, I'm still not back on a boat as I was in 2023... Where to start... Lightbug I havn't written a whole lot about Lightbug yet on this blog, but its still been a fun year of new developments at, and I think it's time to share some of them with pictures 😉 We released small handheld RTK device, with programmable ESP32 onboard, giving high precision accuracy, in a nice small package.

I'm still not back on a boat as I was in 2023... But I have been getting up to some fun things in 2025...

11.01.2026 16:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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And although Grok was the one that removed the content in the first place, Grok also added it back once I told it that it was being silly

11.12.2025 00:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Small tweaks seemed to work rather well

11.12.2025 00:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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It really struggled and refused to fix formatting issues

11.12.2025 00:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Editing Grokipedia, a first look As a long time editor and developer in the Wikipedia and Wikimedia space, I'm of course sceptical about what Grokipedia is trying to be, and if it stands any chance of success. it may struggle to deliver the resilience, transparency, and community processes that keep projects like Wikipedia thriving, and in the early weeks the untouchable AI generated content was certainly not going to work moving forward.

Editing Grokipedia, a first look

As a long time editor and developer in the Wikipedia and Wikimedia space, I'm of course sceptical about what Grokipedia is trying to be, and if it stands any chance of success. it may struggle to deliver the resilience, transparency, and community processes that…

11.12.2025 00:47 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
How much is Wikibase Suite (and deploy) used At the start of this year, I spent some time visualizing the Wikibase ecosystem by making use of the data that has been collected on wikibase.world. As part of that, I tried to focus in on Wikibase Suite, trying to determine how many possible installations there were making use of the container images, and or the newer Wikibase Suite Deploy…

How much is Wikibase Suite (and deploy) used

At the start of this year, I spent some time visualizing the Wikibase ecosystem by making use of the data that has been collected on wikibase.world. As part of that, I tried to focus in on Wikibase Suite, trying to determine how many possible…

07.12.2025 12:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wikidata Map in 2025 Another year, another map, and another Birthday for Wikidata. Last generated in 2024 by @tarrow and @outdooracorn, this year I have put the work in just ahead of the 13th Wikidata birthday to have a look at what's changed in terms of items with coordinates this past year on Wikidata. And here it is! But really you need to look at the diff between previous years to see what has changed!

Wikidata Map in 2025

Another year, another map, and another Birthday for Wikidata. Last generated in 2024 by @tarrow and @outdooracorn, this year I have put the work in just ahead of the 13th Wikidata birthday to have a look at what's changed in terms of items with coordinates this past year on…

28.10.2025 23:14 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Slop in, craft out? Earlier today, I sent this absolutely perfectly crafted piece of slop into GitHub Copilot... Right, but i want thje patche sot be / and /* always And as I already expected, due to using these LLM based coding agents and assistants continually throughout their evolution, the resulting change was exactly what I wanted, despite the poor instructions. Now, I'm sure there is actually some difference, and likely this depends on the relevance of the typoed areas, and how often such typos might also appear in training data.

Slop in, craft out?

Earlier today, I sent this absolutely perfectly crafted piece of slop into GitHub Copilot... Right, but i want thje patche sot be / and /* always And as I already expected, due to using these LLM based coding agents and assistants continually throughout their evolution, the…

27.10.2025 12:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Wikidata map - Wikimedia Commons

I have a bunch of data (Wikidata item locations monthly since the dawn of time)
And I want to make map tiles, served in a web app, for nice display, also with a sort of heatmap view the more you zoom our
Akin to commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidat...
Who can help? :D

12.09.2025 08:07 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Also known as an odd looking seal!

11.09.2025 14:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Apparently there is quite the Google takeout delay now, my next export isn't going to start for 2 days...

11.09.2025 13:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe I should generate a breakdown of the top 20 things in that "other" grouping too!

01.09.2025 08:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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This includes a new pie chart with this new method for August 2025
Showing scholarly articles as ~35% (though there will be some double counting)
Interesting to see village of the People's Republic of China (Q13100073) makes it into the top 20!

31.08.2025 11:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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I just finished generation of an analysis of P31 and P279 usage of Wikidata over time since the beginning.
addshore.com/2025/08/wiki...

31.08.2025 11:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Apparently it doesn't want to show the image!

01.08.2025 12:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Wikimedia Commons Depicts statements over time Wikimedia Commons now uses Structured Data on Commons (SDC) to make media information multilingual and machine-readable. A core part of SDC is the ‘depicts’ statement (P180), which iden…

Wikimedia Commons depicts statements over time!
addshore.com/2025/07/wiki...

01.08.2025 12:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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AI Code assistant experience comparison (golang-kata-1) If you’re reading this, and thinking about trying an IDE integrated coding agent, or thinking about switching, maybe stick around, have a read and watch some of the videos. There is at least …

I spent over 6 hours and some number of $ comparing 9 different coding assistant and language model combinations (including video recordings) so that you don't have to!

The user experience really differs between the coding tools and the models

addshore.com/2025/07/ai-c...

#ai #llm #code

13.07.2025 17:08 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Toit: jag monitor –proxy While developing on ESP32 boards at Lightbug on some of our newer products, I have repeatedly wanted to run Toit and Jaguar without WiFi enabled during a development setting. Either to have WiFi off to keep power consumption lower, turn off the default network so that I can make use of a secondary network or set up my own hotspot, and most recently, so that I can quickly iterate while using…

Toit: jag monitor –proxy

While developing on ESP32 boards at Lightbug on some of our newer products, I have repeatedly wanted to run Toit and Jaguar without WiFi enabled during a development setting. Either to have WiFi off to keep power consumption lower, turn off the default network so that I…

10.06.2025 09:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
WikiCrowd for 2025 I wrote the first version of WikiCrowd back in 2022 and haven't really iterated on it much since, beyond adding the odd new set of image categories, and removing features that I decided were not optimum. At the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon however, WikiCrowd came up as both an entertaining little game to show people during beers, and also a project similar (ish) to something…

WikiCrowd for 2025

I wrote the first version of WikiCrowd back in 2022 and haven't really iterated on it much since, beyond adding the odd new set of image categories, and removing features that I decided were not optimum. At the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon however, WikiCrowd came up as both an…

26.05.2025 10:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Dammit, now I need to find a different think to power my blog reading and listening lists...

23.05.2025 06:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Profiling Wikibase APIs and import speed There has been some recent chat once again on the Wikibase telegram groups around importing, and the best approach to import a large amount of data into a Wikibase instance. 2 years ago I started a little GitHub project aimed at profiling the speed of loading using the action API, and various settings, DB versions etc, as well as trying out a bulk load API.

Profiling Wikibase APIs and import speed

There has been some recent chat once again on the Wikibase telegram groups around importing, and the best approach to import a large amount of data into a Wikibase instance. 2 years ago I started a little GitHub project aimed at profiling the speed of…

29.03.2025 09:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The day Google (almost) lost my data… On the morning of 22nd March 2025 I received and read an email from Google giving me an "update" on my "Google Maps Timeline", little did I know this was actually telling me they had just lost some of my data... The email read... We briefly experienced a technical issue that caused the deletion of Timeline data for some people. We're reaching out as your account may have been impacted.

The day Google (almost) lost my data…

On the morning of 22nd March 2025 I received and read an email from Google giving me an "update" on my "Google Maps Timeline", little did I know this was actually telling me they had just lost some of my data... The email read... We briefly experienced a…

25.03.2025 20:10 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Made it to #MWC2025
Time to go and check out the tele2 and Lightbug booth!

02.03.2025 10:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have gone deep on an X thread about Wikipedia,
Please someone come and check on me in a few days and make sure it have slept 🤣

28.02.2025 09:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I'm working, honest!

25.02.2025 16:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Woo!

25.02.2025 12:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So, is there a client or web app these days to help to manage X/Twitter, Mastodon and Bluesky in a simple view? :D

21.02.2025 09:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0