Head of Clouds at http://lightbug.io Also #Wikidata #Wikibase #Wikimedia #OpenSource & #OpenDatahttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3mjyj6nljmy2sLate to “AI” assisted development? Earlier this week, someone asked me if they were perhaps late to making use of AI-assisted development, as they dove into it in the past 2 months (using GitHub Copilot) and are already seeing large gains in a small team in terms of leverage of time. I thought for… https://addshore.com/2026/04/late-to-ai-assisted-development/21 Apr 2026 07:58 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjyj6nljmy2shttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3miegyeunts2vApparently I have a shop with some tshirts on it? shorebits.etsy.com I got bored of buying other peoples31 Mar 2026 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3miegyeunts2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3miefvbfhfg2zEasily monitor your GitHub API limits For one reason or another I have run into GitHub core API limits in the last few weeks, which has generally annoyed me, and leads to some workflows (such as using GitHub Copilot in an IDE) to be broken, even though such things seemingly have their own API… https://addshore.com/2026/03/easily-monitor-your-github-api-limits/31 Mar 2026 14:41 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3miefvbfhfg2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3mhandafvsq2uFixing Wikimedia Commons thumbnail sized (on my blog) As AI crawling and training continues to stress the web, the Wikimedia foundation continues to change various things in their edge rules and internal processes. Recently the Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 was likely one of the… https://addshore.com/2026/03/fixing-wikimedia-commons-thumbnail-sized-on-my-blog/17 Mar 2026 09:18 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhandafvsq2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3mh64mcgsky2dWikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 Historically I'm terrible at post Hackathon write ups, though a few do exist... (#hackathon posts). For the past few days I have been attending the Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 in Arnhem NL with around 70 other people. Around 42 projects… https://addshore.com/2026/03/wikimedia-hackathon-northwestern-europe-2026/16 Mar 2026 09:14 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh64mcgsky2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3meig2zzl4w2kGoogle 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… https://addshore.com/2026/02/google-antigravity-for-wsl/10 Feb 2026 07:14 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3meig2zzl4w2khttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3mdppt3pvi42cVS 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… https://addshore.com/2026/01/vs-code-copilot-agent-vs-google-antigravity-planning/31 Jan 2026 11:32 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdppt3pvi42chttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3md67thr4ik24A 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)… https://addshore.com/2026/01/a-few-days-in-tromso-norway/24 Jan 2026 12:31 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3md67thr4ik24https://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3mc5vkfbhyh27I'm still not back on a boat as I was in 2023... But I have been getting up to some fun things in 2025... https://addshore.com/2026/01/2025-year-review/11 Jan 2026 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mc5vkfbhyh27https://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3m7ody776zh2xEditing 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… https://addshore.com/2025/12/editing-grokipedia-a-first-look/11 Dec 2025 00:47 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7ody776zh2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3m7fhuw362y2dHow 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… https://addshore.com/2025/12/how-much-is-wikibase-suite-and-deploy-used/07 Dec 2025 12:02 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7fhuw362y2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3m4c2quescd2sWikidata 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… https://addshore.com/2025/10/wikidata-map-in-2025/28 Oct 2025 23:14 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4c2quescd2shttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3m46h4sdtpk2gSlop 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… https://addshore.com/2025/10/slop-in-craft-out/27 Oct 2025 12:45 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3m46h4sdtpk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3lymsnbnpas2zI 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 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata_map Who can help? :D12 Sep 2025 08:07 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lymsnbnpas2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3lykw3aqzik2bAlso known as an odd looking seal! [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Sep 2025 14:04 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lykw3aqzik2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3lykvpntm7c2bApparently there is quite the Google takeout delay now, my next export isn't going to start for 2 days...11 Sep 2025 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lykvpntm7c2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3lxoyhbinss2cI just finished generation of an analysis of P31 and P279 usage of Wikidata over time since the beginning. https://addshore.com/2025/08/wikidata-instance-of-and-subclass-of-through-time-p31-p279/31 Aug 2025 11:32 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxoyhbinss2chttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3lvdn7byxg22yWikimedia Commons depicts statements over time! https://addshore.com/2025/07/wikimedia-commons-depicts-statements-over-time/01 Aug 2025 12:21 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvdn7byxg22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3ltueexkeis2sI 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 https://addshore.com/2025/07/ai-code-assistant-comparison-golang-kata-1-july-2025/ #ai #llm #code13 Jul 2025 17:08 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltueexkeis2shttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3lrakjax7lb2vToit: 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… https://addshore.com/2025/06/toit-jag-monitor-proxy/10 Jun 2025 09:14 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrakjax7lb2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3lq2wiunrk72qWikiCrowd 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… https://addshore.com/2025/05/wikicrowd-for-2025/26 May 2025 10:07 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lq2wiunrk72qhttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3lpt245tin22jDammit, now I need to find a different think to power my blog reading and listening lists...23 May 2025 06:50 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpt245tin22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3lliysesbkt2uProfiling 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… https://addshore.com/2025/03/profiling-wikibase-apis-and-import-speed/29 Mar 2025 09:19 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lliysesbkt2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3lla3cmtzj52zThe 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… https://addshore.com/2025/03/the-day-google-almost-lost-my-data/25 Mar 2025 20:10 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lla3cmtzj52zhttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3ljfbprnsd22xMade it to #MWC2025 Time to go and check out the tele2 and Lightbug booth!02 Mar 2025 10:58 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljfbprnsd22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3lja2ky47ks2uI 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 Feb 2025 09:07 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lja2ky47ks2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3lizbf3tmbc2sI'm working, honest!25 Feb 2025 16:20 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lizbf3tmbc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3liok7vvow22mSo, is there a client or web app these days to help to manage X/Twitter, Mastodon and Bluesky in a simple view? :D21 Feb 2025 09:59 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3liok7vvow22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3limz2qmkcv2uVuetify app with Wikimedia OAuth login Do you often find yourself wanting to make a basic (or complex) web app that is client side only and will log users into Wikimedia sites with ease? Me to! I have been trying this every year or so, and it's gradually been getting easier. This year it only took… https://addshore.com/2025/02/vuetify-app-with-wikimedia-oauth-login/20 Feb 2025 19:19 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3limz2qmkcv2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/addshore.bsky.social/post/3lijipo6xxs2wBut as there is nothing here yet, take a look at my recent post! Visualizing Wikibase ecosystem, using wikibase.world https://addshore.com/2025/02/visualizing-wikibase-ecosystem-using-wikibase-world/19 Feb 2025 09:49 +0000at://did:plc:hrmkjbaeyqcjm7tvvujanscu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lijipo6xxs2w