2024-10-01
10 分钟OpenFreeMap puts OpenStreetMap data on your website for free, Fatih Arslan builds a Dieter Rams inspired iPhone dock, Joseph Gentle thinks the Rust programming language feels like a first-gen product & the web dev community is debating the viability of Web Components once again.
What up nerds?
Shabboi I'm Jared and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, September 30, 2024.
So the WordPress mess, aka implosion is almost too much for me to pick a single canonical link to summarize it, but I also don't want to do an entire episode about that one story.
So what's a guide to do?
I know I'll punt it entirely to the bottom of the newsletter, but make up for it with a rock solid meme plus an unordered list of links to review.
We're containing the WordPress mess to today's newsletter link in the show notes the audio version remains squeaky clean.
Okay, let's get into the rest of the news.
Display custom maps on your website for free.
Open Free Map takes map data from OpenStreetMap and serves up the necessary tiles in various styles for anyone to render them on their website or app for $0.
Kinda amazing.
Using our public instance is completely free.
There are no limits on the number of map views or requests.
There's no registration, no user database, no API keys, and no cookies.
We aim to cover the running costs of our public instance through donations.
End quote that sounds almost too good to be true, and it probably is unless people step up with recurring donations.
However, the services creator Zolt Aero has taken a few steps to make sure it's not prohibitively expensive.
Quote There is no tile server running, only nginx serving a butterfs image with 300 million hard linked files.
This was my idea.
I haven't read about anyone else doing this in production, but it works really well.
There is no cloud, just dedicated servers.