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Vertical Forest, Milan

I recently stumbled upon the “Vertical Forest” (ital. Bosco Verticale) in Milan, two award-winning skyscrapers. Don’t they look cool?

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Covid-19 statistics for South Africa

A very useful overview for tracking Coronavirus cases in South Africa.

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The filming location database is online!

After many hours of work, the filming location database is finally online. It’s an open and free database of filming locations: the data is licensed under the ODbL.

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OpenStreetMap: Updated Esri World Imagery in Pretoria

Exciting news for mappers in Pretoria (as myself): the Esri World Imagery was recently updated to a much sharper, more detailed version. This makes mapping way more pleasant and reliable. Awesome!

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Ethical Tech Giving Guide

Giving presents to someone who cares about Soft- and Hardware Freedom is difficult (I know my wife struggles). The Free Software Foundation’s Ethical Tech Giving Guide can help you to find the perfect gift.

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State of the Map 2020 in Cape Town

It’s official: the coming State of the Map is set in Cape Town!

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Does money make you mean?

Paul Piff is a social psychologist, talking about his research on how people behave when they feel wealthy.

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Sony Xperia XA2: successfully update LineageOS 16.0

Updating LineageOS 16.0 on your Sony Xperia XA2 can result in no network, bluetooth and Wi-Fi. It’s a common problem, but there is a solution: update the firmware, but to an older version than 50.2.A.0.*. After that, updating to newer LineageOS versions won’t be a problem anymore. Here’s a step-by-step guide how it worked for me.

Note: If you make a ...

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Poison City Brewing

Probably the best craft beer I had so far in South Africa. Worth the mention.